Reseach On The Influence Factors And The Functions To Pro-social Intention Of Emotional Benefits Among College Students

Gratitude is a positive attitude，the individual with awareness to help others, and onthe basis of that awareness，individual will experience some pleasant emotions. It canpromote individual make pro-social behaviors. Owe feeling to individual is a sense ofnegative cognitive offered to help others, with this cognition people will feel upset, it isprompting individual to seek opportunities to repay given. Both ways can promotepro-social intention occur, but there are significant differences between each other.Based on the study of foreign documents, combined with Chinese culturalbackground, it revealed the payoff expectations and personal relationship distance mayaffect emotional benefits, and emotional benefits may promote pro-social intention. Thisstudy has a profound meaning of emotional benefits experience under the native culturalbackground, it discuss the effect of the emotional benefit experience fo r pro-socialbehavior, it has the advantage of building a harmonious society and improve ourgratitude education.According to this study, college students were tested, we designed three studies,the First study provided research-based questionnaire for the Second study and theThird study, the Second and the Third study used3×3mixed experiment, forexploring personal relationship distance and payoff expectations may affect emotionalbenefits. There, the Second study presents the method of story telling, the Third studyuses the method of story recalling, and controls the value of benefit for excluding theimpact on emotional benefits and the intention of helping. The result are:1. In the native culture, the adjectives of appreciate words including Thanks, grateful,touched, and indebted words mainly include: owing, guilt and compunction;2. In the different distance of relationships, we have different representatives.In thecircle of intimate relationships, it includes parents, family members, lovers andfriends, In the general relationships, including neighbors, classmates, colleagues,people in our life does not have direct connection with us are the strangers andpassers-by. 3. With payoff expectations increasing, individual will experience less gratitude andless owing feeling.4. With the distance of relationships increasing, individual will experience differentowing feeling,but it may go up steadily.5. No matter what kind of relationships, people will experience more gratitude afteraccepting the help of others, and these people will provide their helps to others too.