Psychological Development and Education ›› 2012, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (5): 471-477.

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Function of Affective Priming and Attention Restoration in Environment Adolescents Attaching to

CHI Li-ping1, SU Qian2   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology, China Women's University, Beijing 100101;
    2. Guangming Primary School, Beijing 100061
  • Online:2012-09-15 Published:2012-09-15

Abstract: In the field of environmental psychology,some researches focused on the environments where people can recover from stress and mental fatigue.Kaplan and Ulrich developed theories to describe and explain the mechanism of affective priming and attention restoration in those environments.An interesting issue is whether the restoration of affect and attention in some environments are different,when people become to attach to those environments? The present study would examine the impact of place attachment on affective priming and attention restoration.Ninety-six seventh grade students were divided into two groups based on their scores on the Place Attachment Scale.One group named high place attachment group scored higher,and the other named low place attachment group scored lower.The study consisted of two experiments.In the experiment 1,whether environment participants attaching to would elicit rapid positive affection responses was examined.An affective priming paradigm with pictures of environmental scenes and facial expressions as primes and targets,respectively,was employed.In the experiment 2,pretest-posttest design in attention task was used to investigate the impact of place attachment on restore of participants' attention.The results of experiment 1 showed that: (1) after viewing natural scene pictures,participants from low attachment group responded to disgusted faces significantly faster than those from high attachment group and the other two control groups who were assigned to view geometric pictures; (2) there was no difference in response time to happy faces for the participants assigned to view natural scene pictures or geometric pictures.In the experiment 2,the results revealed that,(1) there were no differences on the accuracy and reaction times of pretest between two experiment groups and two control groups; (2) in the posttest of experiment group,participants who high attaching to the natural environment reacted to the target number faster than those who low attaching to the environment.

Key words: place attachment, restoration, affective priming, attention, adolescent

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  • B844.2
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