The Influence Of State Anxiety,Emotional Information And Aromatherapy On The Function Of Attention Network

The state anxiety of athletes will affect their attention function,and this kind of influence can spread to athletes’ performance and even the whole sports career.In the past,the researches on anxiety and the function of attention network are mostly from the cognitive perspective,less considering that attention will involve emotion at the same time.Different emotional information also affects attention,and for athletes’ short-term state anxiety,the current intervention methods are relatively limited.Based on the "double-competition" model of emotion,this study explored the influence of different facial emotion information on the function of attention network in the context of high and low state anxiety.At the same time,the inhaled aromatherapy was used as an intervention method to explore its influence on the emotional attention network function in different state anxiety situations.Methods: in Study 1,ordinary college students were selected as subjects,and a single factor between-group design(state anxiety groups: high,low)was used to explore the effect of state anxiety on the function of attention network.In Study 2,the method of 2(state anxiety groups: high,low)× 2(face emotions: pleasure,fear)was used to explore the relationship between attention network function and different face emotion information under different state anxiety.In Study 3,the method of 2(groups of people: athletes,college students)× 2(state anxiety groups: high,low)× 2(intervention groups: intervention,non intervention)× 2(face emotion: pleasure,fear)was adopted to explore the similarities and differences between the attention network function and different face emotion information of athletes and ordinary college students in different state anxiety situations,and the effect of inhaled aromatherapy intervention on these two groups of people.Results: study 1 showed that without emotional information,high state anxiety would reduce the alertness and directional network function,but not the executive control network function.Study 2 shows that with emotional information,high state anxiety reduces the vigilance,orientation and executive control function of attention,and the vigilance,orientation and executive control function of fear face is better in the same situation;while in the situation of low state anxiety,the vigilance and orientation function of fear face is better,and the executive control function of happy face is better.Study 3 shows that without intervention,the executive control network function of positive and negative emotions of athletes is better than that of ordinary college students,but there is no significant difference between the vigilance network and the directional network function;no matter in what state anxiety situation,the vigilance and directional function of the fear face is better.In the high state anxiety situation,the executive control function of the fear face is better,while in the low anxiety situation,the executive control function of happy face is better.The direction of ordinary college students and athletes is the same.In the state of high anxiety,the intervention of inhalation aromatherapy can effectively enhance the alert function and happy faceorientation function of college students and athletes as well as the executive control function of college students,but in the state of low anxiety,such intervention has no effect.Conclusion:(1)In the absence of affective information,high state anxiety can interfere with the attention network driven by stimulus,but not target-oriented attention network.(2)Attention network function is affected by face emotion.Regardless of the level of state anxiety,the vigilance network and directional network function of fear face are better.However,in the executive control network,the function of fear face is better under high state anxiety,and that of happy face is better under low state anxiety.(3)Inhalation aromatherapy can improve the alert function and the happy faceorientation network function of college students and athletes in the state of high anxiety,while also improving the executive control function of college students in the state of high anxiety.