Dubey Indu, Ropar Danielle, Hamilton Antonia
1School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Harry Pitt Building, Earley Gate, Reading, RG6 6AL UK.
2School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD UK.
Motiv Emot. 2018;42(2):190-199. doi: 10.1007/s11031-017-9647-1. Epub 2017 Nov 11.
Social motivation is a subjective state which is rather difficult to quantify. It has sometimes been conceptualised as "behavioural effort" to seek social contact. Two paradigms: approach-avoidance (AA) and choose a movie (CAM), based on the same conceptualisation, have been used to measure social motivation in people with and without autism. However, in absence of a direct comparison, it is hard to know which of these paradigms has higher sensitivity in estimating preference for social over non-social stimuli. Here we compare these two tasks for their utility in (1) evaluating social seeking in typical people and (2) identifying the influence of autistic traits on social motivation. Our results suggest that CAM reveals a clear preference for social stimuli over non-social in typical adults but AA fails to do so. Also, social seeking measured with CAM but not AA has a negative relationship between autistic traits.
社会动机是一种相当难以量化的主观状态。它有时被概念化为寻求社会接触的“行为努力”。基于相同的概念化，两种范式：趋近-回避（AA）和选择电影（CAM），已被用于测量有和没有自闭症的人的社会动机。然而，在没有直接比较的情况下，很难知道这些范式中的哪一种在估计对社会刺激而非非社会刺激的偏好方面具有更高的敏感性。在这里，我们比较这两个任务在（1）评估典型人群中的社会寻求以及（2）识别自闭症特征对社会动机的影响方面的效用。我们的结果表明，CAM揭示了典型成年人对社会刺激比对非社会刺激有明显的偏好，但AA未能做到这一点。此外，用CAM而非AA测量的社会寻求与自闭症特征之间存在负相关。
