Emotional Impact Of Different Types Of Children's Social Information Processing

With the development,Social Information-Processing paradigm which catches the eyes of lots of researchers has been a hot topic of exploring the children' social development. Prosocial Behavior and aggressive Behavior are important aspects of individual social development.Make research on them in the way of SIP paradigm would help disembedding the deep mechanism of children' social development.Material existed has showed,emotion may influence children' social information-processing.As a result,it is of great importance to add the "emotion" variable to the studies on children' prosocial behavior and aggressive behavior.This study tries to investigate the influence that emotion has in children' social information-processing according to Dodge' social information-processing model,and explore the mechanism of effect which emotion has on different social behavior children' social information-processing.In experiment 1,80 students are selected from grade 4 and grade 5 of a middle school, from whom be divided into 3 groups according to the Peer Assement of Social Behavior Scale, including prosocial group,aggressive group and common group.Based on the former studies, in the present study,there were two kinds of scenes in which children enjoyed and conflict with companions,and each scene had one story about Peer communication referring to different social behavior.This study put forward emotion priming paradigm,designing happy priming or no emotion priming under the conflict scene,sad priming or no emotion priming under the enjoyed scene.The social information-processing as the dependent variables included behavior attribution,reaction quantity,reaction quality and SIP score.The results showed:(1) Under one scene,children with the same social behavior had the similar feather in the social information-processing.Prosocial group had the highest scores in the phases of the social information-processing.(2) Conclusion can be reached after the addition of the emotion variable.Under the enjoyed scene,emotion had the mail effect on the SIP,all the subjects' score had improved under the sad emotion priming.Under the conflict scene,social behavior and emotion had the interaction on the social information-processing.In experiment 2,123 students are selected as the subjects.Different from the experiment 1,we put forward an operational definition about "social emotion",the material which was used to prime emotion had a significant relation.The results showed:(1) The main effect of the social behavior on the social information-processing was significant.(2) With the addition of the "social emotion" variable,we had already proof-tested the hypothesis of the emotion influence.(3) Prosocial children were easy influenced by emotion.