Xu Shuhui, Fan Lu, Su Chunjing
Department of Psychology, School of Education, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China.
School of Educational Science, Ludong University, Yantai, China.
Front Psychol. 2022 Jul 1;13:923604. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.923604. eCollection 2022.
Legal consciousness is the individual consciousness which reflects legal phenomena. Well-developed legal consciousness plays a crucial role in informing citizens of his legal right and ability to exercise these rights, therefore forms certain connections of individuals and society, and its development is a key part of individual's socialization process. Here, we investigated the emotion aspect of legal consciousness (henceforth legal emotion) and tried to identify several factors affecting the development of legal emotion and several factors affected by legal emotion. A large sample of Chinese junior middle school students ( = 967) completed a battery of self-reported questionnaires regarding legal emotion, peer attachment, self-esteem, prosocial tendencies, and interpersonal trust. The results indicated that for early adolescents, peer attachment predicts both positive and negative legal emotion. Importantly, peer attachment affects legal emotion partially through self-esteem. We also showed that negative legal emotion acted as a mediator on the relationship between interpersonal trust and prosocial tendencies. The results provided important insights into the role of legal emotion, the emotion aspect of legal consciousness, in the social interactions and its potential psychological mechanism.
法律意识是反映法律现象的个体意识。成熟的法律意识在告知公民其法律权利以及行使这些权利的能力方面起着至关重要的作用，从而形成个体与社会之间的特定联系，其发展是个体社会化过程的关键部分。在此，我们研究了法律意识的情感方面（以下简称法律情感），并试图确定影响法律情感发展的若干因素以及受法律情感影响的若干因素。一大群中国初中生（n = 967）完成了一系列关于法律情感、同伴依恋、自尊、亲社会倾向和人际信任的自我报告问卷。结果表明，对于青少年早期而言，同伴依恋既能预测积极的法律情感，也能预测消极的法律情感。重要的是，同伴依恋部分地通过自尊影响法律情感。我们还表明，消极的法律情感在人际信任和亲社会倾向之间的关系中起中介作用。这些结果为法律情感（法律意识的情感方面）在社会互动中的作用及其潜在心理机制提供了重要见解。
