Attentional bias toward cyber-aggressive information in frustration situations in low self-esteem college students
10.3969/j.issn.1000-6729.2025.06.11
- VernacularTitle:挫折情境下低自尊大学生对网络攻击性信息的注意偏向
- Author:
Lihua ZHANG
1
;
Dan WU
;
Caibin DUAN
Author Information
1. 辽宁师范大学心理学院,辽宁大连 116029
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
frustrating situations;
low self-esteem;
cyber-aggressiveinformation;
attentional bias
- From:
Chinese Mental Health Journal
2025;39(6):541-546
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To examine attentional bias and its characteristics of college students with different lev-els of self-esteem toward cyber-aggressive information versus cyber-neutral information in frustration situations.Methods:Totally 280 college students were selected,and 76 subjects in the high self-esteem group(27％of the top SES scores)and 76 subjects in the low self-esteem group(27％of the bottom SES scores)were screened with the Self-Esteem Scale(SES).A virtual intelligence test was used to manipulate the frustration situation,and two groups were subjected to a situation initiation with and without frustration,and completed a point-probe task to examine the attentional vigilance and attentional extrication difficulty components of the attentional bias of college students with high and low self-esteem in frustration situations.Results:In the frustration context,low self-esteem college students had shorter response times to cyber-aggressive words than to cyber-neutral words(P＜0.001),low self-esteem college students' attentional vigilance scores to cyber-aggressive words weregreaterthan0(P＜0.001),and there was no statistically significant difference in the scores of attentional dissociative difficulties to cyber-ag-gressive words between high and low self-esteem college students compared to 0(Ps＞0.05).Conclusion:Low self-esteem college students in frustration situations have a significant attentional bias toward cyber-aggressive infor-mation,mainly in the form of attentional vigilance.
