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The Influence Of Academic Pressure And Framing Effect On Uncertain Decision-making Of Middle School Students

Posted on:2020-08-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H R GaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2417330578961812Subject:Education
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Many decisions are made under pressure,and even the decision situation itself can cause pressure.Therefore,pressure and decision are closely related,and this interaction exists not only in the cognitive field,but also in the behavioral field(Starcke&Brand,2012).Adolescence is a "stormy"time with lots of stress.With the imbalance of their physical and psychological development,there will be a series of risky behaviors and irrational decisions,which will not only bring harm to teenagers themselves,but also hinder the pace of educational development.Researchers have been exploring the internal influencing mechanism of irrational decision-making by adolescents,whether adolescents will consider the consequences of behaviors when making current decisions,and whether they prefer deterministic decision-making or uncertain decision-making.The framing effect of decision-making has also attracted researchers' attention.In addition,it is found that inhibition control is an important factor affecting risk decision-making(Lynam,1996;Utendale,2011),the higher the inhibitory control is,the lower the risk-free decision-making will be.Then,in the context of academic pressure,whether the influence of inhibitory control on uncertain decision-making still exists.So far,the researchers from the perspective of family education,school education comprehensively examines the cognition,emotion,personality and so on various aspects for teenagers to make uncertainty decision-making,the influence of teenagers decisions are mostly under pressure situation(Buckert,2014),then the pressure from school education to teenagers how to impact on the uncertainty of decision-making.Framework of decision-making effect refers to the decision situation will affect the expression of individual decisions,in the middle school students academic stress situation,decision whether there is a framing and framing the applicable scope of the study hardly,this research attempts to discusses this problem,namely under different expected returns,middle school students'uncertainty about whether the decision framework effect is different.This study attempts to explore the internal mechanism of decision making to answer which type of individuals are more inclined to make uncertain decisions and whether inhibition and control will affect the relationship between academic pressure and decision-making behavior.This study with 392 high school students as subjects,the uncertainty decision-making can be divided into risk decision and ambiguity decision,to academic stress scale,the GO/no GO task,N-Back closure and tools for test,probe academic pressures and the effect of the framework for uncertainty decision-making mechanism,the influence of inhibitory control and adjustment or mediation role of working memory.Research findings:(1)With the growth of middle school students' grades,their academic pressure also shows a trend of gradual increase.(2)Academic pressure and framing effect have significant influence on uncertain decision making.Academic pressure can positively predict ambiguity decision making,but has no significant effect on risk decision prediction.Under high and low academic pressure,uncertain decision making has obvious frame effect,that is,under the benefit frame,uncertain decision behavior is higher,while under the loss frame,uncertain decision making is lower.With the increase of academic pressure,the frame effect of ambiguity decision making is stronger than that of risk decision making.(3)Inhibitory control has no moderating effect on academic pressure and risk decision-making under different frameworks;Inhibition control plays a moderating role between academic pressure and ambiguity decision-making under different frameworks,that is,with the increase of academic pressure,adolescents make more ambiguity decisions,but for individuals with high inhibition control,the increase rate is significantly lower than that of individuals with low inhibition control.
Keywords/Search Tags:academic pressure, framing effect, ambiguity decision-making, inhibition control
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