| Executive function is a psychological process in which individuals consciously control their thoughts and behaviors.Studies have found that women show emotional bias and subtle cognitive changes in the physiological cycle,and their executive function may be affected by emotional induction.However,there are limited studies on the relative executive function of healthy women in different physiological cycles under emotional induction.As a special way to improve executive function,mindfulness is trained by monitoring attention at the moment of practice.There have been some studies on the influence of mindfulness on executive function at home and abroad,but the existing studies have failed to explain how mindfulness training affects executive function induced by negative emotions,and there are few studies on women.Therefore,this study takes the three sub-functions of executive function as the starting point to explore the relationship between female different physiological cycle phases and executive function sub-functions under negative emotions,and further improve the previous research on its single sub-function,and provide a theoretical basis for the relationship between physiological cycle and cognition under emotions.At the same time,the effectiveness of mindfulness intervention on the improvement of female executive function in physiological cycle induced by emotion was tested,so as to find a new research field for mindfulness training and provide a new method for the improvement of female executive function.The study first tested the valence and arousal of music-induced materials through preexperiments.Then Experiment 1 took 30 healthy female college students as the research object,used music materials to induce neutral and negative emotions in the follicular phase and luteal phase,and performed executive function sub-function tests(inhibition function,refresh function,and conversion function).In the second experiment,the participants in the first experiment were randomly divided into the mindfulness group and the control group(the results of the first experiment were used as the pre-test data of the second experiment).The mindfulness group conducted a 6-week mindfulness training,and the control group did not intervene.The post-test also induced emotions in the two phases of the physiological cycle and performed executive function sub-function tests.The following research conclusions are obtained:(1): The partial executive function(inhibition function,partial refresh function)induced by negative emotion in luteal phase women is lower than that induced by neutral emotion(inhibition function,partial refresh function),while negative emotion induction has no effect on the executive function of follicular phase women.(2): Mindfulness training can reduce women ’s sensitivity to negative music.(3): In both neutral and negative emotions,mindfulness training can effectively improve some executive functions(inhibition function and partial refresh function)of women in luteal phase and follicular phase,but has no significant effect on conversion function. |
