Effects Of Different Emotional Regulation Modes On Directed Forgetting Of Individuals With State Anxiety

In psychological counseling,many visitors are susceptible to life events and become more anxious than ordinary people,which we call state anxiety.Previous studies have confirmed that anxiety individuals have negative cognitive bias,that is to say,state anxiety individuals are more sensitive to negative emotional information,which will lead them into a vicious circle of persistent anxiety.If we adopt the paradigm of directed forgetting combined with emotional regulation strategy,can we improve the mood of individuals with state anxiety and break this vicious circle?Can emotion affect cognition,and can emotional regulation affect cognition?According to the limited theory of cognitive resources,emotional regulation consumes cognitive resources,and directed forgetting consumes cognitive resources.So they have a competitive relationship.When emotional regulation and directed forgetting compete for cognitive resources,will the directed forgetting effect be weakened? Cognitive reassessment is known to be causal regulation.It is an automatic process in the experiment.It does not need to consume too much cognitive resources.Therefore,the directed forgetting effect will be enhanced when subjects adopt cognitive regulation.Emotional catharsis belongs to response regulation,which takes place after the occurrence of emotions.It needs to consume more cognitive resources to regulate emotions and squeeze the cognitive resources needed for directed forgetting.Therefore,we assume that the effect of directed forgetting will become worse.Based on the above,this study assumes that the orientation effect can also occur under the condition of state anxiety.But the effect of directed forgetting is weakened.When subjects adopt cognitive reappraisal to regulate their emotions under state anxiety,their directed forgetting ability will be enhanced.The directed forgetting effect will be weakened when subjects adopt the method of expressioncatharsis to regulate their emotions under state anxiety.Emotional catharsis and cognitive reappraisal will restore directed forgetting ability,and cognitive reappraisal is better than expression catharsis.In order to verify the above assumptions,this study adopted the single-word directed forgetting paradigm,using emotional pictures as experimental materials.150 undergraduates were randomly selected as subjects.The 150 undergraduates were divided into five groups,30 in each group.There were two groups,30 in each group,and three groups,30 in each group in experiment 2.In experiment 1,a mixed design of 2(group: state anxiety group and normal group)x 2(picture type:positive and negative)x 2(instruction type: remember and forget)was adopted.The group was an inter-subject variable,the picture type and instruction type were an internal variable,and the dependent variable was recognition score.In experiment 2,a mixed design of 3(group: spontaneous adjustment group,expression catharsis group,cognitive reassessment group)x2(picture type:positive,negative)x2(instruction type: remember,forget)was adopted.The group was an inter-subject variable,the picture type and instruction type were an internal variable,and the dependent variable was recognition score.Before the beginning of the formal experiment,the experiment will cause the state anxiety of the subjects by watching movies.The experimental results show that watching movies can effectively trigger the state anxiety of the subjects.directed forgetting effect can also occur in the condition of state anxiety,but the effect of directed forgetting in the state anxiety group is worse than that in the normal group,that is,the subjects in the state anxiety group can remember more negative TBF items.And the state anxiety group also remembered more TBR items,because anxiety led to more focused attention and easier to remember materials consistent with emotional experience.When subjects were in state anxiety,the recognition performance of cognitive reappraisal group was better than that of spontaneous adjustment group.However,there was no difference in recognition performance between the expression catharsis group and the spontaneous regulation group.And the recognition performance of cognitive reappraisal group was better than that of expression catharsis group.That is to say,in the treatment of anxiety patients,in order to relieve the unhappy mood and forget the unhappy memory,the most effective way is to adopt cognitive reappraisal of emotional regulation...