回避型依恋者对消极情绪信息防御性加工特征摘要.pdfVIP

Advances in Psychology 心理学进展, 2017, 7(2), 199-206 Published Online February 2017 in Hans. /journal/ap /10.12677/ap.2017.72026 The Defensive Characteristics of Negative Emotional Information Processing of Avoidant Attachment * Qingting Tang, Jia Hu, Xu Chen , Ying Liu Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing th th th Received: Feb. 5 , 2017; accepted: Feb. 20 , 2017; published: Feb. 24 , 2017 Abstract Accurate processing of emotional information plays an important role in the management of in- terpersonal relationship and social function. Insecure attachment style effects the process of threaten related information. Individuals with avoidant pattern of attachment are assumed to re- press threaten-related signals. They are assumed to have one internal working model associated with anxiety, operating out of awareness at early, automatic stages of information processing, and another positive model operating at later, cognitively controlled stages of processing. This paper discussed the defensive characteristics of negative emotion processing of avoidant attachment. Automatic vigilance followed by effortful inhibition as a cognitive defense for avoidant attachment to processing the threaten-related signals, which is expressed in a specific dual-process model of avoidant defenses included vigilance in early automatic process and avoidance in later controlled process. The evidences from various behavioral experimental paradigms included emoticon mi- micry task, morph task, perceptual threshold task, as well as emotional cueing task provided support for th