An Influence Of Emotion State And Intensity On Moral Judgment Ability In Middle School Students

Moral judgment ability is the moral attitude to individual performance for specific behavior decision-making ability, and it’s also refers to the individual on the basis of the existing moral knowledge to morality phenomenon. In the mid-to-late80’s began, with the development of research, people has found that emotion and feeling play an important role in moral judgment process. Moral education is the important stage in people’s whole life so scholars pay great attention to teenagers’moral judgment state. Taking96middle school students as the subjects and using affective priming paradigm and Moral Judgment Test,from two aspects of the emotional state and emotional intensity to accomplished this study. Specific as follows:Experience1adopted a3×2between subject designs, through the video clips start different emotional state, complete Chinese version of moral judgment test. The result shows that (1) the difference between junior middle school students and senior high school students were significant.(2)The effects of emotional state on middle school students’ moral judgment were significant. Middle school students’ moral judgments were higher when they were in a happy state than in a sad state or a normal state.(3) Moral judgment ability score no significant differences in the gender. Experience1Has confirmed that happy state’s morals judgment ability scores was more higher, so experience2only study the emotion of happy. Through the video clips start different emotional intensity, and then complete Chinese version of moral judgment test. The result shows that (1)The difference between junior middle school students and senior high school students were significant.(2)The effects of emotional intensity on middle school students’ moral judgment were significant. Middle school students’ moral judgments were higher when they were in a moderate strength than in a higher strength or a low strength.The results of this study indicate that individual’s moral judgment was more justice when they were in a positive emotional state, especially in moderate positive emotional state. The results also reflect that positive affect promoted the individual’s cognitive processing, and then improve the decision-making and thinking of the quality, raising the level of their moral judgment.