Attentional Biases toward Face-Related Stimuli among Athletes after State Thwarting Need for Relatedness

Abstract

The present study aimed to examine attentional biases’ components and processes toward the interpersonal evaluation information among athletes after state thwarting need for relatedness. 51 athletes completed a visual dot-probe task while their eye-movements were tracking. Results indicated athletes showed different attentional bias pattern. Acceptance information is early orientation (directional bias); early acceleration detection; sustained to late attention maintenance (difficulty in disengaging). Rejection information is early orientation (directional bias); early accelerated detection; continuous attention to maintenance (attention avoidance); late attention to maintenance (difficulty in disengaging). That is to say, they had motivation to seek acceptance toward the accepted interpersonal evaluation information and to avoid rejection information toward the rejected one. Therefore, it is suggested that the coaches provide more interpersonal communicating opportunities, so as to help them to restore their demands toward interpersonal communication, and provide the customized attentional bias trainings to improve their coping response after state thwarted need for relatedness.

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“…Effective communication as a process of human interaction can increase collaboration, potentially increase attention, and can go deeper into individuals (Abrantes et al, 2021). Effective interpersonal communication is one that avoids the rejection of information so it would be better if trainers provide more opportunities for interpersonal communication to increase responsiveness (Xu et al, 2022). This is in line with the statement that synergy and communication can bring out the full spectrum of combinations of verbal and non-verbal cues to be contributing factors in creating a collaborative environment that will develop in the future (Dzardanova et al, 2022).…”