Experimental Study Of Attentional Bias To Emotional Information In Social Anxiety Individuals

Social anxiety problems in high school students is becoming more and more serious in recent years.These problems influenced the study and interpersonal communication of high school students in their lives.The purpose of this study attempts to test that whether there exists the attentional bias between high or low social anxious individuals and emotional information(Emotional words and Facial expression).Research one used the emotional Stroop paradigm;Research two used the cue-target paradigm.The experimental results showed that high social anxiety group was interfered by negative emotional words;low social anxiety group was not Interfered by negative emotional words and positive emotion words.When the stimuli were presented for 200 ms in the experiment, high social anxiety degree of the individuals showed the attentional alert to the negative emotional facial expression pictures in the valid condition.When the stimuli were presented for 500 ms in the experiment,the high social anxiety degree of the individuals showed the attentional avoid to the negative emotional facial expression pictures in the valid condition.In addition,both of high and low social anxiety degree of the individuals had the difficulty to relieve positive facial expression pictures in the invalid cue condition from the different causes.The middle school stage is an important stage in the formation and development of social anxiety.On one hand,this research have important significance to help the students to cooperate with others and to stay physically and mentally healthy.On the other hand,this research will help students treat social anxiety correctly and integrate into society as well as possible.