Attention Bias In Mobile Phone Addicted College Students And Its Mechanism Research

With the popularity of smart phones and the development of mobile Internet,mobile phone has been one of the items that cannot be without in the college students’ study and life. Due to improper use of mobile phone addiction caused, college students have been brought many physical and mental health problems. Mobile phone addiction has become a hot area which psychology researchers focus. Formly mobile phone addiction research focused mostly on the relationship between mobile-addiction levels and personality characteristics. Currently researchers gradually put focus on the differences in the cognitive processing characteristics between the mobile phone addictions and normal mobile phone users. Attention is the start of a cognitive processing, to explore the mobile phone addiction’s attention bias becomes especially key note characteristic.Adopted the way of scale measurement combined with experiments, this research attempts to explore the different between the normal use mobile phones college students and mobile phone addiction college students. Judging to mobile phone information and personal rating information and its mechanism. Experiment a in research one use of the probe detection task, using 2(mobile phone addiction level:mobile phone addiction group, the normal use of mobile phone group) * 2(words type: mobile phone related words, neutral words) of the two factors mixed experimental design to explore the college students for mobile phone addiction attention bias characteristics of information. Experiment b in research one using emotional stroop task, 2(mobile phone addiction level: mobile phone addiction group,the normal use of mobile phone group) * 3(words type: the positive evaluation relationships words, the negative evaluation relationships words, neutral words) two factors mixed experimental design. Research two using cue- target tasks, using 2(mobile phone addiction level; mobile phone addiction group, the normal use of mobile phones) * 2(cue type: valid, invalid) * 2(words type: mobile phone related words, neutral word) three factors mixed experiment design.Finally research conclusion is as follows:1) mobile phone addiction level affect college students’ attention to cell phone information bias, comparing the normal use of mobile phones they’re more likely to focus on mobile related words.2) mobile phoneaddiction level does not affect college students’ attention to interpersonal assessment information bias, both show the attention to interpersonal evaluation term negative bias.3)The mechanism of mobile-addiction’s attention bias to the phone-related information is attention disengagement but not attention facilitation. The normal user’s attention bias is neither attention disengagement nor attention facilitation.