The Psychological Costs Of Complying With Ostracism:The Impact Of Agreeableness And Helping Behavior On Ostracizer

Social exclusion is a ubiquitous social phenomenon.Complying with ostracism is one of the forms.It refers to an individual who,in an objective or psychologically vague situation,non-spontaneously produces judgments and behaviors with the requirements or attitudes of others.Indicates consistent exclusion behavior,which in turn leads to impaired psychological needs.Social exclusion includes exclusion of the ostracizer and the ostracized,but few studies have looked into the experiences of the ostracizer.Since the reality situation is mostly compliant exclusion,and the ostracizer is an indispensable part of the ostracism dynamic system,the current research aims to use the social exclusion self-determination theory as the foothold to explore the psychological impact of compliance exclusion on the ostracizer's cost.In addition,the excluded ones,as the other half of the ostracism system with characteristics that will affect the psychological cost of the ostracizer.Therefore,this study explores the psychological costs from personality(agreeableness)and behavior(helping behavior).The different effects produced.Experiment 1 focuses on the psychological costs of compliance exclusion on the ostracizer.A random selection of 90 college students from northwestern China was conducted through the Cyberball network ball-tossing game to control the exclusion of positive and negative emotions and basic psychological needs as operational indicators of psychological costs.The results showed that such compliance worsened mood compared with complying with instructions to include others and with receiving no instructions involving inclusion or exclusion,an effect explained by thwarted psychological needs resulting from ostracizing others.The ostracizer had lower positive emotions,higher negative emotions,and lower autonomy and relatedness,indicating that the ostracizer's emotional deterioration and basic psychological needs were threatened,thus rejecting the people who complying with ostracizing other people is psychologically costly.Experiment 2 focuses on the impact of agreeableness on the psychological costs of adhering to exclusion practitioners.Randomly selected 120 college students in the northwest region still use the Cyberball network ball-tossing game to follow the exclusion of manipulation.Through the essay,describe the agreeableness of the excluded personality traits,and measure the positive and negative emotions and basic psychological needs of the ostracizer.It was found that the ostracizer ostracized someone described as low in agreeableness had lower positive emotions and higher negative emotions,as well as lower autonomy and relatedness than the ostracizer ostracized someone described as high in agreeableness.Experiment 3 focuses on the impact of the agreeableness and helping behavior on the psychological cost of complying with the exclusion ostracizer.The Cyberball network ball-tossing game is also used to control the exclusion.The essay describes the agreeableness and behavior of the excluded and analyzes the impact of the two on the psychological cost of the exclusionary ostracizer.It was found that the ostracizer ostracized someone described as high in agreeableness and helping behaviors had lower positive emotions and higher negative emotions,and only relatedness were affected.The current research results show that the psychological cost of the ostracizer is related to the compliance of ostracism,while the high agreeableness and helping behavior of the excluded worsens mood of the ostracizer,reduces the autonomy and the relatedness,and then increases the psychological cost.