Research On The Implicit Attitude To Divorce Of The Youth

In recent years, the divorce rate is rising sharply in China, and it has caused many negative impacts on the harmony of families and our society. The research about divorce rate at home and abroad was focused on the reason and the influence on children, and is lack of empirical research about the attitude of divorce. The attitudes we have known through the questionnaire or self report about the attitude of divorce is the explicit attitude, and it can't represent the true attitude.The youth is in the important period, that is from love to marriage. To investigate and understand the youth implicit attitude of divorce, and whether the youth hold a implicit stereotype of divorce can help us to forecast their subsequent behavior effectively, do more effectively marriage counseling for youth, make pointed attitude interference, avoid marriage crisis intervention and save the marriage relationship.Two experiments consist of this paper:The first uses GNAT to examine the youth's implicit attitude about divorce, and"positive"and"negative"is including to evaluated divorce. The experiment uses 2(subject gender: male, female) x 4(implicit attitude: positive divorce, negative divorce, positive family, negative family) mixed design of two factors.Experiment 1 shows that youth hold a negative attitude to divorce and a positive attitude to family. Anymore, the young women hold a more positive implicit attitude than young men to divorce.The second uses SEB examining implicit stereotype of youth in divorce to research the implicit gender stereotype and the difference of attribution. The experiment uses 2(subject gender: male, female) x 2(the results of divorce: pain, no pain) x 2(the consistency of divorce and stereotype: consistent, no consistent) x 2(youth gender: male, female) mixed design.The experiment shows that there is strong implicit gender stereotype among the youth. The youth believe woman have more hurt than man in divorce, and no gender difference in the gender stereotype. Divorcee gender have significant influences on the attribution for divorce. The youth tend to internal attribution for "divorce women are more pain", while tend to external attribution for"divorce men are more pain".. The following main conclusions are reached:(1) The implicit attitude to divorce of youth is negative.(2) There is a gender difference in the implicit attitude to divorce of youth.(3) The young woman hold a more positive implicit attitude than young man to divorce.(4) There is strong gender stereotyping on divorce among the youth.(5) The youth believe woman have more hurt than man in divorce.(6) There is no gender difference in implicit stereotyping on divorce among the youth.