A Study On The Features, Influencing Factors And Education Of Gratitude-consciousness Of Pupils

The loss of gratitude consciousness of some children is becoming a common phenomenon, and it leads to a lot of unexpected painful problems. Waking-up the gratitude-consciousness of children has become a very important part of moral education at school. Based on the achievements of other investigators about gratitude consciousness, the content of the gratitude consciousness is not clearly defined, and the research of influencing factors is also weak.This paper discusses the features of gratitude-consciousness of pupils and the relationship among the atmosphere of family, the impact of parents and gratitude-consciousness of pupils, as well as to provide some enlightenment and education proposals for gratitude education method. Using the questionnaire method, we choose 500 students as subjects. By analyzing the data by T test and multiple regression analysis, we got research results as following:(1) The pupils of different grades are obviously different on each dimension. By the after multiple comparisons we found that pupil's whose in the fifth-grade significantly lower than other grades,and have no significant difference between the third-grade and the sixth-grade.(2) The only child and child with siblings are obviously different on two dimensions which consist of: patronize gratitude-owe feeling. And the scores of the only child were higher than child with siblings.(3) Urban children and rural children who are obviously different on the dimensions which consist of gratitude- recognizing and gratitude-owe feeling. The scores of the urban children on gratitude- recognizing were higher than the rural children. The scores of the urban children on gratitude-owe feeling were lower than rural children.(4) Generally speaking, the standard of pupils'gratitude situation is higher than medium level. The gratitude-cherishing is the highest one and the gratitude-owe feeling is the lowest one.(5) The pupils'gratitude-consciousness is obviously related to the impact of parents and the harmonious atmosphere of family. The contradictory atmosphere of family is negatively related to the gratitude- remembering, gratitude-appreciation, gratitude- recognizing.(6) The impact of parents has direct effect on the pupil's gratitude-consciousness. The harmonious atmosphere of family has direct effect on gratitude- recognizing.