Perceived Emotional Synchrony in Collective Gatherings: Validation of a Short Scale and Proposition of an Integrative Measure

Frontiers in Psychology

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Anna Wlodarczyk¹  Larraitz Zumeta²  José Joaquin Pizarro²  Pierre Bouchat³  Fuad Hatibovic⁴  Nekane Basabe²  Bernard Rimé³ 

[1] Universidad Católica del Norte;Faculty of Psychology, University of the Basque Country;Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l’Éducation, Université catholique de Louvain;Universidad de Valparaíso

关键词: perceived emotional synchrony;    collective effervescence;    collective gatherings;    Durkheim;    well-being;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01721

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Over the past decade, there has been an increasing interest in the relationship between participation in collective gatherings and rituals and different important psychosocial variables and processes, such as social sharing of emotions, group cohesion, identity fusion, prosocial tendencies and behaviors, and well-being (e.g., Rimé, 2009 ; Xygalatas et al., 2013 ; Khan et al., 2015 ; Páez et al., 2015 ). These studies, coming from different lines of research, have proposed diverse explanatory mechanisms to explain the positive social and psychological effects of collective gatherings. In the present article, we focus on one of these mechanisms, known as collective effervescence, emotional communion, emotional entrainment, or perceived emotional synchrony (PES). First, we briefly discuss current conceptions of the emotional states and experience during collective gatherings and what they bring to the definition of PES. We close this point by proposing an integrative definition of PES. Second, structural validity of the original PES scale is examined. Third, incremental validity of PES is examined in two longitudinal studies, particularly with respect to well-being. Finally, we propose an integrative short form of the PES Scale, which measures antecedents and behavioral effects of collective effervescence.

【 授权许可】

CC BY