Negative Cognitive Processing Bias For Facial Expressions Of College Students With History Of Childhood Psychological Maltreatment

Psychological maltreatment refers to the development of the cognitive,emotional and psychological health of children after a long period of neglect,interference,intimidation,connivance and derogation by the main upbringing.Psychological maltreatment research is mostly limited to the detection rate and variable the model of psychological maltreatment.On the basis of the relationship between the degree of psychological maltreatment and negative cognitive bias in childhood,this study explored the cognitive processing(attention and memory)of emotional faces in children who were subjected to psychological maltreatment.This study includes three research,which are divided into four experiments.This research one adopts the questionnaire of Child Psychological Maltreatment Scale and the scale of Negative cognitive processing bias measure 600 students of university.In order to explore the relation between the degree of psychological maltreatment and negative cognitive processing bias.This research two(including experimental A and experimental b),the 4 x 4 emotional face matrix in this study was used as a background of 15 fully consistent faces and 1 inconsistent as the target face.Therefore,the naming way of the experimental material is "15 background face property,1 target face nature".On the premise of presenting different emotional face matrices,the visual search experimental paradigm is used to explore children who have long been in the environment of psychological maltreatment,and whether there is attention bias and attention bias to emotional faces after adults.Experimental a:2(experimental group: psychological maltreatment group and non psychological maltreatment group)x 5(experimental conditions: 15 neutral 1 happy,15 neutral 1 sad,15 neutral 1 anger,15 neutral 1 fear and 15 neutral 1 neutral);experimental b:2(experimental group: psychological maltreatment group and non psychological maltreatment group)x 5(experimental conditions:15 happy 1 neutral,15 sad 1 neutral,15 anger 1neutral,15 fear 1neutral and 15 neutral 1neutral).This research three,the experimental task of memory recognition,2(Group: psychological maltreatment group and non psychological maltreatment group)x 5(face type: happiness,anger,sadness,fear and neutrality)was designed.It is found that psychological maltreatment group has memory bias towards angry faces.This study finally draws the following conclusions:(1)Psychological maltreatment in childhood is positively correlated with the negative cognitive bias after adulthood.(2)Compared with the non psychological maltreatment group,the psychological maltreatment group had a vigilance phenomenon on the sad faces when searching for sad faces in the neutral environment.(3)Compared with the non psychological maltreatment group,the psychological maltreatment group had difficulty in separating attention from sad faces when searching for neutral faces in sad background.(4)Compared with non psychological maltreatment group,psychological maltreatment group had memory bias towards angry faces.