Research On The Influence Of Ego-depletion On College Students' Implicit Altruism

Self-control plays an extremely important role in the individual's lifelong development.It is an indispensable factor for individuals to adapt well to the society and promote their own better development.But in real life,the failure of self-control also appears from time to time.According to the strength model of self-control,the individual's self-control process consumes limited mental energy.If the energy is not supplemented in time,it will be in a state of ego-depletion(self-control failure),and it will often show a negative effect on subsequent tasks,such as the reduction of altruism behavior.However the previous studies on altruism behavior after ego-depletion mostly adopted the dictator's task paradigm,conduct explicit altruistic behavior exploration,and rarely studied the attitude of implicit altruism after ego-depletion.Secondly,there is also a lack of exploration of implicit altruism after ego-depletion in individuals with different traits.Finally,previous studies have confirmed that the induction of empathy can effectively improve the individual's implicit altruism attitude,then whether it can also improve the ego-depletion individual's implicit altruism in his attitude? It is also highly explore valuable.Based on this,this study aimed at undergraduate students,using the classic Stroop paradigm to deal with the subject's high and low ego-depletion processing,and using the implicit association test(IAT)research paradigm to measure the subject's implicit altruism.Firstly,it explores the influence of ego-depletion on the undergraduates' implicit altruism.Randomly selected 50 college students,divided into two groups for high and low ego-depletion tasks,and then measured his implicit altruism attitude.Secondly,to explore the undergraduates who have different self-control abilities and their attitude of implicit altruism after ego-depletion.Using the Self-Control Scale(SCS)to screen high and low levels of self-control of a total of 97 students in the two groups,conducted 2(high self-control vs low self-control)×2(high ego-depletion vs low ego-depletion)two-factor experimental design,Measure different self-control ability of college students,the implicit altruism attitude after the different ego-depletion;Finally,induce empathy to interfere with ego-depletion college students.Using the Self-Control Scale(SCS)to screen high and low levels of self-control of a total of 110 students in the two groups,conducted 2(high self-control vs low self-control)× 2(high ego-depletion vs low ego-depletion)two-factor experimental design,After the subject's have performed ego-depletion tasks,they will join the empathy process.Explore the impact of ego-depletion on the implicit attitude of individuals under the influence of empathy.Taking the above framework as a research orientation,this study has obtained the following conclusions:1.Undergraduates' implicit altruism is affected by ego-depletion.Subjects with low ego-depletion show higher tendency toward implicit altruism than those with high ego-depletion,and this effect is not affected by the individual's emotional state.There is no gender difference in his implicit altruism under ego-depletion conditions.2.Different levels of self-control,his implicit altruism inclinations after ego-depletion are different,that is,the group with high self-control shows that the attitude of implicit altruism after high ego-depletion is significantly lower than that of individuals with low ego-depletion;Individuals with a lower self-control level have no significantly difference in their attitude toward implicit altruism after ego-depletion.3.After induction of empathic conditions,it can compensate for the difference in implicit altruism caused by ego-depletion.