The Alignment Of Different Motivations Of Emotion And Working Memory Tasks And Cognitive Styles Have An Effect On Self Control Resources

With positive emotions and verbal working memory domains being consistently activated by a goal related to social interaction may develop into a functional relationship between positive emotions and verbal working memory(Beckes & Coan, 2011). With negative emotions and spatial working memory being consistently activated by a goal related to threat or error detection may develop into a functional relationship between negative emotions and spatial working memory(Mather & Sutherland, 2011). When emotion promotes cognitive tendencies that are goal incompatible with task demands, greater cognitive effort is required to perform well, and self-control resources become depleted, impairing behavioral control, that is condition of emotion-cognition misalignment(e.g., approach/spatial, withdrawal/verbal),when emotion promotes cognitive tendencies that are goal compatible with task demands, less cognitive effort is required to perform well, improving behavioral control, that is condition of emotion-cognition alignment(e.g., approach/verbal, withdrawal/spatial)(Storbeck, 2012;Storbeck, Davidson, Dahl, Blass, & Yung, 2015). According to the motivational dimensional model of affect, affect can be divided into approach-motivated positive states and withdrawal-motivated negative states. Thus, the current research examined whether self-control resources become depleted and influence subsequent behavior when Emotions different in the dimension of motivational intensity tunes an inappropriate cognitive tendency.Experiment1 examined whether self-control resources become depleted and influence subsequent behavior when participants perform verbal working memory or spatial working memory under high and low approach-motivated positive emotions. Experiment2 examined whether self-control resources become depleted and influence subsequent behavior when participants perform verbal working memory or spatial working memory under high and lowwithdrawal-motivated negative emotions. Experiment3 examined whether self-control resources become depleted and influence subsequent behavior when participants different in cognitive styles perform verbal working memory or spatial working memory under low approach-motivated positive emotion.Experiment1 suggested that under low approach-motivated positive state, after performing verbal working memory, Stroop score was lower than under spatial working memory, under high approach-motivated positive state, after performing verbal and spatial working memory, Stroop scores were nonsignificant. That is, low approach-motivated positive state and verbal working memory are emotion-cognition alignment, promoting behavioral control. Experiment2 suggested that under low withdrawal-motivated negative state, after performing spatial working memory, Stroop score was lower than under verbal working memory, under high withdrawal-motivated negative state, after performing verbal and spatial working memory, Stroop scores were nonsignificant. That is, low withdrawal-motivated negative state and spatial working memory were emotion-cognition alignment, promoting behavioral control. Experiment3 suggested that under low approach-motivated positive state, after performing verbal working memory, Stroop score was lower than after performing spacial working memory in field-dependent participants, after performing verbal and spacial working memory, Stroop scores were nonsignificant in field-independent participants. That is, field-dependent participants were affected by low approach-motivated positive state and working memory compatibility.Taken together, These results showed that the effect of emotion-cognition compatibility on self control resources affected by motivation dimensions, low approach-motivated positive emotions and verbal working memory, low withdrawal-motivated negative state and spatial working memory were emotion-cognition alignment condition, self-control resources become saved, promoting behavioral control. The results extended the motivational dimensional model and depended the study of emotion and working memory compatibility to a certain extent.