Shi Hong
Department of English Language and Literature, School of Foreign Languages, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China.
Front Psychol. 2022 Sep 27;13:904132. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.904132. eCollection 2022.
Inhibition, associated with self-efficacy, enables people to control thought and action and inhibit disturbing stimulus and impulsion and has certain evolutionary significance. This study analyzed the neural correlates of inhibition modulated by self-efficacy. Self-efficacy was assessed by using the survey adapted from the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire. Fifty college students divided into low and high self-efficacy groups participated in the experiments. Their ability to conduct inhibitory control was studied through Go/No-Go tasks. During the tasks, we recorded students' brain activity, focusing on N2 and P3 components in the event-related potential (ERP). Larger No-Go N2 amplitudes for the high self-efficacy group were found compared with the low self-efficacy group. Conflict detection as represented by N2 was modulated by self-efficacy, whereas conflict inhibition as represented by P3 was not modulated by self-efficacy. The highly self-efficacious students were more capable of detecting conflicts but not necessarily more capable of inhibiting action given that conflict was detected. Taken together, these findings offer neurophysiological evidence of the important regulatory role of self-efficacy in inhibitory control ability development.
与自我效能感相关的抑制作用使人们能够控制思维和行动，抑制干扰性刺激和冲动，具有一定的进化意义。本研究分析了自我效能感调节的抑制作用的神经关联。自我效能感通过改编自《学习动机策略问卷》的调查进行评估。五十名大学生被分为低自我效能感组和高自我效能感组参与实验。通过Go/No-Go任务研究他们进行抑制控制的能力。在任务过程中，我们记录学生的大脑活动，重点关注事件相关电位（ERP）中的N2和P3成分。与低自我效能感组相比，高自我效能感组的No-Go N2波幅更大。以N2为代表的冲突检测受到自我效能感的调节，而以P3为代表的冲突抑制则不受自我效能感的调节。高自我效能感的学生更有能力检测冲突，但在检测到冲突的情况下，不一定更有能力抑制行动。综上所述，这些发现为自我效能感在抑制控制能力发展中的重要调节作用提供了神经生理学证据。
