Study On Implicit Cognition Of The Relationship Between Undergraduates’ Attributional Style And Subjective Well-being

BackgroundAt present, the attributional style and subjective well-being researches mostly involving only the explicit measurement, generally use self-report scales for questionnaire survey, then carry on the correlation analysis. It was found, explicit attributional style and explicit subjective well-being were strongly related. In less than20years, the implicit social cognition research is rising rapidly, from a physiological basis to the theoretical framework, from the research methods to the content study, all obtained the enormous development. Researches on the implicit attributional style and implicit subjective well-being were researched, but the relationship between the two studies did not see.ObjectiveThis study aimed at applying both implicit and explicit measuring means, to validate the dual structure model of attributional style and subjective well-being, and to explore the relationship between attributional style and subjective well-being.Method1. The research subjects are119undergraduates, including40boys,79girls,18to25years old, physical healthy, have certain computer operating ability, visual acuity or visual acuity after normal, do not participate in similar experiments.2. Explicit attributional style was measured by multidutional-multiattributional causality scale; explicit subjective well-being was measured by index of well-being; affect scales:positive affect, negative affect, affect balance; and satisfaction with life scale. Implicit attributional style was measured by the implicit association test:a measure is under the success condition of the implicit attributional style; another measurement in the failure condition of implicit attributional style. Implicit subjective well-being measurement also use implicit association test.3. Use SPSS17.0for Windows for statistical processing, mainly by differences in testing, correlation analysis and regression analysis methods. Significant level is0.05 (α=0.05).Result1. The explicit attributional style, gender different in the inner and outer proneness has significant differences, males tend to attribute to internal, females tend to attribute to the outside; no matter success or failure, subjects make more internal attribution, and less external attribution, the difference was significant.2. Implicit attributional style had no significant gender differences, was more inclined to attribute success to internal, and failure to the outside; the subjects to successful events more internal attributions, while the failure events attributed more to, differences reached significant level.3. Some indexes of explicit and implicit attributional styles are partly negative related, partly not related.4. Gender differences of implicit and explicit subjective well-being are not significant; the correlations between each index are not significant.5. Explicit attributional style and explicit subjective well-being are significantly related; explicit attributional style and implicit subjective well-being are not significantly related; implicit attributional style and explicit subjective well-being are partly related; implicit attributional style and implicit subjective well-being was positively related to each other.6. Explicit attributional style can predict the explicit subjective well-being; implicit attributional style can predict the explicit subjective well-being and implicit subjective well-being.Conclusion1. Attributional style structure is twofold, existing explicit attributional style and implicit attributional style.2. The undergraduates’ subjective well-being structure is twofold, existing explicit and implicit subjective well-being. 3. Explicit attributional style can predict the explicit subjective well-being, implicit attributional style can predict the explicit subjective well-being and implicit subjective well-being.