title: Interpersonal self-support and attentional disengagement from emotional faces.
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.
authors.affiliation: Southwest University (China).
authors.forename: Ling-Xiang
authors.initials: LX
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.affiliation: Southwest University (China).
authors.forename: Xu-Liang
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.affiliation: Southwest University (China).
authors.forename: Ran-Ran
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Vanderbilt University (USA).
authors.forename: Steven D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Hollon
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012649:Self Concept; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: attentional bias; attentional disengagement; emotional faces; interpersonal self-support