A Research On The Hot Executive Function Of The Junior High School Students Under Psychological Maltreatment

Psychological maltreatment is one of a kind of harmful interaction pattern which have the most hidden and far-reaching influence on the children,especially in the emotion,cognition and behaviors.Meanwhile,all the above are close related to the hot executive function.But human being has self-healing ability to some extent.Previous studies have revealed the cold executive function of the children who are under the psychological maltreatment.Now we want to find out whether the hot executive function of them may have the same damage.And in this case of psychological maltreatment on the children,how the resilience play a role,especially the ability of individuals to regulate emotions.Using the Iowa gambling task(IGT)to explore the emotional decision making(one of the most important part of the hot executive function)characteristics of the children under psychological maltreatment and normal children,and the children under psychological maltreatment with high and low resilience.Using the word-face Stroop task with subliminal emotion Stroop task to explore the emotion regulation(the other most important part of the hot executive function)of them.First,we chose junior middle school students,then we distinguished children under psychological maltreatment from the normal children by using the “Child Psychological Maltreatment Scale(CPMS)”.After that,we let the children under psychological maltreatment filled the “Resilience Scale for Chinese Adolescent(RSCA)”,then we measured and calculated the total score,and rank the score from high to low,the first 27% were selected as the subjects with high resilience,and the latter 27% were the low resilience subjects.Then we led them to perform the tasks,followed by The Iowa gambling task,word-face Stroop task and subliminal emotional Stroop task on the computer.Results:(1)In the IGT,children under psychological maltreatment chose more disadvantageous decks,while the high resilient children were on the contrary.(2)In the word-face Stroop task,there was a significant main effect on psychological maltreatment,and the correct rate of the psychological maltreatment group was lower than the normal group.The affective valence of faces,word-face affective valence interference and psychological maltreatment level had significant interaction effect,moreover,simple effects analysis showed that correct rate of psychological maltreatment group in the word-face valence inconsistent conditions for the sad faces was higher than happy faces.The affective valence of faces andresilience level had significant interaction effect,moreover,simple effects analysis showed that reaction time of high resilience children for the sad faces was shorter than happy faces.(3)In the subliminal emotion Stroop task,there was no significant effect between psychological maltreatment group and normal group in correct rate and reaction time.The affective valence of faces and resilience level had significant interaction effect,moreover,simple effects analysis showed that correct rate of high resilience group for the sad and happy faces was higher than normal faces.Conclusions:(1)The hot executive function of the students with psychological maltreatment damaged a lot.Their affective decision making of the damaged in a certain degree and they were more easier affected by their emotion in condition of emotional conflict.(2)The hot executive function of high resilient students with psychological maltreatment damaged less.Their affective decision making damaged less,they were less easier affected by their emotion in condition of emotional conflict and they could better regular their emotion.