Emotion Regulation Following Social Exclusion: Psychological and Behavioral Strategies

Riva, Paolo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-33033-4_10

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“…Moreover, adding to the emerging research investigating interventions that resist negative thought processes and facilitate recovery from social exclusion experiences (for a review, see Riva, 2016), we demonstrate that distraction can counteract reliance on affective processing. Most socially excluded people ruminate after exclusionary events, which may intensify their reliance on emotionally persuasive messages.…”

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Speaking to the heart: Social exclusion and reliance on feelings versus reasons in persuasion

Sinha

2017

J Consum Psychol

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The authors of this study identify an alternative frame of communication for persuading people who feel socially excluded to behave in ways that benefit individual and social wellbeing, regardless of future connection possibilities. The authors suggest that socially excluded (included) consumers tend to rely on affect (cognition) in processing information, and to consequently prefer persuasive messages based on feelings (reasons). The effect occurs because people tend to ruminate about exclusionary events, which depletes self‐regulatory resources. Thus, distraction that interferes with rumination can mitigate the social exclusion effect on affective processing. The authors present findings from five studies across various paradigms promoting personal and social wellbeing (i.e., donating blood, recycling, and consuming healthful foods) and discuss the theoretical and policy implications.

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Section: Theoretical Contributionsmentioning

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Speaking to the heart: Social exclusion and reliance on feelings versus reasons in persuasion

Sinha

2017

J Consum Psychol

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“…Several plausible mechanisms might account for the effects that were found. A first explanation would consider violent media playing following social exclusion to be a (dysfunctional) emotional regulation strategy (Riva, ). In this regard, a possible strategy for terminating undesirable affective states caused by exclusionary events is to engage in activity unrelated with the sources of social exclusion (Riva, ).…”

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“…A first explanation would consider violent media playing following social exclusion to be a (dysfunctional) emotional regulation strategy (Riva, ). In this regard, a possible strategy for terminating undesirable affective states caused by exclusionary events is to engage in activity unrelated with the sources of social exclusion (Riva, ). However, in the long run, teenagers who choose violent media to deal with exclusionary experiences might end up more socially isolated than before considering their higher antisocial tendencies.…”

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“…Thus, excluded people might be more prone to look for violent game playing and display higher aggressive inclinations when they have the chance to exercise aggression through violent video game playing. Secondly, excluded teenager might try to deal with the painful feelings caused by exclusion by becoming more attracted to violent video games (Riva, ). Thus, violent video game playing might become a possible strategy to cope with the negative emotions caused by the exclusionary experience in the eyes of teenagers.…”

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The lone gamer: Social exclusion predicts violent video game preferences and fuels aggressive inclinations in adolescent players

Gabbiadini

Riva

2017

Aggressive Behavior

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Violent video game playing has been linked to a wide range of negative outcomes, especially in adolescents. In the present research, we focused on a potential determinant of adolescents' willingness to play violent video games: social exclusion. We also tested whether exclusion can predict increased aggressiveness following violent video game playing. In two experiments, we predicted that exclusion could increase adolescents' preferences for violent video games and interact with violent game playing fostering adolescents' aggressive inclinations. In Study 1, 121 adolescents (aged 10-18 years) were randomly assigned to a manipulation of social exclusion. Then, they evaluated the violent content of nine different video games (violent, nonviolent, or prosocial) and reported their willingness to play each presented video game. The results showed that excluded participants expressed a greater willingness to play violent games than nonviolent or prosocial games. No such effect was found for included participants. In Study 2, both inclusionary status and video game contents were manipulated. After a manipulation of inclusionary status, 113 adolescents (aged 11-16 years) were randomly assigned to play either a violent or a nonviolent video game. Then, they were given an opportunity to express their aggressive inclinations toward the excluders. Results showed that excluded participants who played a violent game displayed the highest level of aggressive inclinations than participants who were assigned to the other experimental conditions. Overall, these findings suggest that exclusion increases preferences for violent games and that the combination of exclusion and violent game playing fuels aggressive inclinations.

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“…Only recently researchers have started to experimentally investigate the efficacy of these strategies (Riva, ; Timeo et al, ). Studies have been especially carried out in the adult population (for a review see Timeo et al, ); rarely does research focus on children and adolescents.…”

Section: Strategies To Help Children and Adolescents Coping With The mentioning

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Learning to cope with everyday instances of social exclusion: A review of emotional and cognitive strategies for children and adolescents

Timeo

Riva

Paladino

2019

J Appl Biobehavioral Res

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Over 20 years of research has shown that social exclusion is a pervasive and powerful form of social threat. Social exclusion causes a wide variety of negative outcomes including negative emotions and threats to fundamental human needs (i.e., self-esteem). Most importantly, experiencing exclusion during childhood or adolescence can provoke long-term negative effects such as depression and anxiety disorders.Despite the growing interest in this domain, only recent studies have started to examine possible coping strategies to contrast the negative effects of exclusion. In this article, we first review the empirical findings concerning the consequences of social exclusion in children and adolescent populations. Second, we focus on cognitive and socio-emotional strategies that children and adolescents can use to deal with exclusion when it has occurred. Implications and future directions are discussed.

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Emotion Regulation Following Social Exclusion: Psychological and Behavioral Strategies

Cited by 33 publications

References 80 publications

Speaking to the heart: Social exclusion and reliance on feelings versus reasons in persuasion

Speaking to the heart: Social exclusion and reliance on feelings versus reasons in persuasion

The lone gamer: Social exclusion predicts violent video game preferences and fuels aggressive inclinations in adolescent players

Learning to cope with everyday instances of social exclusion: A review of emotional and cognitive strategies for children and adolescents

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