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.

Objecttive: The article analyzed how neurophysiological signals of adolescent's working memory(WM) change with increasing age.Methods: We recorded ERP from 52 healthy subjects aged from 14 to 22 years old in three groups.Our experiment consisted of 4 subexperiments and had two types of working memory tasks: spatial working memory and verbal working memory tasks,furthermore,every task included two levels of difficulty.Results: ①Reaction time was faster with increasing age,there was significant difference in accuracy of complicated tasks in different age groups with junior high school group significantly lower than others;②There was significant difference between junior high school group and college group in frontal P200 amplitude and its latency had no significant difference in the three groups;③Occipital P100 amplitude was descending when age was increasing and there had significant difference in latency between junior high school group and college group;④Occipital N160 amplitude was increasing with age and the latency was descending with age and there was significant difference between junior high school group and college group;⑤Average amplitude of parietal P300 was increasing with age and junior high school group's was significantly lower than the other two groups'.Conclusion: Teenager's working memory changes unevenly with age.

Resiliency is individual's capability to cover difficulties and make a good adaptation.This research reviews the researches on resiliency abroad.It summarizes the practical researches of resiliency from 3 aspects: ① The concept of resiliency;②The structure and intension of resiliency;③The measurement of resiliency.On this basis,it raises some questions in resiliency researches and puts forward the future direction.

Objective: To explore the relationship among self-esteem,identity and attribution tendencies of secondary vocational technical school students.Methods: Surveying 600 students with the questionnaires of self-esteem,identity and attribution tendencies when they were in grade 1,2,3.Results: Apparent correlations existed among self-esteem,identity and attribution tendencies,and significant differences existed in different genders,grades and urban and rural areas.Conclusion: Vocational schools should develop education of mental health and counseling,and teachers should students' should be concerned mental health about so as to guide them to get positive self-esteem,self-confidence,and self-identity,and choose the correct way of attribution.

Objective: To investigate socialdemological factors,mental stress and dysthymia and their relationship with Cesarean section in normal city primipara.Methods: In a prospective observational study,200 normal city primipara were followed up longitudinally from 36 pregnancy weeks to labor.Their socialdemological factors were recorded,the level of mental stress and dysthymia were measured in late pregnancy by the self-made pregnanced women's questionaires and CES-D,mode of delivery was also recorded.Results: The occurrence rate of dysthymia among normal city pregnanced women was 28%.Age,educational level,family's mensal income,attendance of maternity school,friends and relatives with unfavorable delivery,mental preparation for delivery,relationship with husband and uneasiness about newborns' health were related significantly to the occurrence rate of dysthymia(P

Objective: To explore the structure of coping styles in job-hunting of university students after first interview and study the relationship between coping styles and personality traits.Methods: 622 university graduates completed coping styles questionnaire and 238 of them completed QZPS-SF.Results: SPSS 10.0 was applied to analyze the structure of coping styles and the relationship between coping styles and personality traits.Conclusion: The study tends to support the bi-dimensional structure of coping styles and personality traits were the important determinants of two dimensions of coping styles.

Objective: To evaluate the impairment of semantic memory in Alzheimer's disease.Methods: 22 Alzheimer's disease patients were examined by means of a longitudinal study and compared with 22 normal elders.Two semantic tasks,lexical decision task and semantic knowledge task were used,to evaluate the integrity of the same concepts.Results: In each session,the MMSE scores of the Alzheimer's disease group were significantly worse(P

Objective: To explore the relationships among stress,burnout and depression.Methods: 270 college students were investigated with the Burnout Measure(Short version),Life Events Scale and Self-Rating Depression Scale.Results: The correlations between burnout,life events and depression were all significant statistically(P

Objective: The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between computer game addiction,a subtype of internet addiction,and parental Rearing styles.Methods: Using Computer Game Addiction Inventory(CGAI) and EMBU,we investigate a sample of 747 senior high school students in Beijing.According to whether participants' sum score of five dimensions of CGAI is larger than 1.5 SD,we divide them into two groups: tendency to addiction and non-tendency to addiction.Then we analyze the data with methods of MANOVA and Canonical Correlation.Results: There is significant difference in sex distributing between tendency to addiction and non-tendency to addiction.There is also significant difference in parental rearing styles between two groups.Under authoritarian rearing styles,children score higher on nearly every dimension of CGAI.Conclusion: Boys are more likely to get addicted to computer games than girls.Negative parental rearing styles associate closely with computer game addiction.

Recently,researches about impulsiveness are more and more active,especially in the fields of psychology,psychiatry,behavioral medicine and psychopharmacology.But there is no widely accepted definition and measurement methods.This review briefly described the concept of impulsiveness and different methods to measure impulsiveness.We also discussed the advantages and disadvantages of each measurement method.