The Influence Of Emotional Mindset On College Students’ Emotional Attention Bias

Emotional mindset refers to the extent to which an individual believes that their emotions are controllable and variable.It is an individual’s inner belief about their own emotions.It mainly includes two types: emotional growth mindset and emotional fixed mindset.Existing studies have shown that compared with emotional growth mindset individuals,individuals with fixed emotional mindset have higher negative emotional experience,lower emotional regulation ability and social adaptation level.The individual’s emotional mindset will also affect the individual’s attention processing.Based on this,this study aims to examine the influence of emotional mindset on the attentional processing of emotional information.Study 1 uses the dot-probe paradigm to explore the attentional bias of individuals with different emotional mindset to emotional pictures of different valences.Using the pictures of different valence scenes from the International Affective Picture System as experimental materials,the participants are top 27% and the bottom 27% of emotional mindset scores.The results of the study show that the attentional bias score of emotional fixed mindset college students to negative emotional pictures is significantly greater than 0.A score greater than 0 indicates that the individual has an attentional bias to the stimulus,and a score less than 0 indicates that the individual has no attentional bias to the stimulus.The results show that There is an obvious attentional bias to negative emotional pictures among college students with fixed emotional mindset.Study 2 explores the attentional bias of negative emotional faces and its specific components among college students,using the dot-probe paradigm and the Chinese Facial Affective Picture System as experimental materials.The results show that the attentional bias score of college students with fixed emotional mindset is significantly greater than 0,this shows that college students with fixed emotional mindset have an obvious attentional bias on negative emotional faces;The index DI was significantly greater than 0,which indicated that the specific component of the negative face attention bias of college students with fixed emotional mindset was difficulty in disengaging attention.Study 3 introduces feedback situations to explores the attention bias and specific components of emotional fixed mindset college students to negative faces under different stimulus presentation times(500 ms and 14 ms),as well as students’ task performance after attentional bias occurs,which uses the dot-probe paradigm and Chinese Facial Affective Picture System as experimental materials.The results show that when the 500 ms stimulus is presented,the attention bias score of the emotional fixed mindset students to negative faces is significantly greater than 0,and the index DI is significantly greater than 0,which shows that when the immediate feedback exists,the emotional fixed mindset college students haves disengaging attention from negative faces under 500 ms.The results also show that the correct rate of students with emotional growth mindset is significantly higher than that of college students with fixed mindset,which shows that the disengaging attention from negative faces affects college students with fixed mindset and their task performance.The main conclusions of the current research:(1)Compared with the emotional growth mindset college students,the emotional fixed mindset college students have attention bias to negative emotional information.(2)The main component of the attentional bias of negative emotional information of college students with fixed emotional mindset is difficulty in disengaging attention.(3)Under the feedback situation,college students with a fixed mindset had difficulty in disengaging attention from negative emotional faces only in the conscious information processing mode(500ms).Future research should reveal the physiological mechanism of attentional bias to negative emotional information in individuals with emotional fixed mindset and how it affects the individual’s emotional experience and social adaptation level.