Exploring the effects of interviewer body language availability during a videoconference behavioral health interview

<p>This experiment sought to explore whether an interviewer’s body language availability would have any effects on participants’ interactional engagement levels, positivity-negativity of interaction, and their nonverbal synchrony. Six participants answered questions about their well-being during a Zoom interview. Participants were exposed to three Near and three Far video framing conditions alternating every 10 min. Results showed that body language availability did not have reliable effects on the examined nonverbal communication indices. Time, however, did have some significant and close-to-significant effects on certain variables. Treatment reversal graphs showed that body language availability may reliably impact some participants’ responding. However, the rarity and variability of these patterns suggest that these relationships will be unlikely demonstrated in large-n research. The relationship between body language</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2024

Author dc:creator

• Orkopoulou, Efthymia

Contributors dc:contributor

• Thomas Waltz, PhD, PhD
• Claudia Drossel, PhD, PhD
• Alexandros Maragakis, PhD

• behavioral health interview
• body language availability
• interactional engagement
• nonverbal communication
• proxemics
• videoconferencing
• Clinical Psychology
• Communication
• Language Interpretation and Translation

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.emich.edu/theses/1268

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.emich.edu:theses-2621