Social exclusion in teams
Publisher
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Place of Publication
Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Abstract
Social exclusion can be defined as the inability to participate effectively in economic, social, political, and cultural life; alienation; and distance from the mainstream society (Duffy, 1995, as cited by Tong, Lai, Zeng, & Xu, 2011). Several studies examining the relationship between social isolation and depression have found significant results linking concepts of social isolation to depression (Abeln et al., 2015; Tong et al., 2011; Wesselmann, Nairne, & Williams, 2011). A previous study was conducted studying the link between depression and social isolation by participants completing a current mood scale and Beck Depression Inventory-Second Edition (BDI-II; Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996) to measure depression levels and a isolation stimulus used is called “Cyberball” (Hartgerink, Beest, Wicherts, & Williams, 2015), a ball-passing simulation computer game. Eighty-Three participants completed the previous study and no significant differences were found between depressed versus not depressed and isolated and non-isolated subjects. Due to the null effects of the previous study, the purpose of the proposed study is to replicate the methods of the previous study and further examine the effects of game play isolation on depression. In addition, the objective of the proposed study is to quantify any social isolation behaviors that were not reflected in the self report measures of the previous study through biographical measures of galvanic skin response (GSR) and electromyography (EMG).
Date
10-22-2016
Subject
Industrial and organizational psychology
Document Type
posters
Language
English
Rights
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Social exclusion in teams
Social exclusion can be defined as the inability to participate effectively in economic, social, political, and cultural life; alienation; and distance from the mainstream society (Duffy, 1995, as cited by Tong, Lai, Zeng, & Xu, 2011). Several studies examining the relationship between social isolation and depression have found significant results linking concepts of social isolation to depression (Abeln et al., 2015; Tong et al., 2011; Wesselmann, Nairne, & Williams, 2011). A previous study was conducted studying the link between depression and social isolation by participants completing a current mood scale and Beck Depression Inventory-Second Edition (BDI-II; Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996) to measure depression levels and a isolation stimulus used is called “Cyberball” (Hartgerink, Beest, Wicherts, & Williams, 2015), a ball-passing simulation computer game. Eighty-Three participants completed the previous study and no significant differences were found between depressed versus not depressed and isolated and non-isolated subjects. Due to the null effects of the previous study, the purpose of the proposed study is to replicate the methods of the previous study and further examine the effects of game play isolation on depression. In addition, the objective of the proposed study is to quantify any social isolation behaviors that were not reflected in the self report measures of the previous study through biographical measures of galvanic skin response (GSR) and electromyography (EMG).
Department
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Dept. of Psychology