Abstract

For exploring the cognitive mechanism of aggression in adolescents, two studies had been done. In study 1, 5th and 6th grade(N=20), 8th grade(N=20), and high school juniors(N=20) watched the film and then were asked to judge the ambiguous scenes whether they were aggressive or not. Comparing with the neutral film, for the high school juniors more aggressive thoughts were activated after viewing the aggressive film. The second study was aimed at the social information processing of the aggressive adolescents. Among 261 high school juniors the aggressive group(N=46) and nonaggressive group(N=47) were selected. They were presented 5 ambiguous problem situations, and asked to judge them and to write the response. In the results, comparing with the nonaggressive group, the aggressive adolescents judged those situations as aggressive one, generated more aggressive responses and evaluated the agressive behaviors as the positve one. Concerning the social information processing of the agressive film in the aggressive adolescent, futher research in the future is needed.