The Relationship Between The Characteristics Of Moral Emotions Of Junior High School Students And Their Personality Traits And Prosocial Behavior

Moral emotion is a kind of important social emotion,which has important meaning to the individuars social adaptation Early studies adapted children's real life situation to investigate children's moral emotion judgment and attribution characteristics,as well as the factors which influence them.From the point of view of the research object,the prior researches focused on the average children's judgment and attribution of moral emotion,but the research on the judgment and attribution of the special children is less.Deaf children,as a part of the special children,has its unique physiological and psychological development.Do hearing-impaired and hearing children's moral emotion judgment and attribution have same patterns?It needs further investigation.Further researches were focus on the limitations in the previous studies,the present research studied 172 hearing middle school students and 90 hearing-impaired students to explbre the different moral situations of hearing-impaired children and normal hearing children's moral emotion judgment and attribution characteristics,and to investigate the relationship between the individual judgment and attribution of moral emotion and personality characteristics,prosocial behavior by setting different moral situations,including physical injury,stealing and lying situation The aim is to provide a theoretical basis for individualized education in special schools.In study one,we investigated two kinds of children's moral emotion judgment and attribution characteristics and its differences in three committing situations.The result showed that:deaf students in junior middle school have master the certain moral rules,and they can make the correct moral judgment;compared to hearing students,hearing-impaired students make less guilt emotion judgment in moral emotion judgment task;in stealing and lying situations,there were differences between each grade,deaf students feel less mixed emotions(joy and fear)and more fear emotion with the growth of grade;there was no significant difference between deaf and hearing students' moral emotional attribution;deaf students' moral emotion attribution maintained a steady state in the junior middle school period.In study two,we used Chinese Big Five Personality Inventory brief version and Prosocial Tendencies Measure for Adolescent to investigate personality and prosocial behavior characteristics of deaf students and the relationship between the attribution of moral emotion,personality and prosocial behavior.The results showed that:deaf students'prosocial behavior was relatively low,emotional high;in the middle school period,there was no significant age trend of deaf students' prosocial behavior;the conscientiousness,agreeableness,openness and extraversion personality dimensions of deaf students were lower than that of hearing students;in the context of hurting and lying,the moral emotion attributions to victimizersignificantly moderated the relationship between personality and prosocial behavior of deaf students;in hurting situation,deaf students' moral emotion attributionto bystandercan directly predict their prosocial behavior,and it significantly moderated the relationship between their personality and prosocial behavior.Based on the above research,we draw the following conclusions:(1)The deaf students have mastered the certain knowledge of morality,and they can make the correct judgment on victimizers' behavior in different situations giving the corresponding morality reason,and there is no significant difference between deaf and hearing students;(2)With the growth of grade,deaf students make more fear emotion judgment;their attribution of moral emotion developed slowly,there was no significant difference between them in each grade;(3)Deaf students' prosocial behavior is lower than hearing students,which was easily affected by emotion;the prosocial behavior was stable with the growth of grade;(4)Deaf students' moral emotion attribution moderated the relationship between their personality and prosocial behavior.