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The Cyberball task in people after obesity surgery: preliminary evaluation of cognitive effects of social inclusion and exclusion with a laboratory task

BACKGROUND: Social cognition and temperamental and interpretative styles could play a role in the outcome of bariatric surgery. This study aims to assess preliminary evidence about how obesity surgery patients evaluate social inclusion and exclusion through a ball-tossing game called Cyberball, look...

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Autores principales: Meneguzzo, Paolo, Tenconi, Elena, Collantoni, Enrico, Longobardi, Gloria, Zappalà, Adele, Vindigni, Vincenzo, Favaro, Angela, Pavan, Chiara
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8435164/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34510394
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40519-021-01297-z
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author Meneguzzo, Paolo
Tenconi, Elena
Collantoni, Enrico
Longobardi, Gloria
Zappalà, Adele
Vindigni, Vincenzo
Favaro, Angela
Pavan, Chiara
author_facet Meneguzzo, Paolo
Tenconi, Elena
Collantoni, Enrico
Longobardi, Gloria
Zappalà, Adele
Vindigni, Vincenzo
Favaro, Angela
Pavan, Chiara
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description BACKGROUND: Social cognition and temperamental and interpretative styles could play a role in the outcome of bariatric surgery. This study aims to assess preliminary evidence about how obesity surgery patients evaluate social inclusion and exclusion through a ball-tossing game called Cyberball, looking at the influence of early maladaptive schemas. METHODS: Thirty-four patients with a history of obesity surgery interventions and 44 controls were recruited for this study. A psychological evaluation was performed before and after the Cyberball task with self-report questionnaires. RESULTS: In the ostracism condition, significant differences were seen across all the patients’ fundamental psychological needs with less perceived ostracization (p = 0.001) even if they recognized less interaction via fewer ball tosses than controls. Moreover, the ostracism paradigm resulted in patients experiencing a higher urge to binge (p = 0.010) and a higher urge to restrain (p = 0.012) than controls. Looking at differences due to the Cyberball paradigm applied, clear differences emerged only between controls subgroups at the specific self-report scales applied, corroborating the reduced perception of the exclusion. As evidenced by the schema domains, the study found a connection between the impaired limits-schema domain and the drive to binge. CONCLUSION: The results show that obesity surgery patients reported different effects of the Cyberball task than controls. Different possible interpretations are discussed, and future directions for studies are exposed, both for the evaluation of social interactions effects and in the assessment of the role of specific cognitive schemas. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III: evidence obtained from well-designed cohort or case–control analytic studies.
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spelling pubmed-84351642021-09-13 The Cyberball task in people after obesity surgery: preliminary evaluation of cognitive effects of social inclusion and exclusion with a laboratory task Meneguzzo, Paolo Tenconi, Elena Collantoni, Enrico Longobardi, Gloria Zappalà, Adele Vindigni, Vincenzo Favaro, Angela Pavan, Chiara Eat Weight Disord Original Article BACKGROUND: Social cognition and temperamental and interpretative styles could play a role in the outcome of bariatric surgery. This study aims to assess preliminary evidence about how obesity surgery patients evaluate social inclusion and exclusion through a ball-tossing game called Cyberball, looking at the influence of early maladaptive schemas. METHODS: Thirty-four patients with a history of obesity surgery interventions and 44 controls were recruited for this study. A psychological evaluation was performed before and after the Cyberball task with self-report questionnaires. RESULTS: In the ostracism condition, significant differences were seen across all the patients’ fundamental psychological needs with less perceived ostracization (p = 0.001) even if they recognized less interaction via fewer ball tosses than controls. Moreover, the ostracism paradigm resulted in patients experiencing a higher urge to binge (p = 0.010) and a higher urge to restrain (p = 0.012) than controls. Looking at differences due to the Cyberball paradigm applied, clear differences emerged only between controls subgroups at the specific self-report scales applied, corroborating the reduced perception of the exclusion. As evidenced by the schema domains, the study found a connection between the impaired limits-schema domain and the drive to binge. CONCLUSION: The results show that obesity surgery patients reported different effects of the Cyberball task than controls. Different possible interpretations are discussed, and future directions for studies are exposed, both for the evaluation of social interactions effects and in the assessment of the role of specific cognitive schemas. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III: evidence obtained from well-designed cohort or case–control analytic studies. Springer International Publishing 2021-09-12 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8435164/ /pubmed/34510394 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40519-021-01297-z Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Meneguzzo, Paolo
Tenconi, Elena
Collantoni, Enrico
Longobardi, Gloria
Zappalà, Adele
Vindigni, Vincenzo
Favaro, Angela
Pavan, Chiara
The Cyberball task in people after obesity surgery: preliminary evaluation of cognitive effects of social inclusion and exclusion with a laboratory task
title The Cyberball task in people after obesity surgery: preliminary evaluation of cognitive effects of social inclusion and exclusion with a laboratory task
title_full The Cyberball task in people after obesity surgery: preliminary evaluation of cognitive effects of social inclusion and exclusion with a laboratory task
title_fullStr The Cyberball task in people after obesity surgery: preliminary evaluation of cognitive effects of social inclusion and exclusion with a laboratory task
title_full_unstemmed The Cyberball task in people after obesity surgery: preliminary evaluation of cognitive effects of social inclusion and exclusion with a laboratory task
title_short The Cyberball task in people after obesity surgery: preliminary evaluation of cognitive effects of social inclusion and exclusion with a laboratory task
title_sort cyberball task in people after obesity surgery: preliminary evaluation of cognitive effects of social inclusion and exclusion with a laboratory task
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8435164/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34510394
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40519-021-01297-z
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