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Coping with Ostracism: a Neuroscientific Investigation of Mindset and Autistic Characteristics

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dc.contributorHan, Hyemin
dc.contributorHudac, Caitlin M.
dc.contributorWhite, Susan W.
dc.contributorWind, Stefanie
dc.contributor.advisorMorett, Laura M.
dc.contributor.authorNelson, Cailee Morgan
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-30T15:21:27Z
dc.date.available2023-11-30T15:21:27Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.descriptionElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
dc.description.abstractOstracism, or the perception of being ignored by others, is an aversive behavior that is universal to the human species. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are at an increased risk for ostracism over their lifetime. As ostracism can lead to enduring negative mental health outcomes, it is important to understand how individuals, especially autistic individuals, cope with these negative feelings. To better understand what influences coping responses to ostracism, this dissertation sought to develop and evaluate a new social and emotional mindset scale, examine how autistic characteristics and social and emotional mindset influence immediate behavioral and neural responses to ostracism, and investigate how immediate responses to ostracism, autistic characteristics, and social and emotional mindset influence later coping responses to ostracism. For the development of the social and emotional mindset scale, 413 adult participants completed the revised Social and Emotional Mindset Scale. Psychometric analyses revealed a simple, unidimensional structure. However, further examination of item level data found a mismatch between item and person locations indicating that the scale may not accurately identify differences between the two types of social and emotional mindset. Fifty separate adult participants completed a battery of survey measures that evaluated autistic characteristics and social and emotional mindset, a task that manipulated ostracism, and another task that measured delayed coping responses. Overall, results indicated that ostracism significantly increases self-reported reflexive feelings of distress but not distress as measured by brain activation. Additionally, results suggest that immediate feelings of distress may moderate the effect social and emotional mindset have on later coping responses to ostracism. Collectively, these studies did not provide evidence for connections to autistic characteristics but did provide initial evidence that differences in social and emotional mindset could influence coping responses to ostracism. Taken together with previous research that has demonstrated improved outcomes from interventions that emphasize incremental implicit theories of mindset, the present findings can better inform future studies that examine social and emotional mindset in social and emotional learning programs or interventions to help individuals remain resilient in the face of ostracism.en_US
dc.format.mediumelectronic
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dc.identifier.otherhttp://purl.lib.ua.edu/188268
dc.identifier.otheru0015_0000001_0004787
dc.identifier.otherNelson_alatus_0004D_15300
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/12774
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Alabama Libraries
dc.relation.hasversionborn digital
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections
dc.rightsAll rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated.en_US
dc.subjectautism spectrum disorder
dc.subjectfunctional near infrared spectroscopy
dc.subjectmindset
dc.subjectostracism
dc.subjectsocial and emotional learning
dc.titleCoping with Ostracism: a Neuroscientific Investigation of Mindset and Autistic Characteristicsen_us
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etdms.degree.departmentUniversity of Alabama. Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling
etdms.degree.disciplineEducational psychology
etdms.degree.grantorThe University of Alabama
etdms.degree.leveldoctoral
etdms.degree.namePh.D.

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