Security Research Based On The Theory Of Scarcity

Security is the most important factor in determining mental health. If a person is lack of security, his mental growth will be stagnant. But secure person have freedom to aspire for greater things in life. The growth experience, social culture, the natural environment will cause everyone different level of security.The scarcity theory expounds the individual in the face of the lack of resources will form a scarcity mentality. Rare resources can always capture individual attention, occupy cognitive resources, weaken the ability of individuals in other tasks. Therefore, in the case of threatening sense of security, when the individual needs to think about their own safety needs, Individual are motivated by the goal of meeting different degrees of security need and keep the focus on different information, take on different cognition resources. Let individual make decision quite differently.Our study is designed with 3 experiments to investigate and analyze how security affects people’s decision-making process. The first research used dot-probe task to see how different levels of security affect subjects’ attentional bias on security-related words.Through this way to verify whether low-security individual is more concerned about the satisfying information, which will take on a lot of cognitive resources. The second one checked whether different level groups take on unequal cognitive resources by means of Raven’s test and space Stroop task. Which may affect people’s cognitive function and executive function. In study III, an decision experiment was conducted to analyze when different level groups take on unequal cognitive resources how it change people’s executive function, even the process of decision. The results are as follows:(1) When security need not be activated, both of high-security group and low-security group individuals have not shown attention bias on security-related words;When the security need to be activated,, both of high-security group and low-security group individuals have shown attention bias on security-related words. High-security group response to dot-probe paradigm faster than low-security group .(2) When security need not be activated, there is no significant different between high-security group and low-security group individuals on cognitive and executive function. When the security need to be activated, in the low-security group, participants’cognitive and executive function was significantly lower than the participants of high-security group. The correctness of the low-safety group is significantly lower than that of the high-security group in the Raven test and the space Stroop task. In the space Stroop task, the low-security group has more conflict than the high-security group.(3) When security need not be activated, there is no significant different between high-security group and low-security group individuals on executive function and decision-making process. When the security need to be activated, the level of security affects not only the individuals’ executive function, but also the individual’s decision-making process. The low-security group made conservative decisions significantly more than the high-security group, and the decision-making time was significantly longer.