A Research On The Relation Among Sensation Seeking, Social Anxiety And Aggression Of Senior Graders In Rural Primary Schools

Aggression is a common problem exists on children and teenagers that poses negative impact on individual’s development of sociability. Aggression is always associated with subjective factors and objective personality factors. Therefore a research on how individual’s psychological state can impact aggressive behavior is meaningful for decreasing and controlling individual’s inclination to aggression.Currently, there is a lack of research of this on senior graders of rural primary schools.In this paper we try to address the lack by focusing on senior graders of rural primary schools. We conduct a questionnaire survey on 450 students who are randomly selected from 4th, 5th, 6th grades of 4 primary schools in Qiyang county. The survey is carried out through grouping test and outputs 418 effective questionnaires. We asses those children’s aggression level(AL),sensation seeking level(SSL), and social anxiety level(SAL) by analyzing their scores in the following three scales:Aggression Questionnaire, Teenagers sensation seeking scale,Social Anxiety Scale for Children, to discovery the characteristics of the three respects and how SAL and SSL contribute to AL. By analyzing the questionnaires, we conclude the following results:(1) The SSL of high graders in rural primary schools vary in statistical significance by grade and gender. Specifically, the SSL of male students is higher than that of female students; the SSL of 6th graders is higher than that of 4th and 5th graders;(2) The SAL of high graders in rural primary schools vary in statistical significance by gender, mother’s education level. Specifically, the SAL of female students is higher than that of male students; the SAL of students with well-educated mothers is lower than that of children with less educated mothers.(3) The AL of high graders in rural primary schools vary in statistical significance by gender and grade. Specifically, the AL of male students is higher than that of female students; the AL of 4th graders is lower than that of 5th graders; the AL of 5th graders is lower than 6th graders. In term of aggressive dimension, the physical aggression level and verbal aggression level of male students are higher than that of female students; the anger level of female students is higher than that of male students;male and female students are identical in hostility level.(4) There exists a significant correlation between SSL, SAL, and AL. SSL and SAL can serve as a positive predictor of AL.(5) SAL serves as a partial mediation in the impact of SSL on AL.