Research On The Contagion Of Group Psychological Insecurity

There are various social security issues occurred when China has been developing rapidly in the period of economic and social transition..People are increasingly unable to be "independent" and spend most of their time in groups,which leads to the spread of effects in the groups caused by insecure events.Existing studies have investigated the phenomenon of single emotions such as positive emotions and negative emotions in a group.While it is necessary to explore the psychological insecurity that mixed emotion infections occurring in individual and group situations,whichnot only can enrich the theory of emotional contagion,but also provides the basis for mass conflict prevention,intervention and treatment,helping to reduce the adverse consequences of mass incidents.In this paper,440 college students were selected as the research objects.The secen experiment method was adopted,using textual material and video material as two stimulus materials respectively.It aimed to explore the differences in the psychological insecurity of the subjects under individual scenarios and group scenarios when facing the same insecurity incidents,to further explore the phenomenon of group psychological insecurity infection,and preliminary explore the related factors influencing the group psychological insecurity infection.The results are as follows:(1)Facing the same insecure text stimulus material,the level of psychological insecurity experienced by participants in different situations is different.Using the pre-test and post-test experimental methods,the results of an independent sample t-test showed that the level of psychological insecurity in the group scenario was significantly higher than that in the individual scenario dimensionally and overall.(2)There was a significant positive correlation between the psychological insecurity of the participants and the psychological insecurity of the surrounding people.The regression analysis of the psychological insecurity in the groups and the overall psychological insecurity related to the psychological insecurity of the surrounding people found that the psychological insecurity of the participants and thegeneral insecurity were influenced by the surrounding people.This result shows that psychological insecurity does spread in groups.(3)Group size and group familiarity can affect the contagion of group psychological insecurity.In the unfamiliar group,group size can affect the contagion of group psychological insecurity,and the overall psychological insecurity score of large group is significantly higher than that of small group.In large groups,group familiarity affects the infection of psychological insecurity.After the stimulation,the unfamiliar group's general psychological insecurity,anxiety and panic and general psychological insecurity scores were significantly higher than those of the familiar group.