The Cognitive Research About Impression Management Strategies Of Teenager In Middle School

The impression management strategy of teenager is a part of their socialization development. The study about middle school students in this field is actually to enrich and broaden the impression management theory. Also it is helpful to give teachers and even the parents of youth advice that could provide theoretical help and guidance. In order to explore various impression management strategies and the differences link to the personalities, the study used questionnaires and the Implicit Association Test (IAT) in the explicit aspect and implicit aspect respectively. The questionnaire part including the five factors of personality of middle school students, SPT scale and SLCS-R scale, while the implicit tests are towards both student and teachers who act as the target in student daily life. In the questionnaire measurements we firstly found that the junior boys would like to use more impression management strategies than girls. The group of student leaders prefers to use some strategies such as exemplification, secondly. Self-handicapping strategy is negatively related to two dimensions of self-esteem but has positive correlation towards neuroticism in personality, and exemplification is positively related to all personality and self-esteem dimensions except neuroticism. Self-esteem can be predicted by the IM strategies. In the IAT research results, we found that the middle school students are easy to subordinate their own gender groups associated with the assertive strategies. The head teacher of class will be easier to get girls and the assertive strategies linked up. Girls express themselves not less than boys; even the boys will use a variety of impression management strategies.Research has shown that male adolescents are more concerned about the impression management strategies form; female adolescents have enthusiasm for self-expression than we thought before.