The Effect Of Physical Cleansing On Negative Cognition Under Self-Threat

In a highly information-based social environment,it is difficult to avoid threatening information,which has obvious negative effects on individual behaviors and emotions.When faced with the threat of unethical information,negative emotional experiences such as disgust and guilt tend to be negative self-evaluation.Individuals have the need to maintain integrity of self and motivation,the study found that in the face of threat information itself,the needs of individuals to produce clean body,clean at the same time,the study also confirmed that the body can wash the stains of the psychological threat information(such as guilt,sadness,feelings),so as to affect individual behavior and cognition.In the moral realm,physical cleansing can wash away moral threats to restore moral self-image.The self-affirmation theory holds that the individual has the motivation to maintain self-integrity,and when the integrity of the individual is threatened,it will use the affirmation of other important values to maintain the integrity of the self-system.Therefore,according to the reasoning,in the non-moral field,physical cleanliness can also eliminate the threat information and realize the function of protecting the integrity of self.Therefore,this study attempts to explore the integrity of body cleansing in the face of self-threat.Research on the threat of physical cleansing is focused on individual self-threats at the individual level and less on the relevant studies of self-threat at the group level.This study will carry out in-depth experimental research and exploration on the role of body cleansing in different levels of self-threatening situations.Study is a choice in self threats from groups of context to explore their bodies,namely in mathematics-girls stereotype threat situation,physical cleaning after the math test scores of people and emotional cognitive what happens.In this study,the effect of body cleansing in the context of the whole self-threat was studied,which was to investigate the effect of physical cleansing behavior on cognition in the context of self-concept threat.According to the process logic,self-esteem can through to the other important values and certainly reduce self negative feedback threat information,and once the hands,this effect will be weaken.Therefore,the study of the three studies on the basis of thetwo studies to increase the affirmation of self-values,to explore whether the physical cleansing behavior will weaken the self-affirmation to the negative cognition elimination effect.The experimental results show that the math-female stereotype threat results in lower scores of girls' math test scores and lower emotional evaluation scores.The self-concept threat also leads to the low self-evaluation of the related quality.Physical cleaning behavior can significantly improve girls' scores in the math test and emotional cognition,as well as improve individual scores on self-evaluation.The results of the third study also show that body cleansing can eliminate the negative effects of threat information on self-integrity through the affirmation of self-values.According to the results of the comprehensive analysis,it can be seen that the body cleaning plays a role of protecting self-integrity under the condition of self-threat,and plays a role of self-affirmation.