英文摘要 |
Previous studies have found that social exclusion may be related to violent behavior in youngsters (Leary et al., 2003).The present study compared violent male adolescents and control groups (a non-violent adolescent group and a normal adolescent group) in terms of proactive-reactive aggression, rejection sensitivity, negative emotion regulation ability and threat-need after experiencing social exclusion. The computerized cyberball task, which presents a social game environment, was used to manipulate social inclusion and exclusion conditions. The results showed that the violent adolescents had higher proactive and reactive aggression scores than the two control groups. For rejection sensitivity, no significant differences were shown in anxiety and anger subscale scores among the three groups. The score for negative emotion regulation in violent adolescents was significantly lower than those in the control groups. This means the violent adolescents may not perceiveor understand the negative emotion information from others and have lower inhibitory control of negative emotions, and have inappropriate reactions when under pressure in social interactions. After experiencing social exclusion, the scores of belonging and meaningful existence in the violent adolescents were lower than those in the other two control groups. The violent adolescents may experience lower feedback from other people and consequently have a reduced sense of belonging. They may think they are notimportant in their group and so also have a lower sense of meaningful existence. This may mean they adopt violent behavior to get the attention of others, thus gaining a sense of belonging and an elevated feeling of meaningful existence. |