The Studies Of The Effects Between Positive Emotions And The Attentional Bias Of Trait Anxiety College Students

Anxiety links the characteristics of a person's cognition closely. The studies of domestic and foreign scholars showed that, clinical anxiety disorders and non-clinical high trait anxiety (collectively referred as anxiety) on the negative emotional information have more attention tendency manifested as negative emotional information, or from the difficulties of priority attention. Fox, who prompted paradigm through the use of space experiments and found clues in the invalid cue threatening, the high anxiety subjects tasks' reaction time is longer, compared the conditions of positive cues and neutral cues, it indicats that the subjects of anxiety coming out from the threat stimuli difficultily. Experimental study by Fredrickson et al found that positive emotions will expand the scope of individual attention, thus contributing to the transition between different tasks faster. The study of combining positive emotions with the attentional bias examines the effects between attention bias and positive emotions, which for the anxiety has important practical significance.In this study, based on previous research, selected 28 high trait anxiety and 30 low trait anxiety from 830 students by trait anxiety in the questionnaire, which from Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. In the first study, Fox and others with attention shift paradigm variant appeared to be randomly tested for negative emotional pictures in four directions, up and down about the letters to determine targets and tasks to determine a positive emotion before the start. This experiment studies whether the positive emotions tend to influence the attention of anxiety. In the second study, an experimental paradigm in research and tasks, based on the experimental materials into different arousal negative emotion picture, and further examine the positive emotions of anxiety influence the attention of the law of bias.Conclusions of this study as follows:1. In the condition without priming, individuals with high trait anxiety have the attentional bias on the negative emotion of individual pictures, compared with low trait anxiety. With positive emotions priming, the task's reaction time of individuals with high trait anxiety and low trait anxiety is longer, compared individuals without emotion priming. With positive emotions priming, the high trait anxiety individual still has the attentional bias on the negative images, the task response time is longer than the low trait anxiety individuals', and there is a significant difference.2. In the condition without emotion priming, on the higher the arousal of negative emotion pictures, high and low trait anxiety individuals in the task did not show significant differences in reaction time, and on the low arousal and negative emotional arousal pictures, high trait anxiety individuals show the attentional bias.3. In the condition of positive emotion priming, high trait anxiety individuals and low trait anxiety individuals in low-arousal negative emotional pictures have not significant difference on the reaction time of task; and on the mid-arousal and high arousal negative emotion pictures, high trait anxiety individuals show attentional bias.