The Moral Judgment Of Junior High School Students On Bullying Situations Under Different Social Distances

Along with the huge development of our country's economic society,social division is becoming more and more aggravated,which accounts for the arise of a sequence of social mentalities,and bullying behaviors deteriorate in recent years.Especially school bullying can lead to irreversible sequences for teenagers and their families,which cause the urgent study on school bullying intervention,and it is helpful to strive on this issue in different perspectives.Moral judgements are the recognition activities of individuals on right or wrong,noble or evil,they can provide prediction for moral behaviors.So,studying on bullying behaviors in the respect of moral judgements to investigate the effects of the objects 'helping behaviors can cast a new sight on bullying intervention.Individuals' moral judgements depend on the perceptions of their psychological distances,according to Construal Level Theory(CLT);as far as school be concerned,interpersonal relationship distance is the most apparent.Therefore,this research take social distance which is one dimension of psychological distance into account to inquire on the effects of different social distances on junior school students' moral judgements under bullying circumstances.This paper focuses on junior school students and contains three researches employing self-compiled �The Questionnaire of Moral Judgements under Bullying Circumstances�.Two sub-researches compose the first research aiming to study the effects of direct affective the priming and the cue priming of social distance respectively,and along with the relation between moral judgements and moral behavior intention;the second one take anger and disgust this two moral emotions as independent variables into account to investigate how emotion and cognition affect moral judgements;and the third one classify the research objects then select the victims and uninvolved to explore how bullying role and social distance affect moral judgement.The results are as follows:(1)Objects show social distance effects on moral judgements under bullying circumstances as spectators(despite direct affective priming and cue affectivepriming).That is individuals appear the more strict moral judgement when the social distance between ones and the victims that they can perceive is larger,and vice-versa.(2)In general,individuals show the most rigorous moral judgement on relational bullying,following by verbal bullying,and finally physical bullying.Meanwhile,the objects in higher grades appear the more rigid moral judgements on relational bullying and the less on physical bullying respectively.(3)There is a strong positive correlation between moral judgement and moral behavior intention,say,the stronger moral behavior intention,the more likely to help others.(4)Objects with affective priming of anger or disgust show the most strict moral judgement relative to reference group,in spite of the effects of social distance(5)The role of individual in bullying will affect one's moral judgement,when one is victim his moral judgement can be more rigid than the uninvolved regardless of social distance.