Departamento de Ingeniería Biomédica, Vicerrectoría de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Monterrey, Av. Ignacio Morones Prieto 4500 Pte., San Pedro Garza García 66238, Mexico.
Departamento de Psicología Social y de las Organizaciones, Universidad Nacional de Estudios a Distancia, C. de Bravo Murillo 38, 28015 Madrid, Spain.
Sensors (Basel). 2022 Oct 17;22(20):7906. doi: 10.3390/s22207906.
Economic objectification is a form of dehumanization in which workers are treated as tools for enhancing productivity. It can lead to self-objectification in the workplace, which is when people perceive themselves as instruments for work. This can cause burnout, emotional drain, and a modification of self-perception that involves a loss of human attributes such as emotions and reasoning while focusing on others' perspectives for evaluating the self. Research on workers self-objectification has mainly analyzed the consequences of this process without exploring the brain activity that underlies the individual's experiences of self-objectification. Thus, this project explores the electroencephalographic (EEG) changes that occur in participants during an economic objectifying task that resembled a job in an online store. After the task, a self-objectification questionnaire was applied and its resulting index was used to label the participants as self-objectified or non-self-objectified. The changes over time in EEG event-related synchronization (ERS) and partial directed coherence (PDC) were calculated and compared between the self-objectification groups. The results show that the main differences between the groups in ERS and PDC occurred in the beta and gamma frequencies, but only the PDC results correlated with the self-objectification group. These results provide information for further understanding workers' self-objectification. These EEG changes could indicate that economic self-objectification is associated with changes in vigilance, boredom, and mind-wandering.
经济物化是一种使劳动者沦为提高生产力工具的去人性化形式。它可能导致工作场所的自我物化,即人们将自己视为工作的工具。这可能导致倦怠、情绪枯竭,并改变自我认知,使人们失去情感和推理等人类属性,而专注于他人的观点来评价自己。关于劳动者自我物化的研究主要分析了这一过程的后果,而没有探讨个体经历自我物化的大脑活动。因此,本项目探讨了参与者在类似于在线商店工作的经济物化任务中脑电图(EEG)的变化。任务完成后,应用自我物化问卷,并根据其指标将参与者标记为自我物化或非自我物化。计算并比较了自我物化组之间 EEG 事件相关同步(ERS)和部分定向相干(PDC)随时间的变化。结果表明,组间 ERS 和 PDC 的主要差异出现在β和γ频段,但只有 PDC 结果与自我物化组相关。这些结果为进一步了解劳动者自我物化提供了信息。这些 EEG 变化可能表明经济自我物化与警觉性、无聊和心不在焉的变化有关。