The Influence Of Emotional Autobiographical Memory On Individual Hoarding Behavior And Implicit Attitude

Hoarding behavior not only as a form of neurosis, it is also widely present in our daily lives. Hoarding behavior can be divided into material hoarding, mental hoarding, money hoarding and other forms of hoarding. On this point, in today’s daily life, what is often referred to corruption also belong to a kind of money hoarding. With an independent division of hoarding disorder, excessive hoarding has attracted people’s attention, and in order to reduce the incidence of hoarding disorder and reduce the appearance of various other forms of hoarding in people’s daily life, the study about the reason of people’s hoarding behavior appearance and the mechanism, the development of research seem more important. For individual hoarding behavior occurs, there are many different interpretations, there are many speculation about the factors for hoarding. Does childhood poverty, and misery experience is the reason which caused those corrupt officials accumulation of money excessively, and these things require further study. Thus, whether the individual hoarding behavior is due to the memory of their early experiences, and the emotional autobiographical memory about these early experiences has affect the current hoarding behavior of individuals, needs a deep-step research.The study of how does the different emotional autobiographical memory effected in different periods of life and the effects of emotional autobiographical memory for individual hoarding behavior were studied experimentally, using SC-IAT patterns to measured people’s implicit attitudes to hoarding behavior individual. For the experimental data, we using correlation analysis, ANOVA, multiple parties’ differential, independent samples T-test, paired samples T-test methods discussed different emotions of autobiographical memory’s affect, such as positive autobiographical memory and negative autobiographical memory, and also discussing the demographic variables differences. The study found:1. Different emotional autobiographical memory have an impact on individual hoarding behavior that would increase individual’s hoarding in everyday life;2. Positive autobiographical memory makes people hold a negative attitude to those hoarding behaviors in daily life;3. Negative autobiographical memory makes people hold a more positive attitude to those hoarding behaviors in daily life;4. Autobiographical memories of childhood make individuals take a more positive attitude to hoarding behavior in daily life than adolescent autobiographical memories;5. Negative emotions autobiographical memory of childhood and adolescence all will have an impact on the accumulation of implicit attitudes within individuals, increase individual’s hoarding tendencies in everyday life;6. Childhood negative autobiographical memories has the greatest impact within the individual hoarding implicit attitude.The research shows that negative emotional autobiographical memory have a significant impact on individuals hoarding behavior, and childhood negative emotional autobiographical memory can significantly increase the hoarding behavior of individuals in daily life. It has an important value of the further study about individuals hoarding behavior.