Purpose: To investigate the effect of gum chewing on the cognitive function of attention. Methods: Based on gum chewing habit, trait-anxiety variable, and different treatments(with or without gum chewing) during experiment,181 college students with good health were assigned to four groups GH (with chewing gum treatment and habit), GL (with chewing gum treatment, no habit), CH (no treatment,has habit) and CL (no treatment,no habit). Two attention tasks: Continuous Performance Test (CPT-AX) and Conjunctive Search Task (CST) were performed by all subjects in the laboratory.Results: Chewing gum during experiment had positive effect on attention performance, and the habit of gum chewing played an important role. Conclusion: Gum chewing had positive effect on attention performance, suggesting the effects mainly came from the familiarity of gum-chewing.

0.05).②The average scores of psychological abuse sub-scale scold and threaten dimension of the male students were higher than those of the female ones(P

Objective;To explore the relationship between exposure to violence and behavior problem among rural middle school students.Methods;A cross-section study was conducted in 3620 middle school students randomly selected from rural area.A questionnaire adapted from WHO Health and Life Experience investigation and Achenbach Children Behavior Checklist(CBCL) were used to measure the exposure to violence and behavior problems respectively.Results;Of the 3620 respondents,the prevalence rate of exposure to violence in past year was 33.8%(1225/3620).The prevalence rate of behavior problems averaged 14.3%(519/3620),and students victimized reported significantly more behavior problems than those no-victimized(22.4% vs 10.9%,P

Objective;To examine the correlation between A-type personality and time management disposition of normal college Students.Methods;Time Management Disposition Scale and the Scale of A-type Personality were administered to a sample of 526 college students.Results;Analysis showed significant positive correlation between A-type personality and time management disposition in college students(P

Objective;To explore the relationship among parents' negative punishment,children's self-concept,and children's social behaviors.Methods;Data were collected from questionnaires given to a sample of 612 children from primary and secondary schools and their parents.Results;The structural equation modeling results showed parents' negative punishments could influence children's social behaviors directly and indirectly.In the indirect approach,through the mediating role of children's self-concept,parents' negative punishments could make a negative role on children's pro-social and aggressive behaviors,and a positive role on children's withdrawn behavior.In the direct approach,parents' negative punishments could make a positive effect on children's pro-social,aggressive and withdrawn behavior directly.Conclusion;Children's self-concept plays a mediating role between the relationship of parents' negative punishments and children's social behaviors.

Objective;To explore the regulative effect of perceived social support between personality and mental health.Methods;With Perceived Social Support Scale,NEO Five Factor Inventory and General Health Questionnaire-GHQ 20,1800 college students from 9 Hunan colleges and universities were inverstigated.Results;①Significant positive correlation existed between the factors of GHQ-20 and NEO-N,while significant negative correlation between the factors of GHQ-20 and NEO-E,NEO-C and all factors of perceived social support;perceived social support and its factors had significant negative correlation with NEO-N,while significant positive correlation with NEO-E and NEO-C.②There was significant interaction effects between perceived social support and personality existing in mental health.Conclusion;Students' perceived social support play a regulative role between personality and mental health.

Objective;To revise the third time the norm of Combined Raven's Test(CRT-C2) applied for 10 years by standardized sampling.Methods;According to the population distribution of national survey in 2001,sampling was chosen from 17 provinces of 6 administration districts.The range of each age group was one year(male;female 1;1).It was designed to have 240 children in each age group,from 7 to 16 years old in city and 7-14 years old in rural areas,with original CRT text book and instruction.Results;The averages of raw score among age groups had an obviously increase along with the age.The differences of same age group between city and countryside were showed significance.However,no difference of gender among all age groups was founded.The Cronbach's coefficient,reliability of re-test and split-half of rural children were 0.94,0.88 and 0.91 respectively.The correlation coefficients of test scores with the performances of Chinese and mathematics subject were 0.35 and 0.40.Conclusion;Two age norms of city(CRT-CC3)and countryside(CRT-RC3)were established based on new standardized sampling.

Objective;To investigate the situation of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder's quality of life,and explored the related factors.Methods;60 OCD patients were tested with the general question lists,Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale(YBOCS),Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression(HAMD).Health related quality of life was measured by the Self-administered global QOL scale(SF-36).Results;There were significant differences between OCD patients and the norm of China general population in all SF-36 subscales except those related to physical health and pain(P

Objective:To explore whether there is a significant difference between the affective priming effect of pictures and words.Methods:The study used pictures taken from the international picture system and Chinese words as the priming-stimuli, and took college students as subjects, then primed positive, negative and neutral emotions, and asked subjects to accomplish stroop task and self-rating emotion task.The study took the design between 2(types of material) ?3(types of emotion).Results:①In the stroop task, there were significant differences between the reaction time and error rate of different emotions(F=36.216,P=0.000

Objective:To explore the roles of cognition and deception in the Guilty Knowledge Tests and its effectiveness on the judgement of the guilt and the informed innocent people.Methods:72 healthy undergraduates participated in the study and were randomly assigned to the experimental conditions.This research was composed of one laboratory experiment with the mork crime paradigm in GKT, and the widely measured electrodermal responses(EDRs) as the physiological index.Three response modes were designed in the experiment in order to test the existence of cognition and deception components.Results:Significant differences of judgement scores were observed in different reponse modes and different roles.Conclusion:Deception plays a more important role than cognition in GKT.However, GKT can not efficiently discriminate the guilty and informed innocent people and needs futher exploration.