Socioemotional selectivity theory postulates that a person with an expansive future time perspective adopts positive and negative information equally to prepare for future events, whereas a person with a limited future time perspective favors selecting positive over negative information, which suggests an information processing bias. Therefore, the present study was conducted to examine both whether future mental imagery can affect future time perspectives and whether attentional biases can be observed under manipulated future time perspective conditions. To control for depressive tendencies, which was assumed to affect the examination of attentional bias, 24 college students with high depressive tendencies [6 men, 18 women; mean age 18.46 years, standard deviation (SD) = 0.66] and 22 with low depressive tendencies (7 men, 15 women; mean age = 18.73 years, SD = 1.12) were recruited as participants and instructed to generate mental imagery about the long-term (short-term) future in order to achieve a limited (expansive) future time perspective condition. Attentional bias was then examined using an exogenous cueing task with long cue presentations. The effectiveness of the manipulation method used in this study was confirmed, and the results of the effects on attentional biases were analyzed. A significant difference in the difficulty of attentional disengagement from negative stimuli was observed among the participants with high depressive tendencies under the expansive future time perspective condition.

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使用心理意象来操纵年轻人的未来时间观点：与抑郁倾向相关的注意偏见的影响

社会情感选择性理论假设，具有广阔未来时间观点的人平等地采用正信息和负信息来为未来事件做准备，而具有有限未来时间观点的人则倾向于选择正信息而不是负信息，这表明信息处理存在偏见。因此，进行本研究以检查未来的心理意象是否会影响未来的时间观点以及在操纵的未来时间观点条件下是否可以观察到注意偏见。为了控制被认为会影响注意偏见检查的抑郁倾向，有24位抑郁倾向高的大学生[男6例，女18例；平均年龄18.46岁，标准差（SD）= 0.66]和22位抑郁倾向低的男性（7名男性，15名女性；平均年龄= 18.73岁，SD  = 1.12）被招募为参与者，并被要求按顺序生成关于长期（短期）未来的心理意象以实现有限的（扩展的）未来时间透视条件。然后使用带有长提示提示的外源提示任务检查注意偏见。证实了本研究中使用的操纵方法的有效性，并分析了对注意偏见的影响结果。在广阔的未来时间视角条件下，在具有高抑郁倾向的参与者中，观察到从负刺激中脱离注意力的难度存在显着差异。