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Poor Students Self-esteem And Anxiety Explicit And Implicit Cognitive Research

Posted on:2011-10-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360308483656Subject:Development and educational psychology
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Poor students, as a special group of colleges and universities, increasingly attract public and academic attention. Related Papers increasing year by year, most of which concerns relevant policies and measures of articles on the poor students, however, there is less psychological research. Questionnaire scales with the self-report of poverty-stricken college students is the majority of the way to get satisfactory material and explanation. As the social desirability and self-disguise can easily give an impact on self-report scales, accuracy of the results may not be appeared what people expect. This study attempts to explore self-esteem and anxiety though the implicit perspective of the poor students, and compare the results with that of non-poor students. Meanwhile, it tries out to discuss and compare with the relationship between the implicit perspective and explicit phenomenon. It hoped that this paper could compensate for shortage of the pencil and paper tests, and pride scientifically and effectively theoretical basis and education strategy for the poor students'mental health education.Implicit self-esteem is an attitude when individual judges an object self-related or unrelated, which can not be correctly identified by the method of introspection. According to the definition, implicit self-esteem is self-attitude and self-evaluation. The individual could easily ignore the existence of the attitude or be unconscious of his action to stick up for self-esteem. Implicit self-esteem is such long-term accumulation of emotional experience and practice, which show positive and affirmative attitude concerned with their own things. Implicit anxiety cognition shows anxiety people could be attacked by threatening information so as to give birth to permanent cognitive biases of attention bias, memory bias and automatic association of ideas.In this study, explicit self-esteem and anxiety was measured by SES self-esteem scale and status - Trait Anxiety Inventory. We would use IAT Implicit Association Test to measure implicit self-esteem and use emotional stroop to test implicit anxiety. IAT is a voluntary association of idea based on coupling model and test whether it exists or not. The theory of the emotional stroop paradigm is to let the test group notice and process the stimulated significance properties and color properties, however, the participants were asked to ignore the significance of property, only to tell the stimulated color properties so as to produce cognitive processing of the competition and test the mutual interference of two kinds of processing. The test groups in study are poor students and non-poor students. in the four colleges and universities in Sichuan Province.We could come to a conclusion through our study as follows: (1) in the poor students, the male college students'explicit self-esteem is higher than those of female students. (2) The poor students'explicit self-esteem and implicit self-esteem is higher than those of the non-poor students. (3) Poverty and non-poor, the implicit anxiety cognition is different from male and female university students. (4) Explicit self-esteem and explicit anxiety is significantly related, meanwhile implicit self-esteem and implicit anxiety is not distinct mutuality.The study shows that separation of poor students'explicit and implicit self-esteem is higher than that of non-poor students and more obviously than that of non-poor students to get the influence of social desirability and self-expectations. In the poor students, female college students are affected much by the effects of poverty than that of male students.
Keywords/Search Tags:poor students, implicit cognition in anxiety, implicit self-esteem, emotional stroop, Implicit Association Test
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