Study On The Correlation Ships Between Languages And Self-esteem Of Chinese-English Bilinguals Under CFS Effect

CFS effect is a system where bicultural individuals shift values and attributions in thepresence of culture-relevant stimuli. This study tries to discuss the relationship betweenlanguages and self-esteem under the CFS effect. This study adopts the counterbalanced designwith two- level single factor, and carries out a culture switching experiment with Chinese andEnglish periods. By the questionnaire and investigation and the analysis of T test, F test and soon, the results are following: there is a significant difference when the undergraduate studentsswitch Chinese to English, and the difference is correspondent for the cultural self-esteem indifferent languages; however, there is no difference when the graduate students switch thelanguage from Chinese to English while under both lingual environment they show highself-esteem. According to the post-test after the experiment, the author finds the cultureswitching which uses the language just influences the self-esteem temporally, the switchedself-esteem can not change the self-esteem as a whole. Without the language, the self-esteem willturn back to the former level. The significance of this study is to research the same grouppeople's self-esteem difference between different cultures, which can make the cross-culturalpsychology full. Meanwhile, we could also learn that the languages can influence the self-esteem,which has active social meaning to call attention to the "non-language results" in Englishteaching. This study explores the cross field among cultural psychology, personality psychologyand psycholinguistics, which means it will achieve theoretical value.