Implicit attitudes and social isolation

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25780371
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social psychology
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: Igarashi Tasuku 名古屋大学, 教育発達科学研究科, 准教授 (90547837)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 社会的ネットワーク / 潜在的態度

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This longitudinal research investigated the process of social isolation in a social network in relation to maladaptive interpersonal reactions driven by negative implicit self-esteem. The data were collected from first-year undergraduates four times in a year. Analysis based on the stochastic actor-oriented model revealed that, under controlling for structural effects on relationship formation, high implicit self-esteem inhibited the expansion of social networks for information-seeking, and explicit self-esteem was positively associated with implicit self-esteem over time. The result implies that negative implicit self-esteem does not cause exclusion from others, but rather increase inactivity in relationship construction; and interventions to explicit self-esteem may be effective to the recovery of negative implicit self-esteem.

Free Research Field

社会心理学