The Attentional Bias Of Students Of Different Level Of Implicit Self-esteem With Emotion Primed

People of different level of implicit self-esteem have different psychological characteristics and react differently. People of high level of implicit self-esteem react more initiatively and energetically on most of time on contracts with people of low level of implicit self-esteem. They have higher evaluation toward themselves too. This interesting phenomenon drew much attention of researchers. In the long history of people studying self-esteem, researchers found that people of different level of implicit self-esteem have different mental health condition. Besides, cognitive processing bias have been found in people with different level of esteem which became the important base of applicant research related to it. But the way people understand self-esteem changed because of the occurrence of implicit self-esteem which also led a wider filed of self-esteem research. Implicit self-esteem became the new preference of the researchers. Now this research aim to study the attentional bias of college students with different levels of implicit self-esteem, taking emotional face which has higher ecological validity as experimental material, on account of the shortage of related researches. And in the mean time, emotion will be considered.We collected twelve flim clips which can prime the emotion to make people happy or sad through an open questionnaire survey. Then we had 20 college students viewing all the film clips before they finished the Positive Affect and Negative Affect Scale. Thus, we picked the one made people happy most and the one made people sad most as the experimental material. After this, we began the formal experiment by recruiting 81 college students for the Implicit Association Test which screened us 44 students of high or low level of implicit self-esteem for the Dot-probe test. One week later, half of the 44 college students were made to view the positive film clip and the others negative film clip. Then they anticipated in the Dot-probe test again. We collected their accuracy rate and response time to study the attentional bias.Results are as follows:(1)when emotional stimulus appeared compared with neutral ones, students of high self-esteem have attentional bias over positive emotional face which didn’t happen between students of low self-esteem; (2)students of low self-esteem react more quickly over emotional stimulus than ones of high self-esteem when the paired faces have opposite emotions; (3)after the positive emotion was primed, attentional bias emerged to all students over positive faces and attentional bias over negative faces compared with positive ones also showed up after the negative emotion was primed.