The Relationship Between Middle-School Student Two Notions Of Imagination Audience,Personal Fable And Risk-taking Behaviors

Many studies on imaginary audience and personal fable have been done during the past 30 years on western adolescence developmental research. The newest model on the two notions figure out: Ego identity's development may be the source of imaginary audience and personal fable. This two notions influence many adolescents'behavior and mental, such as self-conscionsness,risk-taking,idealism and conformity to peer group norms and so on. Along with the development of chinese society informationication and globalization, the community pay more and more attention to adolescent problems. So it is necessary to study impaction factors of youth risk-taking and to look into the root causes of behavior and psychological mechanism.On the basis of analysis of the domestic and foreign relevant researches of imaginary audience and personal fable, this study explored the relationship between the two notions and risk-taking behavior with the methods of interview,qustionnaire,survey,Exploratory,Factor Analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis,Regression Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling.The conclusions are listed as follows:Firstly, there is significant differences in demographic variables.Secondly, imaginary audience obviously predict the rebellious behaviors, the thrill-seeking behaviors and the antisocial behaviors. The risk-taking tendency acts as all the mediator between imaginary audience and antisocial behaviors, and play part mediator between imaginary audience and rebellious behaviors, thrill-seeking behaviors.Thirdly, the uniqueness obviously predict the rebellious behaviors.Fourthly, the invulnerability and omnipotence obviously predict the reckless behaviors. The risk-taking tendency acts as the mediator between the invulnerability, omnipotence and the reckless behaviors.The innovation of this study is that reviewing the influence factor of risk-taking behavior from the perspective of youth identity development. To more deeply discuss the influence to risk-taking behavior of the youth by the dimensions of imaginary audience and personal fable, this study introduced the concept of risk-taking tendency. Although the concepts itself does not mean too much, it has played a very important role, and draw some new conclusions when examine the modle.Future research should use case study and other research methods, combine quality and quantity research, and with larger sample for deeper study.