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Oxytocin predicts positive affect gains in a role-play interaction

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العنوان: Oxytocin predicts positive affect gains in a role-play interaction
المؤلفون: Alexandru I. Berceanu, Claudiu Papasteri, Alexandra Sofonea, Romina Boldasu, Diana Nita, Cătălina Poalelungi, Robert Froemke, Ioana Carcea
المصدر: Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 15 (2024)
بيانات النشر: Frontiers Media S.A., 2024.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: LCC:Psychology
مصطلحات موضوعية: role-play, oxytocin, positive affect, prosocial attitudes, emotion regulation, Psychology, BF1-990
الوصف: IntroductionRole-play, a key creative process in theatre, is used in therapeutic interventions to improve social skills, emotion regulation, and memory. Although role-play is widely used as a psychotherapeutic technique, its mechanisms of action are not fully understood.MethodsOur study introduces a standardized controlled procedure for promoting role-play in the laboratory based on the portrayal of a fictional persona and examines its effects on anxiety, affect, prosocial attitudes, and salivary oxytocin dynamics in 38 participants.ResultsIn our experiment, role-play significantly increased positive affect and prosocial attitudes and decreased anxiety compared to a control condition. Basal salivary oxytocin levels predicted higher gains in positive affect following role-play, suggesting a specific moderating effect of oxytocin. The fictional persona used in the procedure was rated as very happy by subjects, creating a positive social context for the role-play social interaction.DiscussionsWe propose that the observed moderation effect of oxytocin in our study is specific to the role-play condition due to the capacity of role-play to generate an affective regulatory context based on congruency toward the emotional state of the fictional persona. Our findings indicate that basal oxytocin levels could predict specific outcomes of role-play in therapeutical setting. We discuss several psychological and biological mechanisms that could account for the observed effects of role-play and how oxytocin could act as a substrate for them.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1664-1078
Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1258254/full; https://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1258254
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/1d79387c23964b4b97561f1b762f743a
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.1d79387c23964b4b97561f1b762f743a
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:16641078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1258254