| According to Spielberger anxiety can be classified as trait anxiety and stat anxiety. Trait anxiety is considered as a kind of personality trait and the stable individual difference from the perspective of anxiety disposition. State anxiety is considered as temporary state of anxiety. The relationship between trait anxiety and attentional bias becomes the focus among large numbers of cognitive studies related with anxiety. Some researchers put forward interrelated theories after deep and systematic discussion about it.This study includes two experiments. In the first experiment, measure of attentional bias is action time to stimulus. In the second experiment, the eye fixations were monitored. Measures included the time of finding and identifying The State-Trait Anxiety scale (STAI-T) by Spielberger will be applied in these two experiments. There are 60 participants,in which 30 for High/Low Trait Anxiety group respectively. The qualified participants will take part in the visual search task. Displays of four schematic faces (angry, sad, happy, or neutral) were presented in the first experiment. Displays of three schematic faces (angry, happy, or neutral) were presented in the second experiment. Participants decided whether the faces were all the same or whether one was different.The result indicated that: A discrepant angry face in a context of six neutral faces was detected faster than other faces to the High Trait Anxiety individuals, reflecting a kind of threat stimulus attention bias: whereas,there is no differences among the Low Trait Anxiety to these displays,without any attention bias. Threat stimulus attention bias of the High Trait Anxiety individuals account for not only they looking at earlier but also their speeded detection time. |
