Students' Ethics To Enhance The Sense Of Its Relationship With Pro-social Behavior

Researchers in the expanding field of positive psychology have pushed for a focus on the examination of positive emotions comparable to that found in the study of negative emotions. The positive emotion known as elevation is familiar to many experientially, though perhaps not by name. Haidt firstly introduced the construct"elevation"into Psychology and clarified its main characteristic through empirical evidences. Some studies have already verified the uniqueness of elevation and compared it with other positive emotions. Researchers have proposed elevation contains both intrapersonal and interpersonal enrichment. The current study is designed to develop elevation scale for Chinese people, and the scale will be used to explore the development of elevation during Chinese people. The relationship between elevation and pro-social behavior also has been studied in the hope of providing some theoretical evidence for moral education.In study 1, the structure of the construct"elevation"has been explored in order to develop the elevation scale. The result showed that there are four factors underling the construct, which include physiological experience, cognitive judgment, emotional response and behavioral tendency. The gained scale includes four factor and 13 items. The validity and reliability of the scale have been examined.In study 2, the state of elevation during Chinese college student have be studied, with the results show that 1)people score higher on the cognitive and behavioral factor, while scores lower on the other two factor; 2) gender, grade (junior or senior), subject majored (art or science) and sources of students(from rural or urban area ) and child type (only child or not) will impact the structure of scores of elevation.In study 3, the relation between elevation and pro-social behavioral tendency is explored. The result shows that there is significantly positive correlation between elevation and pro-social behavioral tendency. Moreover, the results indicated that elevation provided the same validity as the Five-Factor Model of Personality in predicting pro-social behavior.In study 4, we tested the relationship between elevation and helping behavior. Prior to measuring helping behavior, we measured elevation among participants in an elevation-inducing condition and control conditions in order to determine whether witnessing altruistic behavior elicited elevation. The experiment shows that participants experiencing elevation were more likely to help the experimenter with a tedious task as participants experiencing mirth or a neutral emotional state. Further, feelings of elevation, but not feelings of amusement or happiness, predicted the amount of helping. The result provide evidence that witnessing another person's altruistic behavior elicits elevation, a discrete emotion that, in turn, leads to tangible increases in altruism.