The Effects Of Ego-depletion On Aggressive Behavior In Primary School Students

Aggressive behavior is always an important concern for researchers.The phenomenon of aggressive behavior has gradually moved from adult society to primary school.It has attracted psychologists and sociologists.Aggressive behavior will be harmful to mental and physical health of primary school students.The attackers may be affected for a long time as well,finally,they may commit crimes in adulthood and affect the harmony and stability of the society.The country has also issued documents to protect the mental and physical health of primary school students,it attaches great importance to the aggressive behavior in children.In the strength of self-control mode,individuals will show ego-depletion when their self-control ability declines.It can cause more impulsive and aggressive behaviors.At present,the relationship between ego-depletion and aggressive behavior of primary school students still needs more discussion.Therefore,based on previous studies,we randomly selected primary school students aged 10-12 from a primary school in Wuhan as the research objects.They completed the preliminary experiment,experiment one and experiment two.Switching tasks was used in preliminary experiment to measure the switching loss value of 22 subjects who experienced the ego-depletion of high and low level.It proved the effectiveness of the Stroop task in manipulating the ego-depletion state of primary school students.Experiment one used Stroop task and dot-probe paradigm to study the attention-bias in 22 primary school students of high and low level of ego-depletion when they saw the aggressive vocabulary.Experiment two chose Stroop task and Hot Sauce Paradigm to explore the level of aggression of 22 primary school students who under the influence of the ego-depletion of high and low level.SPSS19.0 was used for Independent-Sample T Test in Experiment one and Two-way Repeated measures ANOVA in Experiment two.The following conclusions are obtained:(1)Primary school students who experience the ego-depletion of high level have an attention-bias when they see the aggressive vocabulary,while primary school students who experience the ego-depletion of low level have no attention-bias when they see the aggressive vocabularies.(2)There is a significant difference in the level of aggression of primary school students under different ego-depletion states.Primary school students who experience the ego-depletion of high level have more aggressive behaviors than those experience the ego-depletion of low level.