Characteristics Of Cognitive Bias In College Students With Different Levels Of Resilience

Resilience is considered as an important indicator of mental health and adaptive capacity.It's an ability that allows people to cope with adversity and stress successfully.Whether individuals with resilience can deal with various life stress events effectively is of great significance.Unfortunately,that there are only a few studies focusing on the cognitive characteristics of resilient people.Moreover,most of them are about attentional bias,rarely focusing on memory bias or interpretive bias.Exploring individual's cognitive process of facing different stimuli will contribute to further understand the characteristics of people's dealing with stress,setbacks and adversities,as well as recognizing stress correctly and guiding people to produce adaptive emotional reactions.In that way,researchers can promote resilient by proposing feasible suggestions.Therefore,this thesis aimed at studying characteristics of cognitive bias in college students with different resilience.It's planned to explore their attentional bias,memory bias and interpretive bias through five studies.The first study concentrated on the attentional bias.The Study 1 adopted selfreported questionnaires to explore the relationship between resilience and positive and negative attentional bias.Experiment 1 used the clue-target paradigm to compare the attention characteristics to threat pictures of different degree.In Experiment 2,the eye movement free browsing paradigm was used to compare time-course attention characteristics to emotional faces with different values.By using pictures with different threat degree and different valence,Study 2 concentrated on the memory bias through study-test pattern,including two experiments.By adapting self-related and other-related fuzzy situational judgments,Study 3 concentrated on the interpretive bias.The results of the above studies indicate that:(1)resilience has significant positive correlation with self-reported positive attentional bias,while significant negative correlation with negative attentional bias;(2)students with different resilience show different patterns of attentional bias: for positive faces,the high and low resilient groups show attention vigilance,while those with medium resilient group doesn't show obvious attentional bias.For negative faces,the low group shows vigilancemaintenance attentional pattern,the high group shows attentional avoidance and the medium group doesn't show obvious attentional bias too;(3)The results of Study 4 show no effect of resilience in memory bias;(4)Study 5 shows that not only the explanations chosen by all subjects are positive,but also the higher level of resilience,the more positive the explanation.