An Experimental Study To The Influence Of Cognitive Training Of Empathy And Consequence On The Children-Bullying

The bully problem in school is a hot topic worldwide in nowadays psychology study. In the recent 20 years, psychologists from many countries achieved a lot on this field, the bully problem. Depending on those findings, psychologists in our country also carried on some related studies. But it stays the descriptive level by investigating and analyzing the current situation of the bullying in our country, has a little intervention programs conducted, especially the intervention program in the characteristics of personality and cognitive of children. Therefore researches and practices have shown that, the bullying accidence is a mutual consequence of negative character, cognitive and special situation of two parts in the bullying. So this study focused on the intervention programs from developing the level of the child's empathy and the improvement of bullying cognition on the children, to diminishing the bullying behavior of children.There is high rate of bullying problem among the elementary school students because it is the special stage of their physical and mental development. This paper studies the characteristic development of children in the empathy level and the cognitive level through questionnaire, interviews and literature analysis. What is more, this paper also works out a new Bullying Behavior Scale for Elementary School Students as a measure for later study. Then this research applied the natural experiment to check the educational intervention collectively and individually.Following tips is the conclusions we drew:I .Consequence of bullying in the pupils' cognition mostly comes from four sides:victim, parent, teacher, and schoolmates.II .The new Bullying Behavior Scale for Elementary School Students can cover the sources of cognitive of the child in the bullying behavior. And it has a high testable reliability, internal homogeneity reliability, and construction and content validity.III .After the educational intervention training, the general picture of bullying behavior get improved. Among which:(1)The empathy level of the bullying children have been developed in general. After experiment, the significance exists in "happy", "angry" and "fright" by the two empathy score methods between the experimental class and the controlled class. There is no significance in "sorrow" by using the specified empathy scoring method between the experiment class and the controlled class, which there lays significance in the four emotion types by the general empathy score method. (2)Consequence of bullying in the pupils' cognition, which comes mostly from victim, parent and teacher, is not so significance after the educational intervention, but the influence from schoolmates still largely unimproved.IV. The research shows that the comprehensive educational intervention is feasible and effective in bullying behavior among elementary school students.