Tend-and-befriend behaviour during spaceflight simulation

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521005889" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521005889</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.11.001" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.11.001</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Tend-and-befriend behaviour during spaceflight simulation

Original language description

Stress under extreme conditions can promote not only negative reactions but also prosocial behaviour or provision of protection and social support. This study presents research aimed at detecting the ‘tend-and-befriend’ stress response among crewmembers of the SIRIUS-19 international spaceflight simulation (120 days, 3 men, 3 women). Emotional energy proved to be a good indicator of individual capability to emotionally invest in relationships with crewmates. To measure emotional energy, we applied a subscale of Shirom-Melamed Vigor Measure. Personal Self Perception and Attitudes computerised test and sociometry were used to assess cohesion and psychological closeness in the crew. The results show a high level of emotional energy invested by the crew in their crewmates. Crew cohesion, assessed on the basis of reciprocal sociometric choices, and psychological closeness, measured as perceived similarity, both tended to increase during the isolation experiment. In a mixed crew, both men and women showed high levels of emotional energy and social support. It seems therefore that in a cohesive crew, emotional relationships – expressed in increased psychological closeness, emotional energy, and the tend-and-befriend behaviour (provision of mutual protection and assistance) – represent the dominant prosocial response to the challenge of social isolation. This line of research deserves further development in the context of simulated space flights and would profit from further work on instruments aimed at a deeper analysis of emotional relationships in small isolated groups.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Astronautica

ISSN

0094-5765

e-ISSN

1879-2030

Volume of the periodical

191

Issue of the periodical within the volume

únor

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

79-87

UT code for WoS article

000772023500006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85118892364