Effect of negative emotional arousal on attention disengagement difficulties in college students with social anxiety
Objective:To explore the role of negative emotional arousal in attention disengagementdifficulties-in college students with social anxiety.Methods:Totally 35 college students with social anxiety[38≤Liebowitz So-cial Anxiety Scale(LSAS)total scores≤72,Beck Depression Inventory Ⅱ(BDI-Ⅱ)total scores＜14]and 35 college students without social anxiety(0≤LSAS total scores＜38,BDI-Ⅱ total scores＜14)were selected,and 2(groups:social anxiety group,non-social anxiety group)×3(stimulus types:high arousal angry face,low arousal angry face,neutral face)two factor mixed experimental design was used to investigate the reaction time and accura-cy of college students with social anxiety under different arousal conditions.Results:The reaction time in social anxiety group was longer under high arousal than that under low arousal and neutral conditions(Ps＜0.05).There was no statistically significant difference in the reaction time under high arousal,low arousal and neutral conditions in non-social anxiety group(Ps＞0.05).Conclusion:Compared with neutral and low arousal negative emotional stimulus,college students with social anxiety are more difficult to disengage attention to high arousal negative emo-tional stimulus,but this pattern do not exist in college students without social anxiety.
social anxietyattentional biasemotional arousalattentional shifting task
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