The Impacts Of Emotions And Framing Effect On College Students’ Risk-taking Behavior

This study attempted to explore the characteristics of risk-taking behaviors of college students under different emotions and frame conditions,so as to enrich the research of college students’ risk-taking behaviors and provide theoretical guidance for the formulation of relevant interventions.This study randomly selected 600 undergraduates from the Fuzhou University City area and used the Balloon Analogue Risk Task(BART)paradigm to investigate the effects of emotional valence,specific negative emotions,and emotional regulation strategies on their risk-taking behaviors under different frame conditions.The specific research results are as follows:1.Study 1 explored the effects of emotional valence and framing effect on college students’ risk-taking behaviors.The results showed that there was an interaction between the effects of emotional valence and framing effect on the risk behavior of college students.The risk-taking behaviors of positive emotion groups were not affected by frame effects,while the risk-taking behaviors of neutral emotion groups and negative emotion groups were affected by framing effect.And the negative emotion group had a reversal of the framing effect.2.Study 2 explored the effects of specific emotion types and framing effects on college students’ risk-taking behaviors.The results indicated that:(1)The interaction between specific negative emotions and framing effects on college students’ risk-taking behaviors was shown as: while the sad emotion group’s risk-taking behaviors were not affected by the framing effect,the neutral,fear,and anger emotion groups’ risk-taking behaviors were all affected by framing effect,among which the anger emotion group’s risk-taking behavior reversed the framing effect.(2)As to different impacts brought by different negative emotions on the risk-taking behaviors of college students,both the angry and the fear emotion group were more risky than the sad emotion one.3.Study 3 explored that under conditions induced by fear,the emotional regulation strategies and framing effect exert on the risk-taking behaviors of college students.The results showed that within the interaction between the emotion regulation strategies and framing effect.The expression suppression group were not affected by the framing effects,while the non-emotional adjustment group and cognitive re-evaluation group were affected.Furthermore,the reassessment team’s risk-taking behavior reversed the framing effect.