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Development of a Prosocial-Antisocial Tease Comprehension Measure

Pino, Lauren N
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9054-1879
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1620644287118665

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2021, Master of Science, Ohio State University, Psychology.
Teasing is a common but complex part of communication, especially when needing to distinguish between prosocial and antisocial intents/types. Its complexity may also explain the protracted development of prosocial-antisocial tease comprehension (PATC) into late childhood and continued difficulty with PATC into adolescence and adulthood. To understand this comprehension process, its development, and its difficulties, a measure is needed to study the nuances of PATC, but previous PATC measures are undermined by the lack of a theoretical basis and more intensive testing of and/or support for validity and reliability. This pair of studies begins the process of developing a new PATC measure based in social information processing theory (e.g., Dodge & Crick, 1990), which postulates that contextual and situational cues are used to navigate and comprehend complex, ambiguous social interactions. The measure features prosocial, antisocial, and ambiguous teases that vary in the number of cues and the specific cue categories (i.e., facial expression, gesture/body language, and relationship information) included. Study 1 tested the preliminary measure with a small sample, focusing on evaluation of tease types and participants’ explanations for those evaluations to move beyond face validity and test the expectations for the measure. Study 2 improved the measure and identified items for a more finalized measure by having a much larger sample evaluate the tease types of possible items. The expectations for the measure from social information processing theory and past research were all supported to some extent and replicated across the studies. Namely, participants used cues present in a tease scenario to guide their reasoning about PATC. The more cues an item had, the better the PATC and accuracy were. There were differences in item and general measure performance by tease type, and, finally, different cue categories had different effects on PATC and accuracy. Altogether, these findings expand what is known about PATC, while starting the process of developing a theoretically-based, valid, and reliable PATC measure that can be used to further explore these findings and the other aspects of PATC. More research will be needed to continue developing this measure and clarifying these findings, but these studies are a vital starting point for learning more about teasing and its comprehension.
John Gibbs, PhD (Advisor)
Stephen Petrill, PhD (Committee Member)
Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan, PhD (Committee Member)
187 p.
Psychology
psychology; social cognition; teasing; measure development

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  • Pino, L. N. (2021). Development of a Prosocial-Antisocial Tease Comprehension Measure [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1620644287118665

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Pino, Lauren. Development of a Prosocial-Antisocial Tease Comprehension Measure. 2021. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1620644287118665.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Pino, Lauren. "Development of a Prosocial-Antisocial Tease Comprehension Measure." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1620644287118665

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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