Attentional Bias To Threat Information Of Junior School Students With Different Attachment Types

Attachment is proposed by the theory founder John Bowlby,it is the emotional connection that individuals and their main caregivers established in the process of interaction,the connection is very strong.One basic statement of attachment theory is that all human beings are born with an attachment behavior system aimed at maintaining proximity to attachment figures.Theoretically,attachment system is activated by he interaction of the external situation and the inner emotion and cognition.It is different between goals,needs,expectations,and strategies on different attachment types,and these cognitive component affects the information process of selective attention and memory.The attention of a large number of studies have shown that the bias of different attachment types affected by stress levels,the threat level of stimulate.The mysteries of different attachment types in bias will be revealed by investigating the influence of different factors on the bias.This research is on the base of the classic point detection experimental paradigm.the study is based on the affects of attachment types,stress level and the threat level of stimulate,and measured by reaction time and the bias points.The material of experiment(high threat information,low threat information and neutral information)is selected from Chinese affective picture system(CAPS)which has ecological efficiency.According to Brennan's experiences in close relationships(ECR),pick 112 students from 300 eighth grade students,including 56 as participants in the normal condition,each group have 14;56 as participants of pressure situation,each group have 14.The result indicated that:(1)First,under no pressure condition,in the 500 ms rendering time,secure attachment students have no bias in both high threat information and low threat information;dismissing attachment students,fearing attachment students and preoccupied attachment students showed attention bias only in high threat information.(2)Second,under pressure condition,in the 500 ms rendering time,different attachment types of students all showed attention bias in high threat information and low threat information.There is no difference in attentional bias between high and low information of secure attachment students.There is no difference in attentional bias between high and low information of dismissing attachment students,fearing attachment students and preoccupied attachment students,but it is signficant with secure attachment students,and also not signficant between the three.(3)The preference difference of secure attachment students is not significant as compared to normal condition.The other groups shows significant difference as compared to normal conditions,but it is not significant between them.