The Influence Of Self-depletion On Aggressive Behavior: The Moderating Effect Of The Healing Environment

Self control is a unique characteristic of human beings.It has a profound impact on our production and life.However,according to the self--control strength model and the attention restorative theory,people's cognitive resources such as self-control resources and attention are limited.They are easily exhausted in the task of continuous use of directional attention resources or in the task of self-control effort.Emotion and behavior.Some researchers have found that people have increased impulsive behavior after ego depletion,more sensitive to provocative clues and even more generalized,aggravating the harm to innocent people and showing more aggressive behavior.In order to supplement or restore the resources that are self-consuming,it is necessary to find ways to alleviate ego-depletion effects.According to the two major theories of restorative environment(stress reduction theory and attention restorative theory),the green environment is restorative.Previous studies have also found that exposure to green environ,ment can alleviate aggressive behavior after social exclusion.which indirectly confirms the restoration of green environment.However,there are few direct empirical studies on ego depletion,environmental type and attack behavior,and there is a lack of ego depletion to explain the causality of the three.In view of this,this study,guided by the self-control strength model and two theories of restorative environment,systematically explores the effect of ego depletion on attack behavior and the role that the restorative environment plays in the relationship between ego-depletion and attack behavior and the possible mechanism of action.In this paper,the relationship between ego depletion,restorative environment and aggressive behavior is systematically examined by means of experimental research in college students.In this study,the subjects of medium attack level were screened by active and reactive attack scale,and then through the control of ego-depletion state and its paradigm(experiment one Stroop task,experiment two delimit task),the ego depletion on cognition(attention),emotion and different types of attack(using Taylor attack)was explored.The influence of' the experimental paradigm to measure.Study two included two sub experiments,and experiment three was designed by single factor experiment.By manipulating the viewing environment type,the remission of restorative environment for after ego-depletion was explored.Experiment four used 2(ego-depletion state:high,low)x 2(environmental type:green,grey)between subjects.The experimental design,through the control of the ego-depletion state and the viewing environment type,further explores the regulating effect and mechanism of the restorative environment on the attack behavior after the different ego-depletion states.The results were as follows:(1)the relationship between ego depletion and positive emotions and negative emotions is not significant,and this is not related to the types of ego-depletion.(2)ego depletion will reduce people's attention ability,and this may further increase the aggressive behavior.(3)ego depletion does affect subsequent attacks,but it has different effects on'different types of attacks.Ego depletion will aggravate subsequent reactive aggression,but has no significant effect on aggressive attack.(4)the green environment has its endogenous recovery.Regardless of whether the individual is in the ego-depletion state before,it can promote the rapid change of positive emotion after watching the green environment pictures;the exposure of green environment will promote the recovery of attention resources;it can also inhibit the reactive aggression after ego-depletion,but not significant to the active attack.(5)the inhibitory effect of green environment on the reactive attack after ego-depletion may be influenced by the positive emotions induced by the environment,and may also be the function of the recovery of directed attention resources promoted by the green environment.This study draws the following conclusions from the above results:(1)ego depletion does not increase negative emotion,nor does it change active aggression;but it can reduce the ability to pay attention and increase reactive aggression.(2)the green environment has the recovery.The exposure of green environment can alleviate the reactive aggression after ego-depletion,which can be used not only by the positive emotion induced by the environment but also by the recovery of the directed attention resource brought by the environment,which further validates the correctness of the two theories of the restorative environment.(3)the restorative effect of the restorative environment is limited.The exposure of green environment has no significant effect on the adequacy of resources and the recovery effect of aggressive behavior after ego-depletion.This study provides a referable method for alleviating ego-depletion,and the exploration of the essence of the ego depletion and its mitigation is helpful for people to better understand the benefits of green environment in cognition and emotion,and thus,take more active participation in protecting the environment and approaching the environment.And it is also beneficial to the construction of Ecological Society.