Instituto de Neurosciencias de Castilla y León (INCYL), University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
Department of Psychology, University of Cordoba, Córdoba, Spain.
Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback. 2022 Sep;47(3):231-237. doi: 10.1007/s10484-022-09551-5. Epub 2022 Jun 13.
The emotional reactions to social exclusion can be associated with physiological responses that could allow researchers to estimate the valence and intensity of the ongoing affective state. In this work, respiratory activity was analysed to verify whether breathing rate variations can be considered as predictive factors of subsequent positive and negative affect after inclusion and exclusion in young women. A standard Cyberball task was implemented and manipulated information was provided to the participants to create both conditions. The participants were socially excluded by limiting their participation to 6% of the total number of passes among three teammates and providing negative feedback about them. The results suggest that breathing rate can be a good option to infer subjective feelings during social interactions and a promising feature to incorporate into modern emotion monitoring systems as an alternative to other physiological measures. Furthermore, the interaction between metaemotion and physiology was studied by recording breathing rate while completing the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, evidencing a breathing rate increase during the emotion self-assessment only after exclusion.
对社会排斥的情绪反应可能与生理反应有关，这可以让研究人员估计正在进行的情感状态的效价和强度。在这项工作中，分析了呼吸活动，以验证在年轻人中被包括和排除后，呼吸频率的变化是否可以被视为随后积极和消极影响的预测因素。实施了一项标准的 Cyberball 任务，并向参与者提供了操纵信息，以创建这两种情况。通过将参与者的参与次数限制在三个队友之间总传球次数的 6%，并对他们提供负面反馈，参与者被社会排斥。结果表明，呼吸率可以作为一种推断社交互动过程中主观感受的好方法，并且是一种很有前途的特征，可以作为其他生理测量的替代方法，纳入现代情绪监测系统中。此外，通过在完成正性和负性情绪量表时记录呼吸率来研究元情绪和生理之间的相互作用，仅在排除后进行情绪自我评估时才会出现呼吸率增加。
