Empirical Research On Relationships Between Adolescents' Interpersonal Cognitive Bias And Interpersonal Adaptation

The present study investigated the general degree of interpersonal adaptation and interpersonal cognitive bias among Cantonese adolescents, and provided preliminary evidence for their relationship by using FNE,SAD, the Comprehensive Interpersonal Diagnosis Scale and Interpersonal Cognitive Bias Scale. On the ground of the relation study, we, then, explored how participants with high and low level of interpersonal adaptation produced attentional bias to words concerning to interpersonal relations and emotional faces in stressful situation. Finally, based on the attentional bias effect, we further studied the memory bias effect between adolescents with high and low level of interpersonal adaptation.The results showed that: (1) the global level of interpersonal adaptation among Cantonese adolescents was above average. Furthermore, female showed more fear to denial than male, and students from countryside suffered more social avoidance than those from the central urban. Generally, participants in this study were prone to evaluate their communicative information negatively. (2) The discriminative index d'of interpersonal cognitive bias inventory was negatively associated with fear of denial, social avoidance and interpersonal relationship, while the standard of judgment indexβwas also inversely associated with fear of denial and interpersonal relationship, and marginally significant with social avoidance. The discriminative index d' and judgment standardβof interpersonal cognitive bias accounted for 3.7%-16.7% variance of the three factors of interpersonal adaptation. (3) When using interpersonal words as experimental material, participants with high or low level of interpersonal adaptation both alerted to positive words and avoided negative words. (4) When using emotional faces as experimental material, participants with high or low level of interpersonal adaptation both alerted to faces that expressed positive emotion, but participants with high level of interpersonal adaptation alerted to faces with positive emotion, while low level group alerted to faces with negative expression. (5) In the stressful situation, participants with high level of interpersonal adaptation had sinificant memory bias effect on the positive interpersonal words, while low level group had it on the negetive interpersonal words.