Lin Guozhi,Deng Guanghui,Jing Min,Jin Xiao.Attentional bias of low trait anxiety college students with or without fear-induced mood to emotional faces[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2010,32(01):67-70.
Lin Guozhi,Deng Guanghui,Jing Min,Jin Xiao.Attentional bias of low trait anxiety college students with or without fear-induced mood to emotional faces[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2010,32(01):67-70.DOI:
Objective To investigate the attentional bias for emotionally faces in subjects with low-trait anxiety when they are under normal or induce-fear emotion. Methods Trait anxiety inquiry (T-AI) were used to evaluate the mental health status of 480 freshman in a university
and 450 valid questionnaires were obtained. Among them
90 students were identified as low trait anxiety. Sixty students from them were randomized into 2 group (n=30) to receive a dot-probe task with emotional face as stimulus. They were asked to judge the target. The attentional bias under normal or fear-induced emotion to the emotionally faces was examined.Results Low trait anxious college students showed attentional avoidance to the negative faces when they were under normal emotion [D=(-11.09±25.40)
t=-2.391
P=0.024]
and the orientation was significant [OI=(-20.28±22.90)
t=-4.850
P0.01]. However
the attentional avoidance disappeared when they were under fear-induced emotion [D=(3.73±25.28)
t=0.794
P0.05]. Conclusion Low trait anxious college students have attentional avoidance to negative faces because of orientation
but the avoidance will disappear when they are under fear emotion.