A Study On Aggressiveness Of Heterogeneous Individuals With High Self-esteem Initiated By Sense Of Power

Self-esteem and aggression have been popular research topics in the field of psychology;however,research findings on their relationship are divergent.The traditional psychological view is that people with low self-esteem engage in more aggressive behavior as a protective measure against external threats and to maintain an internal sense of psychological security;other studies have found that even individuals with high self-esteem may be associated with aggression.To better explain this phenomenon,psychologists have proposed the theory of heterogeneous high self-esteem after research that individuals have different levels of both implicit and explicit self-esteem.Aggression is a very common phenomenon in society,and the presence of individual aggression has been an important factor that hinders the formation of a harmonious society,which can directly harm others physically or cause damage to objects and adversely affect the formation of a harmonious society.There are various factors that influence individual aggression,including environmental factors and personality traits,and power and self-esteem,which are important factors influencing individual aggression,have received a lot of academic attention in recent years.Power,as a situational variable,is ubiquitous in our daily life,while self-esteem,as a stable personality trait,can provide individuals with protection from external threats and has certain defensive capabilities that can help individuals balance internal and external differences and maintain consistency in the face of external threats.Thus,there are some differences in the aggressiveness possessed by individuals with different levels of self-esteem,and the attentional bias toward aggressive information may also vary.Most previous studies have used surveys and measures to explore the effects of actual power magnitude on extrapolated aggressive behavior in individuals with different levels of self-esteem.Drawing on previous research methods and experimental procedures,in this study,students from a university in Yunnan were randomly selected as the subjects,and the effects of power perception on implicit and explicit aggression and attentional bias of aggressive information among individuals with different self-esteem were examined using experimental and measurement methods.In the experimental study,the Rosenberg scale was first used to screen high self-esteem individuals,and then the Implicit Association Test was used to classify the subjects’ implicit self-esteem,and the experimental group was divided into four groups: high power perception secure self-esteem group,low power perception secure self-esteem group,high power perception vulnerable self-esteem group,and low power perception vulnerable self-esteem group,and high and low power perception groups were initiated for two different levels of self-esteem,respectively.To explore the differences in implicit and explicit aggression between subjects in the vulnerable high self-esteem group and secure high self-esteem group under different power sense activation states,and then to explore and analyze the attention bias and memory bias of subjects in the vulnerable high self-esteem group under different power sense activation states in the experiment.The following conclusions were drawn:(1)after activating the power sense of vulnerable high self-esteem subjects,the high power sense group had higher implicit aggressive tendencies;(2)there was no significant difference in the external aggressiveness between the high power sense and low power sense groups,and there was also no significant difference in the external aggressiveness between the secure and vulnerable self-esteem groups;(3)when the high power sense of the subjects was activated,the vulnerable self-esteem(3)There was an attention and memory bias for aggressive words and there was consistency.