Social exchange processes and their effects on physiological and affective measures in the healthy general population
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: The aim of our experimental paradigm is to test the conditions under which the provision of social support to a dyadic partner affects affective, self-evaluative, physiological, and relations
Sponsors
MSB Medical School Berlin
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: - proficiency in German language - joining the laboratory part of the experiment with another person (romantic partner or friend) with whom the subject has been close for at least six months
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - psychology students in their 5th or higher bachelor's semester or in the master's program or persons who have completed their psychology studies - body mass index (BMI) over 30 - pregnancy or breast feeding - heavy smoking (over 10 cigarettes/day) - substance or alcohol abuse - presence of cardiovascular diseases or a neurological, psychiatric or endocrine disorders - regular intake of hydrocortisol medication
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Positive and negative affect self-reported by participants, recorded with the 10-item PANAS self-report questionnaire, at the time directly before the manipulation and directly after the manipulation, both recorded in the laboratory | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Physiological indicators: - Saliva cortisol (25 minutes before manipulation, right after manipulation, 10min after manipulation, 30min after manipulation, 40min after manipulation) - heart rate and heart rate variability (shortly before the manipulation continuously until 10 minutes after the manipulation) - blood pressure (10 minutes after arrival at the laboratory, 25 minutes before manipulation, shortly before manipulation, right after manipulation, 10 minutes after manipulation) Self-reports: - stress/anxiety (Spielberger State Anxiety Inventory - STAI, shortly before manipulation, right after manipulation) - social closeness (Inclusion of Other in the Self (IOS) Scale, shortly before manipulation, right after manipulation) - state change (State change questionnaire, Løseth, et al. (2022), right after manipulation) - satisfaction of autonomy, relatedness, and competence through provision of support (Sheldon, et al. (2021), online-baseline, right after manipulation) - self-evaluation of support provision (helpful, recognizable, Gallagher, et al. (2015), right after manipulation) - motivation to help (Motivation to Help Scale, Weinstein & Ryan (2010), right after manipulation) - state compassion (State compassion, Batson (1987), right after manipulation) - stress perceived in the examination situation (retrospective rating of stress in each phase of the experiemnt, right after manipulation) - Perspective taking (Pahl & Bauer (2013), right after manipulation) - Self-esteem (B-RSES, Monteiro et al. (2022), online-baseline, right after manipulation) - Self-efficacy to provide effective emotional support (Rossetto et al. (2014), online-baseline, lab-baseline, right after manipulation) - helping behavior (question whether participant would like to swap roles with the partner, right after manipulation) Additional measures (no endpoints): - demographic data: age, gender, marital status, highest educational attainment, psychology student, employm | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactLisa Marie Warner
MSB Medical School Berlin
Outcome results
None listed