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The Attention Bias For Emotional Information Of College Students In Different Attachement Styles And Its' Educational Values

Posted on:2011-03-31Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330332470795Subject:Development and educational psychology
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Attachment is an important mode of adaptation and survival, and it is the result of human evolution as well. The internal working models, which are formed on the base of the individual's attachment history, direct the cognitive, the affect, and the behavior of the individual in relational context. It is seen as the internalization of attachment styles. With the introduction of social cognitive paradigms into the field of adult attachment research, there is growing concern about the individual differences during the cognitive process between different attachment styles. While the research on the mechanism that the internal working models study is still at a start level.Using positive words, proximity words, distance words, negative words, neutral words as target, and this research is conducted to test the attention bias of emotional information between people with different attachment styles with the condition of RSVP paradigm. This study also combines different attachment styles of individual social support, contact the family and school education, the actual conduct of a comprehensive analysis of the following conclusions:1. Individuals show significant AB effect not only in stress situations but also in no-stress situations. And individuals show high sensitivity with the information related to attachment.The AB effect of neutral words is the strongest, the effect of negative words and positive words is weaker, the weakest is the effect of proximity words and distance words.2. Under the stress situations, the individual attachment system activation will increase the sensitivity of attachment about the attention of relevant information.3. Every kinds of attachment style show significant AB effect on every kind of target words. The AB effect of neutral words is the strongest; the effect of negative words and positive words is weaker. The weakest is the effect of proximity words and distance words. 4. There is no significant differences on attachment styles of different individuals in an objective support, but in the subjective support for secure attachment ones is significantly higher than the non-secure attachment ones.By combining the research result and educational practice together, this research also puts forward some suggestions. During education process positive attachment related information should supersede negative attachment related information. Providing objective emotional support based on student attachment style and the activation situation of attachment system, in order to increase the relevance of education.
Keywords/Search Tags:internal working model, attachment styles, attentional blink, attention bias, social support
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