Sentiment Of Integrity Of College Students And Its Characteristics In Decision Making:Evidence From Behavior And ERP

Integrity is the sentiment of individual due to faith related behavior and thought of inner experience, sentiment of integrity in certain situations in a particular situation will always be associated with the corresponding behavior.In order to measure sentiment of integrity, there comes need of effective measurement tools, on the basis of combing previous studies, this study by means of individual interviews and open questionnaire, sentiment of integrity framework formed a preliminary questionnaire, after testing the questionnaire with 270 undergraduates, and by the item analysis, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis to get the formal questionnaire, eventually we formed the three dimensions, a total of 10 item of the formal questionnaire, three dimensions are respectively the integrity sentiment of study, the integrity sentiment of personal and the integrity sentiment of social credit. The Cronbach’s α value of questionnaire is0.871, reached the surveying requirements, can be as an effective tool to reflect the college students’ sense of integrity.On the basis of the questionnaire and further we recruit participate with high and low sentiment of integrity to complete a behavior experiment, subjects to study different sense of integrity characteristics of participants in the credit decision-making,the experiment adopted the signal game, create a conflict of interest situation.With 60 undergraduates as subjects, 2 x 2 x 2 mixed design of experiment, the sense of integrity as a variable, self gains high and low yield high and low for the group variables, the dependent variable for the participants in each independent variable under the level of integrity and subjects of the emotional response.The results found that the interaction of the sentiment of honesty and self-earnings significantly,self-earnings gains significant interaction with others-earnings, and no significant difference were observed in the reaction in time and emotional response.Then we designed experiment 2, further research on different sentiment of integrity college students to investigate their characteristics of performance under theframework of the ERPs, as we recruited 15 undergraduates, through the signal game,induce subjects integrity behavior and dishonest behavior.The results showed that N2 is affected by the experience of emotion, the lower the emotion arousal, the lower P300 amplitude, the lower the sincere feeling experience, P300 amplitude is smaller.Participants keeps integrity was detected enhanced LPP wave, emotional experience is significantly higher than group did not make integrity behavior.