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Inflammation-Associated Mood Deterioration and the Degradation of Affective Climate: An Agent-Based Model

Craze, Gareth John
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1595451097576364

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2020, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Organizational Behavior.
Affective climate constitutes the collective mood of organizational members. A positive affective climate has been viewed as a prerequisite of a healthy organization in which employees can achieve individual and collective goals, and is associated with greater individual loyalty to the organization and improved team performance, among other positive organizational outcomes. Leaders are the architects of the affective climate in teams, and through the process of mood contagion, the moods of leaders typically exert an outsized influence on the moods of those that they lead. Inflammation-associated mood deterioration (IAMD) has been demonstrated under experimental conditions, and has been linked to an increased incidence of mood disorder symptomatology. Across two studies, I use agent-based modeling to model affective climate, and its potential degradation over time via IAMD, as an emergent phenomenon that can be generated through the interaction of team members based on simple local rules. I simulate an organizational environment in which tasks and social interactions represent affective events, resulting in subsequent affective responses in the form of altered mood states via mood contagion. In Study 1, by employing parametric sensitivity analyses and the criterion of generative sufficiency, I found that increases in focal leader IAMD resulted in affective climate degradation over time. Increases in focal leader IAMD also resulted in climates that were more variable over time, and for which a more pronounced differential in follower moods also drove climate degradation. Increasing the number of teams within the simulated environment buffered against climate degradation and produced climates that were relatively more stable. In Study 2, non-linear patterns in affective climate were observed which reflected variations in distance between teams interacting with the effects of IAMD on the focal leader over time, resulting in non-linear degradations of climate. Findings from Study 1 suggest that IAMD is sufficient to generate affective climate degradation over time, which can be offset in the socio-structural environment through positive inter-team interactions. Findings from Study 2 suggest that these socio-structural effects may reflect the spatial interactions of separate contagions, through which overall affective climate is spared but individual team climates may continue to degrade.
Corinne Coen (Committee Chair)
Ronald Fry (Committee Member)
Kurt Stange (Committee Member)
Youngjin Yoo (Committee Member)
148 p.
Epidemiology; Organization Theory; Organizational Behavior
mood; mood contagion; affective climate; inflammation; chronic inflammation; mental health; depression; agent-based modeling; organizational epidemiology; simulation modeling

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  • Craze, G. J. (2020). Inflammation-Associated Mood Deterioration and the Degradation of Affective Climate: An Agent-Based Model [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1595451097576364

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Craze, Gareth. Inflammation-Associated Mood Deterioration and the Degradation of Affective Climate: An Agent-Based Model. 2020. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1595451097576364.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Craze, Gareth. "Inflammation-Associated Mood Deterioration and the Degradation of Affective Climate: An Agent-Based Model." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1595451097576364

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