| Gratitude is the fine qualities of human beings, as well as a positive emotional experience or emotional quality. State gratitude refers to an immediate gratitude emotion that originated from the individual feelings. The feelings will appears when people feel the following things:the grace offered from others, the resource belongs to humans or provided by society, all the good things from nature. Trait gratitude is a tendency to experience gratitude emotion. Those who have high trait gratitude tend to experience and express gratitude emotion more easily, more frequently, more widely, and more strongly. Foreign researchers have made abundant achievements, but domestic researchers mostly limited to fields of gratitude education, status of gratitude, related research of gratitude, establishment or revision of gratitude scale, and research object is given priority to college students. Prosocial behavior refers to all the behaviors conforming to the social expectations that can bring positive influence on others or the society. Some researches have shown that trait gratitude can promote the pro-social behavior. In this paper, the research is focused on how the trait gratitude affects pro-social behavior along with other factors. Based on the previous researches, aimed at the limitations of previous researches, three researches, which involved the high school students, have been conducted.The first research is conducted through《 A questionnaire of trait gratitude feeling》 and 《A scale of pro-social behavior inclination)) in order to know about the high school students’status quo of trait gratitude》 pro-social behavior inclination, as well as the relationship between trait gratitude and pro-social behavior inclination. The second study use 2(trait gratitude:high, low)×3(emotional starting conditions: gratitude, annoyance, neutral) completely random design so as to explore how different it is to participate in the pro-social behavior of the high school students with different trait gratitude under different emotional starting conditions. The third study use 2(trait gratitude:high, low)×2 (cognitive starting conditions:high benefit-cognitive appraisal, low benefit-cognitive appraisal) completely random design in order to explore how different it is to participate in the pro-social behavior of the high school students with different trait gratitude under different cognitive starting conditions.The researches mainly draw the following conclusion:(1)The result of the research has suggested that the trait gratitude of high school students takes on a high level, and girls’ were significantly higher than boys. The pro-social behavior of high school students is higher, as well as grade one and grade two are significantly higher than grade three on the compliance dimension. The trait gratitude was significantly associated with pro-social behavior tendency, and can forecast pro-social behavior in a certain extent. Those who have high trait gratitude have higher pro-social behavior inclination than those who have low trait gratitude.(2)Trait gratitude moderates the influence of emotional starting conditions on pro-social behavior. The high school students who have high trait gratitude participate in more pro-social behavior than those who have low trait gratitude under gratitude, neutral and trouble emotional starting conditions. The high school students who are under gratitude emotional starting condition participate in more pro-social behavior than those who are under neutral and trouble emotional starting conditions. Those who are under trouble emotional starting condition have the lowest level of pro-social behavior. The emotion has more significantly effect on low trait gratitude level, that is to say, the mood can regulate the effects which trait gratitude takes on pro-social behavior.(3)Cognitive starting conditions have no significant impact on pro-social behaviors of high school students. |
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