态度接种对青少年态度改变的影响

The Effectiveness of Inoculation on Teenagers' Attitude

目的:检验态度接种对青少年态度改变的影响。方法:整群抽取某校初二4个班的学生225名,测查安乐死态度,筛选113名对安乐死持反对态度的初二学生,按班级分为4组,每组约30人,分别接受不同的态度干预处理,两周后再次测查安乐死态度,探讨态度干预对青少年安乐死态度改变的影响。结果:在对待安乐死的态度上,干预后的各组被试存在显著的组间差异(F=26.180,P<0.001),事后检验表明,态度接种组与对照组的差异显著,态度接种组比对照组更倾向于保持原有态度;强烈攻击组与对照组存在显著差异,对照组更倾向于保持原有态度;对照组与组合干预组差异不显著。结论:态度接种有助于青少年维护原有态度、抵制态度改变,态度接种组更加坚信自己原有态度的正确性,而且,这种影响效应具有一定的持续性。

Objective：To examine the effectiveness of inoculation pretreatment on adolescents＇ attitude.Methods：To select 225 adolescents from four classes in the second grade of a junior middle school,to survey the euthanasia attitude by some items excerpted from suicide attitude questionnaire,then to choose 113 students as subjects who were against euthanasia from the above 225 adolescents.These subjects were divided into four groups and each group contain about 30 students.Subjects from four groups were exposed to different treatments on attitude and after two weeks they were required to complete euthanasia items again in order to examine the effectiveness of different interventions on adolescents＇ euthanasia attitude.Results：There were significant differences of euthanasia attitude among four groups（F=26.180,P〈0.001）.The results indicated by post hoc testing showed that the difference of euthanasia attitude between subjects exposed to refutational pretreatment and those in control group was significant,in other words,subjects exposed to a refutational pretreatment exhibited a significantly stronger belief that arguments against the truism was typically false than that not exposed to the pretreatment.The difference of euthanasia attitude between subjects exposed to a massive attack and those in control group was significant,and those in control group were inclined to maintain the original position.The difference of euthanasia attitude between subjects receiving pretreatment and attack and those in control group was not significant.Conclusion：This research confirms the effectiveness of inoculation to maintain adolescents＇ original opposition and resist the change.Subjects who received the pretreatment and no attack exhibits more confidence in the belief that all arguments against the truism are typically false,which indicates that the effectiveness of inoculation to maintain adolescents＇ attitude is persistent.