The adversity belief promotes attentional bias for positive emotion: evidence from ERP
摘要
Adversity often exerts a detrimental impact on mental health and well-being. Therefore, it is critical to explore the protective factors that mitigate the mental health consequences of adversity. The present study aims to investigate the characteristics of attentional bias and its relationship with adversity belief in college students. A total sample of 61 college students (50.82% males and 49.18% females, Mage = 22.23 years, SD = 3.02) was recruited from a university in Liaoning province, China. Participants completed a questionnaire assessing adversity belief, followed by a dot-probe task during which Event-related potential (ERP) components were recorded. Behavioral results indicated that college students with high adversity belief showed greater attentional bias toward positive emotional faces than those with low adversity belief. ERP analyses revealed no significant difference in N2pc component for negative emotional faces between college students with high and low adversity belief. However, for positive emotional faces, students with high adversity belief exhibited larger N2pc component than those with low adversity belief. The results of present study demonstrates that adversity belief significantly influence individual attentional bias patterns, with high adversity belief associated with greater attentional bias toward positive information.