Not All Levels of Social Re-Inclusion Allow for Recovery from Negative Outcomes of Social Exclusion: The Moderating Role of Self-Esteem.

Beibei Kuang, Sik Hung Ng, Shenli Peng, Ping Hu, Yanqiu Wei

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Beibei KuangCollege of International Relations, National University of Defense Technology, Nanjing 210039, China.

Sik Hung NgDepartment of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China.

Shenli PengDepartment of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China.

Ping HuDepartment of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China.

Yanqiu WeiDepartment of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China.

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Abstract

Previous studies on social exclusion have focused on its adverse effects, rarely exploring how social re-inclusion can aid recovery from exclusion-induced distress. The level of social re-inclusion that can help individuals recover from social exclusion, and whether the recovery effect is influenced by individual characteristics are unclear. The present experimental study extends the Cyberball paradigm, adding a re-inclusion stage to explore the recovery effects of four levels of social re-inclusion on affect; furthermore, it tests the moderating role of self-esteem in the recovery effect. A total of 154 Chinese college students participated in the experiment. Results showed that (1) recovery was effective when the level of re-inclusion was equal to (replica re-inclusion) or greater than (moderate and high over-re-inclusions) the pre-exclusion level of inclusion, but ineffective when it was below this level (token re-inclusion); (2) the re-inclusion level positively predicted recovery, and this was moderated by self-esteem-the prediction was effective for participants with middle and high self-esteem, but not for participants with low self-esteem. These results are discussed from a group process and self-psychology perspective.

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recovery effectself-esteemsocial exclusionsocial re-inclusion level

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PMID38392441

DOI10.3390/bs14020088

PMCPMC10886270

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