The Effect Of Emotion And Emotional Regulation Strategies On Attention Stability Among High-grade Pupils

Emotion regulation has been a hot issue in emotional psychology in recent years, therelationship betwwen emotion and cognition has been one of the major issues that manyresearchers concern. The previous study is mainly on the influence caused by emotion andemotional regulation strategies on memory, decision-making, and inference. However, thestudy of the influence of attention stability caused by the emotion and emotional regulationstrategies needs more attention. The experimental approach to reveal the emotion, emotionalregulation strategies how to impact on attention stability. It will help a clear understanding ofthe relationship between emotion and attention stability, help high-grade pupils to cultivateemotion regulation skills, enhance their attention stability, and have great theoretical andpractical significance.Experiment1, using a one-factor and between-subjects experimental design, examinedthe influence of different emotional states on attention stability. The experimental variableswere emotional states (positive, neutral and negative emotion). The independent variableswas attention stability index. Based on the smooth progression of the first experiment, thesecond experiment, using a between-subjects design of2(emotional states: positive, neutraland negative emotion)×3(emotional regulation strategies: cognitive reappraisal, control andexpression suppression), examined the influence of different emotional regulation strategiesin different emotional states on attention stability, including that the independent variableswas attention stability index.The result reveals that:(1) Different emotional states effectively influence attentionstability, neutral emotion group in terms of attention stability scored significantly higher thanpositive and negative emotion group, and negative emotion group scored significantly higherthan positive emotion group.(2) Emotional regulation strategies affect attention stabilitydifferently. Whether participants were under positive emotional state or under negativeemotional state, cognitive reappraisal group scored significantly higher than control groupand expression suppression group, but expression suppression group and control group had no significant difference on attention stability.