Research On Children's Dissonant Psychology After Their Moral Transgressions

On the new developments of dissonant psychology, especially the developments of the cognitive dissonance and the emotional dissonance, this thesis reviews the defects of the researches on children's psychology after their moral transgressions, and analyzes children's dissonant psychology after their moral transgressions in the theory and demonstration. The theoretical part has four aspects, such as the generation, the self-adjustment power, the regulating approaches and the influences of children's dissonant psychology after moral transgressions. The author points out the moral evaluation, negative emotion, the change of cognition and action are the basic contents of children's dissonant psychology after moral transgressions. In order to explore the important part of the research, the author studies the approaches of the dissonance adjustment and the influential factors by means of questionnaires. Results indicate that the context and the outcome of moral transgressions, the anticipation of punishment are important influential factors of the dissonance adjustment. They are also important influential factors of the type and the intensity of negative emotion. Children may choose atonement or defensive by different influential factors.