Different Nationalities Adolescents' Social Representations Of China

This study is going to explore Chinese different nationalities adolescents' knowledge and appraisal of china from the perspective of social representations theory. The study includes two research, one research usesd the questionnaire to inspect 1101 adolescents' social representations of china, the adolescents are from the Han nationality, the Tibetan minority, the Mongolian minority, the Zhuang minority, the Uigur minority and Tujia minority. Another research usesd Implicit Association Test(IAT) to test adolescents' appraisal deviation of china.The study found that adolescent's representations of china is multi-dimensional, including knowledge dimension and appraisal dimension . There are resources, culture and politics-economics dimensions in the knowledge representions of china.There are integrated national power, social visage and culture resources dimensions in the appraisal representions of china. About the knowledge representions of china, adolescents know more about the culture of china, know little about the politics and economics of china. The appraisal representions of china is positive on the whole.On the knowledge representions of china, the primary students focus on the natural resources, especially the beautiful scenery and rich product resources. The junior high school students focus on Chinese characteristic and history. The senior high school students focus on modern culture, especially the education and physical culture. The university students focus on the Chinese politics and economics.There are magnificent difference from age groups about the appraisal representions of china, the primary students are the most positive.Different nationalities adolescents' knowledge representions of china are different. The minority focus on Chinese natural resources and national situation, especially their minority identity. Han nationality students focus on Chinese traditional culture and physical culture.Different nationalities adolescents' appraisal representions of china are different magnificent. The Uigur minority and Tujia minority are more positive than other nationalities. The male students pay more attention to Chinese histiry and political power, and the female students are more positive when representing china. The parents' jobs and the family location effect the adolescents' appraisal representions of china. But the parents' education level has no effect on adolescents' appraisal representions of china.Han nationality and the Tibetan minority adolescents' Implicit appraisal deviation of china is positive, and there are no magnificent differences on nationality, gender and age.