Attention And Memory Bias For Aggressive Information In Fragile Self-esteem Undergraduates

The relationship between self-esteem and aggression has always been the hot issue of psychology.But the conclusions had differences.The traditional viewpoint is that individuals with low self-esteem behavior more aggressively.Some researchers found high self-esteem is closely related to aggression.The psychologists put forward heterogeneity assumption of high self-esteem to explain the reason for the inconsistent conclusions.They suggest that the individuals with high self-esteem whose self-evaluation is positive,have self-doubt.Facing ego threats,they will behavior more aggressively.This study examines fragile high self-esteem undergraduates' attention and memory bias for aggressive information,to explore the relationship between self-esteem and aggression.First of all,Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale and Implicit Association Test are used to select fragile self-esteem undergraduates or the secure ones: the ones with high explicit self-esteem and high implicit self-esteem are divided into the secure group,and the others with high explicit self-esteem but low implicit self-esteem are the fragile high self-esteem group.Secondly,selecting dot-probe task to verify whether there is an attention bias for aggressive information in fragile high self-esteem undergraduates.Also we investigate whether the fragile high self-esteem group have selective memory for aggressive information.Subsequently,we explore whether there is a consistent relationship between aggressive attention bias and memory bias.Finally,through attention training,making fragile high self-esteem undergraduates orient away from aggressive information,studying the effect on their memory bias,we explore whether there is a causal relationship between the attention bias and memory bias.Pointing the conclusions of the present study :(1)The fragile high self-esteem undergraduates have attention bias for aggressive information.(2)The fragile high self-esteem undergraduates have memory bias for aggressive information.(3)Attention training can make the fragile high self-esteem undergraduates orient away from aggressive information.(4)There is a causal relationship between attention bias and memory bias for aggressive information.