The Emotional States Elicited in a Human Tower Performance: Case Study was published in Frontiers.
The study set out to examine emotional states (well-being, discomfort and affectivity) during a representative performance by the Castellers de Lleida group in Plaça Paeria, Lleida.
The main finding was that building human towers elicited mostly positive emotional states. The practice’s internal cooperative logic encouraged intense interpersonal relationships associated with socio-emotional well-being.
This innovative study of the castellers, a traditional sporting game and a distinctive expression of Catalan identity, was led by Sabrine Damian-Silva1, Carles Feixa2, Queralt Prat1, Rafael Luchoro-Parrilla1, Miguel Pic Aguilar3, Aaron Rillo-Albert4, Unai Saez de Ocariz4, Antoni Costes1 and Pere Lavega-Burgués1.
Front. Psychol., 01 April 2021 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.611279
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Keywords: ethnomotricity, intangible cultural heritage, traditional sporting game, motor praxiology, human towers
Citation: Damian-Silva S, Feixa C, Prat Q, Luchoro-Parrilla R, Pic M, Rillo-Albert A, Sáez de Ocáriz U, Costes A and Lavega-Burgués P (2021) The Emotional States Elicited in a Human Tower Performance: Case Study. Front. Psychol. 12:611279. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.611279
ABSTRACT: Human Towers are one of the most representative traditional sporting games in Catalonia, recognized in 2010 as Intangible Cultural Heritage by the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO). The objective of this research was to study the emotional states (well-being, discomfort, and affectivity) elicited by a representative performance of the colla de Castellers de Lleida. This research is based on an ethnographic case study, with mixed methods in which 17 key informants (castellers) voluntarily participated. Participant observation was used; the data were recorded in a field diary and oral sources (semi-structured interviews). The content analysis was done using the Atlas.ti software (version 8.4.4). An SPSS database was also created. The statistical techniques were: Descriptive statistical techniques, cross tables with Pearson’s Chi-square values (significance level of p < 0.05). We also used a classification and regression trees (CRT) to examine the predictive capacity of five independent variables (data source, logic, semantic units; contexts of a performance) of emotional states. The results reveal that the comments (n = 132) were mostly oriented toward well-being states (n = 70; 53%), The internal cooperative logic of the Human Towers enhances the intense interpersonal relationships of socio-emotional well-being.