Negative Emotional Expressions For Middle School Students’ Emotional Contagion

Middle school students are in puberty, whose emotion is very sensitive and affected by others’ negative cmotions. To understand the negative emotional contagion in middle school students, this paper was collectively measured in grade seven. Because students’emotion would be affected by the stimulus and other students’emotion. Through different ways presenting negative expressions (single spacing presenting.single no spacing presenting,overlapping presenting), this paper discussed a.which negative expressions has a greater influence on students’ emotional state; b.whether negative expressions’presenting way and presenting order affected middle school students’emotional state or not; c.what role does susceptibility play in them; d.previous attitude how to affect middle school students’emotional state during overlapping presenting. Research checked the Emotional Contagion Scale and Positive and Negative Affect Scale first, then author draw the flowing conclusions through four experiments.(1)Middle school students are in positive emotional state overall,but their positive emotion would reduce and negative emotion would increase when they infected by the negative emotion.(2)Middle school students infected by the negative intonation expression,their positive emotion reduce most;infected by the negative facial expression,their negative emotion increase most.(3)Susceptibility play a moderating effect on middle school students’negative emotional contagion:people with high susceptibility affected by negative emotional contagion had the performance that positive emotion decreased;Susceptibility will affected students perception for teachers’emotion in negative emotional contagion.(4)Compared with single no spacing presenting,single spacing presenting had more influence on students’emotion.(5)Individuals with the same status (eg. as a class leader) in negative emotional events can image and perceive teachers’negative emotion easier.(6)Compared with single presenting negative expressions, those overlapping presenting in negative emotional events would be perceived deeply.(7) Be in negative emotional contagion, previous attitude play a moderating effect on perception of teachers’negative emotion.