Involvement Of Bullying And Self - Harm Behavior Junior High School Students' Attention Bias And Aggressive Research

The physical and mental health of adolescents has always been a key issue in domestic and foreign research field. Nowadays, frequent campus safety issues draw the social focus on adolescents’ problem behaviors. Although studies show that bullying tends to gradual decline with the growth of age. But the hurt because of bullying is bigger and bigger as the growth of age. At the same time, whether to be bullies or victims, they all perform more self harm,emotional distress, low academic achievements and interpersonal problems. Otherwise, the self-injury of teenagers attract few attention because of its characteristic of hidden. But it doesn’t mean that the self-injury rarely occurs among adolescent. Studies have shown that 31.2%-57.4%of ordinary students had non-suicidal self-injurious(NSSI) behaviors, while 88.9% of reformatory school teenagers and 83.5% of juvenile delinquents had similarly behaviors. These harmful behaviors bring many negative influences for teenagers.In order to study the current situation and the relationships of adolescents’ bullying and non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors, and to study the attention bias and aggression of adolescents who are involved in these harmful behavior, there were three studies in this paper. In addition, the other purpose of this paper is to analyze the internal cause and implicit attitude of those harmful behavior.The study includes three parts:Study 1 used Bully/Victim Questionnaire and Adolescent Non-Suicidal Self-Injurious Questionnaire to measure 679 adolescents from grade 7 to grade 9. To survey the situation of adolescents’ bullying and NSSI behaviors, and to lay the foundation for subsequent experiment.Study 2 used cue-target task with self-injurers and non-self-injurers. And it designed 3(the types of bullying)×2(the types of words)×2(clues)experiment plan. To explore bullies and victims attention bias to harmful, unharmful event words.Study 3 used Aggression Questionnaire(AQ) to measure the explicit aggression and used Single Category Implicit Association Test(SC-IAT) to measure the implicit aggression. The SC-IAT designed 3(the types of bullying)×2(the types of task)experiment plan. To measure the implicit aggression.The results of this research are as follows:(1)Study 1 found that there were 8% of bullies, 19.9% of victims, 4.4% of bully-victims and33.1% of self-injurers. In addition, gender and grade variables had obvious effects on the bullying behavior, and grade variables had significant effect on NSSI. Meanwhile, bullying behavior could influence NSSI, and they had obvious correlations.(2) On the one hand, study 2 showed that the types of words and clues had main effect, and the types of bullying and words, the types of bullying and clues, the types of words and clues, the three variables had the interaction effect. On the other hand,under the condition of invalid clues,bully and self-injury group responded faster to harmful event words. So it showed avoidance of attention to the harmful event.(3)Study 3 showed that bully and self-injurers had the highest AQ score, followed by victim and self-injurers. According to the result of variance analysis, three groups had significant differences on physical attack, indirect attack, anger, hostility and overall scores. The result of SC-IAT showed that bully and self-injurers scored lower on compatible task, however, typical students was in contrast. In addition, bully and self-injurers’ D score was higher than standard.So they performed high implicit aggression.The conclusions of this research are as follows:(1)Bullying and NSSI behaviors are relatively common among middle school students, and there are significant differences on grade or gender variable.(2)Bullying and NSSI behaviors have significantly relationships and symbiosis. Bullying can forecast NSSI.(3)Middle school students who are involved in the harmful behavior show attention avoidance to the harmful event words.(4)Students who are involved in the harmful behavior perform high explicit aggression. In addition, bully and self-injurers have high implicit aggression.However, victim-self-injurers and typical students have low level of aggression.