Enhancing Sensitivity And Attention Bias In Middle School Students:Mediating Effect Of Emotion Regulation

Middle school students are easily disturbed by the external environment when they are teenagers.They are more likely to have negative emotions in the face of negative stimuli,which further affects their cognitive processing of information and their adaptation to the environment.At this stage,middle school students are not yet mature in mind and fail to form a good ability to choose external stimuli.Therefore,it is very important to correctly guide their attention bias.External stimuli and personal traits will influence the generation of attention bias,and different personality types may have different attention bias for the same type of stimulus.At the same time,attention is a limited resource.With limited attention resources,which information is easier to choose?According to a study(Bradley,1997),compared with neutral information,positive information and negative information are more likely to occupy attention resources and be processed,leading to attention bias.Therefore,this study explores the relationship between enhanced sensitivity,emotional regulation and attention bias.In this study,398 middle school students were selected as subjects,and the following conclusions were drawn by using the BAS,BIS,APNI and erq-ca as research tools:(1)junior high school girls have more positive bias and adopt more cognitive reappraisal strategies;Junior middle school boys more use expression inhibition strategy;Eighth graders were more likely to use cognitive reappraisal strategies;Only children had more cognitive reappraisal strategies.(2)the higher the reinforcement sensitivity of middle school students,the higher the attention bias;Middle school students who used more cognitive reappraisal and less expression inhibition showed higher reward sensitivity and positive bias.Middle school students who expressed more inhibition and used less cognitive reappraisal showed higher level of negative bias.(3)reward sensitivity and cognitive reappraisal have significant predictive effects on attention bias(positive bias and negative bias);Reward sensitivity and expression inhibition had a significant preeffect on negative bias.(4)reward sensitivity influences attention bias(positive bias,negative bias)through cognitive reappraisal,and inhibits negative bias through expression.That is.emotion regulation is an important mediating factor of reward sensitivity affecting attention bias.