Effects of trait anxiety and embodied emotions priming on attention bias in college students
10.3969/j.issn.1000-6729.2025.10.14
- VernacularTitle:特质焦虑和具身情绪启动对大学生注意偏向的影响
- Author:
Wenyi CHEN
1
;
Lijun MA
1
;
Huiyuan HUANG
1
;
Jiabao LIN
1
;
Bingqing JIAO
1
Author Information
1. 广州中医药大学公共卫生与管理学院,广州 510006
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
trait anxiety;
attentional bias;
embodied emotion;
dot-probe task;
body posture
- From:
Chinese Mental Health Journal
2025;39(10):922-928
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To explore the characteristics of attention bias and the role of embodied emotion prim-ing in college students with different traits of anxiety.Methods:From 2 310 college students,28 from low trait anxi-ety group and 30 from high trait anxiety group were selected based on the scores of the Trait Anxiety Scale.The at-tention bias index,attention orientation index and attention detachment difficulty index were calculated by point de-tection experiment.By asking two groups of subjects to change their body posture to induce embodied emotion,and then responding to the location of the detection point,the effects of embodied emotion priming on the attention bias of college students with different traits of anxiety were investigated.Results:The point detection experiment found that the attention detachment difficulty index of negative emotional faces in the high trait anxiety group was signifi-cantly greater than 0,and the attention orientation index of positive emotional faces in the low trait anxiety group was significantly greater than 0(Ps＜0.05).The attention bias index for positive emotional faces in low trait anxie-ty group was significantly higher than that in high trait anxiety group(P＜0.05).Under embodied negative prim-ing,the attention bias index of negative emotional faces in low trait anxiety group was significantly greater than 0(P＜0.05).The attention orientation indices of negative emotional faces were significantly higher than that of posi-tive emotional faces in both groups(P＜0.05).Conclusion:College students with high trait anxiety have difficulty in escaping attention to negative faces,while those with low trait anxiety have accelerated attention orientation to positive emotional faces.Embodied negative priming may have a greater impact onattention bias of towards negative emotional faces in students with low trait anxiety.
