情感性动机网络使用者对负性情绪线索的前注意偏向

采用修改后的分离式Stroop任务,通过两个实验考察了基于人际情感性动机的网络使用者在双线索竞争条件下的前注意加工特性。研究结果表明,相对于信息获取型被试,在中性线索与负性情绪线索匹配条件下,人际情感型被试对负性情绪线索表现出显著的前注意加工偏向,但在中性线索和情感满足线索匹配条件下,该类被试对情感满足线索未表现出前注意加工偏向。该研究为解释人际情感型动机者的病理性网络使用行为的情绪机制提供了实验证据。

A Study of Preattentional Bias toward Negative Emotional Cues in Internet Users with Social-Affective Motives

The study mainly examined the preattentional bias of the Internet users towards affective-satisfaction-related cues and negative emotional cues by a separated paradigm of the emotional Stroop under the two-cue competition condition.Altogether 19 Internet users with an information-acquiring motive and 23 users with social-affective motive participated in the current two experiments.The results indicated that the Internet users with social-affective motives showed a significant preattentional bias toward negative emotional cues in the early phase of attentional processing,while no comparable bias was found toward affective-satisfaction-related cues.The study provided experimental evidence for explanations concerning the emotional mechanism of problematic Internet use in Internet users with social-affective motives in real life.