The Relationship Between Machiavellianism, Social Anxiety And Aloneness In Primary School Students

Recently, people pay more attention to machiavellian culture, Machiavellianism is affecting interpersonal relationship. Pupils' mind development is in a accelerating period, Machiavellianism has an important influence on the peer relationships and individual development of mind. Social anxiety and aloneness are investigated with Machiavellianism in this study. Then presenting some opinions on developing a healthy consciousness of machiavellianism, improving peer relationships and reducing the level of aloneness according to the results of this research.In this research, 450 pupils from grade three to six are selected, who are from Zheng Zhou and Kai Feng,to explore the relationship of Machiavellianism, asocial anxiety and aloneness. The results of this research are shown as follows:Firstly, Machiavellianism of pupils is not obvious overall; Machiavellianism of pupils from different genders is significantly different, and boys get higher scores; Machiavellianism of pupils from different grades is not significantly different but in dimension of dishonesty, and the students of grade six are the highest; Machiavellianism of pupils is significantly different on the class leader factor; Machiavellianism of pupils is significantly different on the one child factor.Secondly, more than quarter pupils may have the social anxiety, social anxiety of pupils from different genders is not significantly different; social anxiety of pupils from different grades is significantly different, the level of social anxiety falls first and rises later with the grade rising, and the grade four is a turning point; social anxiety of pupils is significantly different on the class leader factor; social anxiety of pupils is not significantly different on the one child factor.Thirdly, aloneness of pupils is overall low; aloneness of pupils from different genders is not significantly different; aloneness of pupils from different grades is significantly different, and the level of aloneness falls with the grade rises, grade three has the highest level of aloneness, grade six has the highest level of aloneness; aloneness of pupils is different on the one child factor, and the difference is marginally significant; aloneness of pupils is significantly different on the class leader factor.Fourthly, there are significant positive correlations between Machiavellianism and social anxiety, significant positive correlations between Machiavellianism and aloneness, significant positive correlations between aloneness and social anxiety of pupils.Lastly, pupils social anxiety is a partial mediator between Machiavellianism and aloneness.