The Resilience Of The Yi Self-affirmation To Inter-group Threats

Social psychology services refer to the use of psychological strategies to solve social governance problems,such as social mentality cultivation,social psychological counseling,social expectation management,inter-group relationship improvement,and harmonious society construction.As a multi-ethnic country,ethnic relations influence social stability and national unity.The construction of minority psychological service systems is the key to maintain harmonious coexistence among ethnic groups.The exchanges between different ethnic groups become more frequent when the cross-regional migration of ethnic minorities entered an active period,and inter-group threats are social problems that are difficult to avoid during the process of communication.According to self-affirmation theory,individuals' self-integration can be maintained by affirming other fields,and the negative impact of inter-group threats can be eliminated.This study would integrate the theory and research paradigm of inter-group threats and self-affirmation from the perspective of social psychological services,and explore the mechanism of Yi self-affirmation against inter-group threats.Ethnic social psychological services provide empirical support to promote threat response,stress management and social adaptation of ethnic minorities.Study 1 first selected self-affirmation questionnaire,life stress scale and national identity scale to explore the relationship between Yi self-affirmation and stress and national identity,and to understand whether Yi self-affirmation has the effect of coping threat,relieving stress and promoting group identity.Study 2 used the classical paradigm of self-affirmation,and examines the effect of individual-self affirmation against inter-group threat among Yi adolescents.Study 3 also used the same paradigm to examine the effect of Jiazhi-self affirmation against the inter-group threats.The results showed that the self-affirmation of Yi youths was at a moderately low level,and their self-affirmation had a significant correlation with national identityand life stress.Self-affirmation and national identity have predictive effects on life stress.Both the individual and Jiazhi self-affirmation could offset the negative impact of inter-group threats on cognitive ability.Generally,self-affirmation is an important psychological resource for Yi youths to resist inter-group threats.In particular,the unique Jiazhi-self of Yi people can reduce the impact of inter-group threats on individual cognitive ability.Through the above research results,this study proposed some countermeasures and suggestions for the construction of social psychological services in ethnic colleges and ethnic communities.In ethnic colleges and universities,the school's psychological services should carry out national unity education activities and national culture courses,give play to the role model of minority teachers,attach importance to the self-affirmation training of all ethnic groups,and strengthen the study of national and cultural psychology.In multi-ethnic communities,community psychological services should establish a multi-ethnic cultural exchange platform,strengthen professionals who are familiar with psychology and national culture,explore the social adaptation function of minority cultures,and cultivate and enhance the self-esteem and self-confidence of compatriots of all ethnic groups.In short,the construction of community psychological services should actively study and explore the psychological construction basing on psychological and behavioral characteristics of ethnic minorities,cultivate and create an optimistic social mentality,and build a harmonious society in which all ethnic groups blend together.