Neuroticism and Attentional Biases for Threatening Stimulus

The role of the different dimensions of the personality in the cognitive processing includes some important research areas in the field of cognitive psychology. The present study aimed to investigate differences of attentional bias in individual with up and down neuroticism. For this purpose, 130 subjects (67 people with high neuroticism and 63 people with low neuroticism) were completed word-picture task and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. The main and interactive effect and Pearson correlation coefficient were used to investigate the relationship between neuroticism and Attentional bias. The results showed that people with high neuroticism compared to people with low neuroticism perform slower in experimental trials. In addition, the resulting correlation coefficient indicated a positive and meaningful relationship between neuroticism and Attentional bias, it seems that along with increased scores of people in neuroticism, more Attentional bias was showing by them. These findings indicated that the necessity of using treatment strategies tailored to the characteristics of personality was multiplied

The Mediating Role of Perceived Social Support in the Relationship between Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies and Corona Disease Anxiety

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between cognitive emotion regulation strategies and Corona disease anxiety mediated by social support. The research design was descriptive - correlational and the statistical population included all students studying at Shiraz University in the academic year 1399-1400, of which 293 were selected by convenience sampling. They responded to Alipour et al.'s Corona Disease Anxiety Scale, Zimet et al.'s Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale and the short form of Garnefski and Kraaij 's Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. The results showed that there was a significant negative correlation between adaptive strategies of cognitive emotion regulation with corona disease anxiety and a significant positive correlation between maladaptive strategies of cognitive emotion regulation and corona disease anxiety. Also, cognitive emotion regulation strategies had a significant relationship with corona anxiety both directly and indirectly through social support. The goodness-of-fit indices also indicated the good fit of the proposed model. These results, in addition to explaining the role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies in the occurrence of anxiety, emphasize the importance of paying attention to these strategies, especially strengthening adaptive strategies along with providing social support