Psychological Development and Education ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (2): 185-195.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2025.02.04

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Sensitivity and Attention Avoidance of Left Behind Adolescents to Negative Evaluation of Others

YANG Ling1, LI Na1, ZHANG Yang1, SHI Linping1, ZHANG Mingfei1, WU Jiangkun2   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Behavioral and Mental Health of Gansu Province, Institute of Substance Addiction and Rehabilitation, School of Psychology, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070;
    2. Gollege of Teacher Education, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070
  • Published:2025-03-17

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Abstract: This study explored the sensitivity and attention bias of left behind adolescents to others’ evaluation. Experiment 1 used the social incentive delay task to investigate the sensitivity of left behind adolescents to the evaluation of others. The results showed that the reaction time of left behind adolescents under the negative evaluation cues of others was significantly shorter than that under the positive evaluation cues of others, and the accuracy rate under the negative evaluation cues of others was significantly higher than that under the positive evaluation cues of others, The reaction time of non left behind adolescents under other people’s positive evaluation cues is significantly shorter than that under other people’s negative evaluation cues. Experiment 2 used the dot-probe task to investigate the attention bias of left behind adolescents towards the evaluation of others. The results showed that the reaction time of left behind adolescents to negative evaluation words was significantly longer under consistent conditions than under inconsistent conditions, and the attention bias index and attention detachment difficulty index of negative evaluation words were significantly less than 0, There is no significant difference in the reaction time of non left behind adolescents to positive and negative evaluation words under consistent and inconsistent conditions. The above results show that compared with the positive evaluation of others, the left behind adolescents are more sensitive to the negative evaluation of others, and show attention avoidance and attention detachment facilitation; Compared with the negative evaluation of others, non left behind adolescents are more sensitive to the positive evaluation of others, and do not show attention bias.

Key words: left behind adolescents, others evaluation, sensitivity, attention bias

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  • B844
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