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The Effects Of Self-compassion On Attentional Bias In College Students

Posted on:2018-11-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330518965665Subject:Basic Psychology
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Self-compassion involves being touched by and open to one’s own suffering,not avoiding or disconnecting from it,generating the desire to alleviate one’s suffering and to heal oneself with kindness.Self-compassion also involves offering nonjudgmental understanding to one’s pain,inadequacies and failures,so that one’s experience is seen as part of the larger human experience.Self-compassion is an emotionally positive self attitude that should protect against the negative consequences of self-judgment,isolation,and rumination(such as depression).Self-compassion is a new concept in psychology.As the first step of cognitive processing,attention selects the subset of stimuli that can access the organisms’ limited resources to be more thoroughly represented.There are extensive evidences for an association between an attention bias towards emotionally negative stimuli and vulnerability to stress-related psychopathology.Attention biases such as faster attention orienting toward negative information was consistently replicated in high-anxious and depressive individuals.Several empirical experiments investigated attention bias for positive stimuli in healthy individuals.The current study used a Dot Probe task to investigate if individual differences in attention biases towards either happy or angry/sad face pictures stimuli were related to self-reported self-compassion.The study experimentally induced a self-compassionate mindset to examine its effects,compared the effects of state self-compassion,and examined differences in the effects of inducing self-compassion versus attention bias.The study used Self-compassion Scale,which selected 360 subjects from college students.High self-compassion group included 160 college students.Low self-compassion group included 200 college students.The research was divided into two experiments,which included study 1 and study 2.Experiment used 2(self-compassion high,low group)×3(face type positive,negative,neutral)mixed design.Study 1had two research aims;the one investigated the self-compassion level of college students and the other studied attention bias of high and low self-compassion level.On the basis of study 1,the study experimentally induced a self-compassionate mindset to examine its effects,compared the effects of state self-compassion,and examined differences in the effects of inducing self-compassion versus attention bias.Research results are as follows:(1)There were differences between male and female in the level of self-compassion of college students,the score of self-compassion,human common and mindfulness for male is higher than female;Freshmen had lower scores than junior and senior in self-kindness.High self-compassion group had significantly difference with low self-compassion group in the score of self-compassion,human common,self-kindness and mindfulness.(2)The reaction time of the detection stimulation on happy face picture was shorter than anger/sad face picture for the high self-compassion group.The reaction time of the detection stimulation on anger/sad face picture was shorter than happy face pictures for the low self-compassion group.(3)We were successful in induced self-compassion.The score of self-compassion,human common and mindfulness for low self-compassion group was improved.(4)After inducing self-compassion,the high self-compassion group had the same attention bias about happy face picture and anger/sad face pictures.The low self-compassion group had attention bias about happy face picture.Conclusion: High self-compassion individuals had attention bias about happy face picture;Low self-compassion individuals had attention bias about anger/sad face picture.After inducing self-compassion,the low self-compassion group improved self-compassion level and had attention bias about happy face pictures.
Keywords/Search Tags:college students, self-compassion, attention bias
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