Shevchenko Yury, Bröder Arndt
School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Germany.
Heliyon. 2019 Apr 17;5(4):e01438. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01438. eCollection 2019 Apr.
The reliability of online mood manipulations is potentially undermined by participants' noncompliance behavior, e.g., skipping a part of the experiment or switching between web pages during the mood manipulation. The goal of the current research is to investigate (1) whether and how mood manipulations are threatened by noncompliance behavior, (2) whether it is confounded with the induced mood state as predicted by Affect Regulation Theory, and (3) what measures can be taken to control for the noncompliance. In two online-experiments, noncompliance behavior was assessed during the mood manipulation with movie clips by tracking interruptions of watching and page switches. The results support the affect regulation hypothesis demonstrating that people confronted with negative emotional content interrupted watching the video and switched between pages more often than people with positive content. Methodologically, this causes a threat to the internal validity of internet-based mood manipulation studies. To decrease the risk of noncompliance, the current study recommends to block skipping a part of the mood manipulation, detect page focus events and measure the time people stay on a page.
参与者的不遵守行为可能会削弱在线情绪操纵的可靠性，例如跳过实验的一部分或在情绪操纵过程中在网页之间切换。当前研究的目的是调查：（1）情绪操纵是否以及如何受到不遵守行为的威胁；（2）它是否如情感调节理论所预测的那样与诱发的情绪状态混淆；（3）可以采取哪些措施来控制不遵守行为。在两项在线实验中，通过跟踪观看中断和页面切换，在使用电影片段进行情绪操纵期间评估不遵守行为。结果支持了情感调节假设，表明面对负面情绪内容的人比面对正面内容的人更频繁地中断观看视频并在页面之间切换。从方法学上讲，这对基于互联网的情绪操纵研究的内部效度构成了威胁。为了降低不遵守行为的风险，当前研究建议阻止跳过情绪操纵的一部分，检测页面焦点事件并测量人们在页面上停留的时间。
