The Effect Of Forgiveness On The Implicit And Explicit Aggression Of College Students: The Mediating Role Of Neuroticism

Forgiveness means that victims free from fears, angers and don’t desire for revenge after they suffered from offences. Aggression is one of the important performance of college students’ psychological problems. The domestic has less forgiveness and college students aggressive research.Little research conclusion tells us the influence of different level on college students’ aggressive forgiveness is different.This research mainly probes the relationship among explicit aggression and forgiveness and personality traits play what role between them, between forgive and implicit aggression, forgive intervention on college students’ level of forgiveness and explicit aggression. The study includes several questionnaires, a single SC-IAT and a six-month group guidance. The following conclusions are as follows: forgiveness negative predicts explicit aggression; personality traits play a role of intermediary between forgiveness and explicit aggression; there are no necessary link between forgiveness and implicit aggression; forgiveness intervention scheme can improve forgiveness’ level and reduce the explicit aggression in a short time; the specific research results are as follows:First study adopts questionnaire survey and investigate forgiveness of contemporary college students and the explicit aggression characteristics. The results show that the situation forgiveness is generally high, but in the hypothetical scenarios, if the college students are facing severe injuries, they less like to forgive each other. In addition, the level of forgiveness is affected by demographic variables of gender, professional, grade, not by single female; the external aggression is in the medium level and mainly in the form of words, but the proportion of physical attack is relative small.Second research adopts questionnaire and investigates relations among forgiveness, explicit aggression and the personality traits. The results show that there is significant negative correlation between explicit aggression and forgiveness level. The regression analysis shows that the higher forgiveness level is, the lower explicit attack behaviors are. The personality trait(nervous) plays partial mediation role between the forgiveness and explicit aggression, accounting for 24% of the total effect.Third research adopts new experimental paradigm(SC-IAT) to explore whether there is significant difference among implicit aggression of different levels’ forgiveness. The results shows that there is no significant difference between different levels of forgiveness and implicit aggression, and shows that there is no necessary link between forgiveness influenced by cultural factors outside and implicit aggression.Fourth research adopts group guidance and investigates forgive intervention plan’s effect on lower levels forgiveness and the influence of explicit aggression in the short term. The results show that forgiveness intervention is effective in the short term and it can improve the level of the eight member forgiveness, reduce the aggressive tendency.