1.Attentional bias toward cyber-aggressive information in frustration situations in low self-esteem college students
Lihua ZHANG ; Dan WU ; Caibin DUAN
Chinese Mental Health Journal 2025;39(6):541-546
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.
2.Attentional bias toward cyber-aggressive information in frustration situations in low self-esteem college students
Lihua ZHANG ; Dan WU ; Caibin DUAN
Chinese Mental Health Journal 2025;39(6):541-546
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.
3.Attentional bias to aggressive words under self-threat priming in college students with different types of high self-esteem
Caibin DUAN ; Hui ZHOU ; Yu JIANG ; Hongyang ZHU ; Tong WANG ; Xinhui HUANG ; Dongwei JIAN
Chinese Mental Health Journal 2024;38(5):452-457
Objective:To investigate the characteristics of attention bias to aggressive information under self-threat priming in college students with different types of high self-esteem.Methods:A total of 650 college students were selected,and high self-esteem participants were selected through the Self Esteem Scale(SES).Then,43 partic-ipants were selected from different types of high self-esteem(fragile and safe)groups through the Implicit Associa-tion Test(IAT).Each group participated in Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices(SPM)with different difficulty levels to complete self-threat priming,and then completed the spatial cue experiment.When the cue was invalid,the attention bias was obtained according to the variation of the reaction time difference(RTI)between the subjects're-sponses to aggressive words and neutral words.Results:The RTI values of the fragile high self-esteem group were higher under high self-threat priming than that of the secure high self-esteem group(P<0.01).Under low self-threat priming,there was no significant difference in RTI values among different types of high self-esteem groups(P>0.05).Conclusion:Fragile high self-esteem group are more likely to develop attention bias towards aggressive words under high self-threat priming than that of secure high self-esteem group.

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