Research Of High And Low Self-Differentiation Individual’s Attention Bias Under Emotional Priming

Since the Self-Differentiation, plus the importance of Self-Differentiation in individual’s mental adjustment and development process, researches about it has always received much attention. At the same time, study of relationship between emotion and recognize has become research hotspot in the area of emotion and cognition, especial research of emotion and attention bias. Study of these has been more consistent on,there is an attention bias of anxious to negative information. At the same time,in the theory of Self-Differentiation, low self-differentiation individuals are prone to show more anxiety behavior.This study focused on emotion priming and attention bias,to discuss the difference of high and low Self-differentiation individual’s attention bias in different emotion condition.The research includes two experiments. The first experiment hypothesis:low self-differentiation individuals show attention bias toward negative emotion stimulus. That means, compared to positive stimulus, the reaction time of low self-differentiation individuals to probe stimulus which appeared the place of negative emotion words is shorter, whereas on difference on high self-differentiation individuals. The self- differentiation scale will be applied in this experiment. There are 87 participants, in which 45 for high self-differentiation and 42 for low self-differentiation. The qualified participants will take part in the dot probe task. The second experiment hypothesis:under negative emotion priming, the reaction time of the low self-differentiation to the negative emotion words are shorter than to the neutral and positive words reflecting a kind of negative stimulus attention bias. But under positive emotion priming, the reaction time of the subjects hasn’t show difference. After 10 minutes when finished experiment 1, the subjects begin experiment 2.The findings show:(1) Without emotion priming, low self-differentiation individuals show attention bias to negative stimulus,whereas there is no differences among high self-differentiation individuals;(2) High self-differentiation individuals show apparent difference on three different emotion priming, whereas low self-differentiation individuals do not show those differences. (3) Compared to the positive emotion priming group and control group, under the negative emotion priming, both low and high self-differentiation individuals show that the reaction time to negative emotion words shorter than positive ones, but and high self-differentiation individuals. (4) Under negative emotion priming, both high and low self-differentiation individuals are show the same attention bias, individual with low self-differentiation individuals are prone to show attention bias., whereas no apparent change on high self-differentiation ones.(5)Under positive emotion priming, the difference of reaction time between high and low self-differentiation individuals is not apparent,but in terms of low self-differentiation ones, direction of attention bias had changed, showing avoidance to negative stimulus.