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Interpersonal Self-Support and Attentional Disengagement from Emotional Faces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2015

Ling - Xiang Xia ,
Xu - Liang Shi ,
Ran - Ran Zhang  and
Steven D. Hollon
Ling - Xiang Xia*
Affiliation:
Southwest University (China)
Xu - Liang Shi
Affiliation:
Southwest University (China)
Ran - Ran Zhang
Affiliation:
Southwest University (China)
Steven D. Hollon
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University (USA)
*
*Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Ling-Xiang Xia. Southwest University. Faculty of Psychological Science.1 Tiansheng Road. 400715. Chongqing (China). Phone: +86–2368367841. Fax: +86–2368253629. E-mail: xialx@swu.edu.cn
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Abstract

Prior studies have shown that interpersonal self-support is related to emotional symptoms. The present study explored the relationship between interpersonal self-support and attentional disengagement from emotional faces. A spatial cueing task was administrated to 21 high and 24 low interpersonal self-support Chinese undergraduate students to assess difficulty in shifting away from emotional faces. The Sidak corrected multiple pairwise tests revealed that the low interpersonal self-support group had greater response latencies on negative faces than neutral faces or positive faces in the invalid cues condition, F(2, 41) = 5.68, p < .01, η2 = .22. In addition, in the invalid cues condition, the low interpersonal self-support group responded more slowly than the high interpersonal self-support group to negative faces, F(1, 42) = 7.63, p < .01, η2 = .15, the 95% confidence interval for difference of reaction time from 16.30 to 104.70. The results support our hypotheses that low interpersonal self-support is related to difficulty disengaging from negative emotional information and suggest that interpersonal self-support may refer to emotional dispositions, especially negative emotional dispositions.

Keywords

interpersonal self-supportattentional disengagementattentional biasemotional faces
Type
Research Article
Information
The Spanish Journal of Psychology , Volume 17 , 2014 , E106
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Copyright © Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid 2014 

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