The Attitude Model Of University Students' Filial Piety Attitude And The Relationship Between Filial Piety Attitude And The Subjective Well-being

Filial piety prescribes how children should behave towards their parents, living or dead as well as towards theirs ancestors. Filial piety is one of the paramount guiding ethics governing social behaviors on Chinese societies. It has been particularly emphasized by Confucian scholars throughout Chinese history as regulating interpersonal ,especially intergenerational relationships among Chinese people. The study of filial piety in Chinese societies is a discipline dominated by historians, philologists and philosophers. Little interest in studying filial piety comes from the perspective of behavioral sciences, particularly from that of psychology, until the 1970s, when empirical studies began to appear in the psychology literature, but in the mainland of our country, there are still no psychological studies focusing on this aspect. The different results of researches results from different tools of researches. For the sake of convenience of later research, this research tries to carry on the research of filial piety attitude from the angle of psychology.According to other researches of the filial piety, this research combines with implicit technique and social cognition theories to study whether filial piety attitude exists dual attitude model and the relationship between filial piety attitude and the Subjective Well-being.This research is divided into five parts: The first part on the basis of interview, questionnaire and bibliography etc, draws up the questionnaire of university students' explicit filial piety attitudes, carrying on a research to 763 university students; The second part, explores what the characteristics of filial piety attitudes is ; The third part, is to study the existence of implicit filial piety attitudes by IAT; The fourth part, explores the dual attitude of filial piety model by the research of the relationship between implicit and explicit filial piety attitude ; The fifth part, on the basis of the former parts of filial piety, find the relationship between subjective well-being and filial piety attitude. The following results are:1. According to item discrimination, exploration factor analysis, verification factor analysis ,reliability and validity test, it has been discovered university students' filial piety explicit attitude questionnaire, including 46 items and 5 dimensions—serving parents happily , respecting parents, sacrificing for parents ,oppressing themselves and showing obedience to parents, bringing honor to the family and protecting the parents . And the scores of all the university students in the explicit attitude questionnaire of each dimension are high;2. The university student filial piety attitude does not show significant difference in majority, gender and grades. But there is sex difference in serving and supporting parents happily, sacrificing for parents. The girl is obviously higher than the boy. It also shows difference between city and countryside in oppressing themselves and showing obedience to parents and bringing honor to the family and protecting the parent .The city students get lower goal than the village students;3. According to IAT, it shows: the university student's reaction time of " filial piety phrase language" combining with " negative phrase language" is shorter than the reaction time of " filial piety phrase language" combining with" aggressive phrase language".4. According to the structure square distance, it discovers there is a dual attitude model and it is also rational;5. There is significant relationship between parts of sub- dimensions of filial piety attitude and parts of sub- dimensions of the subjective well-being.