Attentional processing of verbal emotional information in college students with subclinical depression
10.3969/j.issn.1000-6729.2025.11.10
- VernacularTitle:亚临床抑郁大学生言语情绪信息的注意加工特点
- Author:
Yutong LI
1
;
Siwen ZHENG
1
;
Xueli WANG
1
;
Xin YUE
1
Author Information
1. 辽宁师范大学心理学院,辽宁大连 116029
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
subclinical depression;
attentional bias;
attentional disengagement;
verbal emotional information
- From:
Chinese Mental Health Journal
2025;39(11):988-993
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To examine the attentional processing of verbal emotional information in college students with subclinical depression.Methods:Fifty college students were recruited(24 with subclinical depression group and 26 in the control group)were recruited from a university in Liaoning Province to investigate the atten-tional bias of subclinically depressed college students towards verbal emotional information(experiment 1).In addi-tion,48 college students(20 with subclinical depression and 28 in the control group)were recruited to investigate the attention disengagement of subclinically depressed college students from verbal emotional information(experi-ment 2).In experiment 1,two groups passively viewed words and recorded the eye movement data of emotional words.In experiment 2,two groups were asked to watch the emotional word-neutral word pair.When color borders were presented around neutral words,the attention disengagement latency that was the time taken by the eye saccade from emotional words to neutral words was recorded.Results:The results of experiment 1 showed that the total fix-ation duration of negative words in the subclinical depression group was longer than that in the control group(P＜0.01).The results of experiment 2 showed that attention disengagement latency of negative words in the subclinical depression group was longer than that in the control group(P＜0.05).Conclusion:College students with subclini-cal depression exhibit attentional bias towards negative verbal information and difficulties in attentional disengage-ment.
