The Effect Of Social Comparison And Depressive Mood On Social Decision-making Of Adolescents

High school students face enormous academic pressure and they have higher rates of getting depressive mood;At the same time,they are used to compare scores with classmates which can be seem as social comparison.At the same time,the high school group is faced with helpful decision-making,choice of friends,and many other social decision.In the process of decision-making,they will compare scores and popularitywith classmates,etc.Although past research often focused on the social decision-making in earnings situation,actually the loss situation also widely exist in real life.To this end,we design the experiment to explore the impact of depression and social comparison on adolescent social decision-making on earnings situation and on loss situation.Experiment one investigates how social comparison effects and group influence adolescent' social decision-making on earnings situation.The experiment have three mix design factors and the result shows that:(1)under the condition of earnings,depressive mood group' acceptance rate is significantly higher than normal group,a sense of fairness is significantly lower than normal group amd the reaction time is longer than the normal group significantly.(2)the proposed types have significant main effect :the subjects' acceptance rate of 5:5 is significantly higher than 3:7 and1:9;the subjects' acceptance rate of 3:7 is significantly higher than 1:9.At the same time,the subjects' a sense of fairness of 5:5 is significantly higher than 3:7 and 1:9;the subjects' a sense of fairness of 3:7 is significantly higher than 1:9.Proposal type and group have a significant interactive effect,under the condition of income,depressive mood group' acceptance rate of 1:9 significantly higher than normal group.(3)social comparison have a significant main effect.The subjects' acceptance rate of downwardsocial comparison situation is significantly higher than upward social comparison situation.(4)social comparison and group have a significant interactive effect.Normal group' acceptance rate in downward social comparison situation is significantly higher than in upward social comparison situation.Depressive group' acceptance rate have no significant difference between upward social comparison sitution and downward social comparison situation.(5)social comparison and proposed types have a significant interactive effect.The subjects' acceptance rate of 5:5 have no significant difference between upward social comparison sitution and downward social comparison situation.The subjects' acceptance rate of 1:7 in downward social comparison situation is significantly higher than in upward social comparison situation.The subjects' acceptance rate of 1:9 in downward social comparison situation is significantly higher than in upward social comparison situation.Experiment two investigate how social comparison effects and group influence adolescent' social decision-making on loss situation.The experiment have three mix design factors and the result shows that:(1)under the condition of loss,depressive mood group' acceptance rate and normal group' have no significant difference.Depressive mood group' sense of fairness is significantly lower than normal group amd the reaction time is longer than the normal group significantly.(2)the main effect of proposed types have significant difference,the subjects' acceptance rate of 5:5 is significantly higher than 3:7 and 1:9.the subjects' acceptance rate of 3:7is significantly higher than 1:9.(3)comparison and group have a significant interactive effect.Depressive group' acceptance rate in downward social comparison situation is significantly higher than upward social comparison situation.Normal group'acceptance rate have no significant dirrerence between upward social comparison sitution and downward social comparison situation.(4)the proposed types have significant main effect : the subjects' acceptance rate of 5:5 is significantly higher than 3:7 and 1:9;the subjects' acceptance rate of 3:7 is significantly higher than 1:9.At the same time,the subjects' a sense of fairness of 5:5 is significantly higher than 3:7 and 1:9;the subjects' a sense of fairness of 3:7 is significantly higher than 1:9.(5)the analysis of a sense of fairness results show that the social comparisonand group have a significant interactive effect.In the depressive mood group,the sense of fairness in upward social comparison situation is significantly higher than that of downward social comparison situation,normal group' sense of fairness have no significant difference between upward social comparison situation and downward social comparison situation.