Attention Bias Of Social Media Addicted College Students Towards Social Informatio

The development of the Internet and the popularity of social media have greatly affected people’s communication and communication,enhancing social connection and happiness.However,excessive use of social media may lead to obvious negative psychological effects.At present,more and more studies have taken into account the negative harm brought by such excessive use,and gradually regard it as an addictive behavior.Existing studies on behavioral addiction mostly focus on prominent features opposite to substance addiction,such as attentional bias.However,current studies on attentional bias in social media addiction have presented inconsistent results.This study further explores whether social media addiction maintains the same characteristics as substance addiction.Studies on substance addiction have found that the essence of addicts’ attentional bias to material cues is strong automatic priority processing and impaired prefrontal cortex inhibitory function.However,whether social media addiction has the same or similar mechanism pattern is not clear,and this study intends to investigate this problem.In conclusion,this study mainly discusses two kinds of attentional bias of college students with social media addiction to specific social information.In experiment 1,the visual oriented saccade task reflecting the characteristics of priority processing was used to explore the attention bias of college students with social media addiction to indirect social information by using the ICONS of mobile applications as materials.Thirty-one subjects in the addiction group and 31 in the normal group were recruited,and a mixed experimental design of 2(group: addiction group vs.normal group)×2(stimulus type: social stimulus vs.non-social stimulus)was adopted.The results showed that the number of gaze of the addicted group was significantly higher than that of the non-social stimulus,and the first arrival time of the addicted group was significantly lower than that of the non-social stimulus.There was no such difference in the normal group.The results confirm that college students with social media addiction have a preference for processing social information.In experiment 2,the compulsive attention bias of college students with social media addiction to social information was investigated by using the directed bias inhibition task which directly measured the inhibitory attention bias.Thirty-three addicted and 34 normal subjects were recruited,and a mixed experimental design of 2(group: addicted vs.normal group)×2(stimulus type: social vs.non-social stimulus)was adopted.The results showed that the interruption of social stimuli was significantly higher in the addiction group than in the non-social stimuli.The results of this study revealed the existence of compulsive compulsive disorder(inhibitory impaired attentional bias)in college students with social media addiction.Based on the above two experimental results,this study draws the following conclusions:College students with social media addiction have an attention bias towards indirect social information represented by social ICONS.And this attentional bias is manifested as the preferential processing attentional bias for specific social stimuli and the difficulty in inhibiting specific social stimuli,namely the impaired inhibitory attentional bias.