Pub Date : 2022-12-05DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2022.2154258
Xi Zou, C. Sedikides, T. Wildschut
ABSTRACT We propose that COVID-related stress undermines felt authenticity, but also triggers nostalgia. In turn, nostalgia conduces to felt authenticity, thereby counteracting the deleterious impact of COVID-related stress. We tested this regulatory model of nostalgia in two studies. Study 1 was an online cross-sectional study during the pandemic, in which we assessed COVID-related stress, nostalgia, and authenticity. In Study 2, we followed a group of working adults in a daily diary study across five workdays. We assessed COVID-related stress each morning, organizational nostalgia at midday, and authenticity at the end of the workday. The results of both studies were consistent with the palliative role of nostalgia in support of the regulatory model.
{"title":"What Good is Organizational Nostalgia in the Time of Pandemic? Unpacking a Pathway from COVID-Related Stress to Authenticity at Work","authors":"Xi Zou, C. Sedikides, T. Wildschut","doi":"10.1080/15298868.2022.2154258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2022.2154258","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We propose that COVID-related stress undermines felt authenticity, but also triggers nostalgia. In turn, nostalgia conduces to felt authenticity, thereby counteracting the deleterious impact of COVID-related stress. We tested this regulatory model of nostalgia in two studies. Study 1 was an online cross-sectional study during the pandemic, in which we assessed COVID-related stress, nostalgia, and authenticity. In Study 2, we followed a group of working adults in a daily diary study across five workdays. We assessed COVID-related stress each morning, organizational nostalgia at midday, and authenticity at the end of the workday. The results of both studies were consistent with the palliative role of nostalgia in support of the regulatory model.","PeriodicalId":51426,"journal":{"name":"Self and Identity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43011410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-17DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2022.2146183
Michelle Tornquist, E. Miles
ABSTRACT Three studies (N = 555) examined whether emotion regulation and emotions help people higher in trait self-control (TSC) to achieve their goals. Because emotion utility beliefs predict emotion regulation and performance, Study 1a examined whether TSC predicts emotion utility beliefs in two performance contexts, and Study 1b examined whether these beliefs predict preferences to regulate emotions. Study 2 examined whether TSC predicts choice to regulate emotions, and how choice and emotions influence self-control performance. While TSC did not predict emotion regulation, people higher in TSC considered positive (negative) emotions more (less) useful and experienced more (less) positive (negative) emotion after an emotion regulation task, which enhanced their self-control performance. This research underscores the role of emotion regulation and emotions in self-control.
{"title":"Trait self-control and beliefs about the utility of emotions and emotion regulation in self-control performance","authors":"Michelle Tornquist, E. Miles","doi":"10.1080/15298868.2022.2146183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2022.2146183","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Three studies (N = 555) examined whether emotion regulation and emotions help people higher in trait self-control (TSC) to achieve their goals. Because emotion utility beliefs predict emotion regulation and performance, Study 1a examined whether TSC predicts emotion utility beliefs in two performance contexts, and Study 1b examined whether these beliefs predict preferences to regulate emotions. Study 2 examined whether TSC predicts choice to regulate emotions, and how choice and emotions influence self-control performance. While TSC did not predict emotion regulation, people higher in TSC considered positive (negative) emotions more (less) useful and experienced more (less) positive (negative) emotion after an emotion regulation task, which enhanced their self-control performance. This research underscores the role of emotion regulation and emotions in self-control.","PeriodicalId":51426,"journal":{"name":"Self and Identity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42897569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-17DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2022.2146742
Chanel Meyers, S. Gaither, Jéssica Lúcia dos Remédios, Kristin Pauker
ABSTRACT Past work on Black and Latinx individuals demonstrates that observers can accurately predict an individual’s racial identity strength based on the observers’ perceptions of the individual’s phenotypic prototypicality (how much someone looks like a prototypical member of their racial group). However, the growing Biracial demographic varies considerably in racial identification, suggesting a monoracial approach to infer racial identity strength may not translate to Biracial individuals. In three studies, Biracial Black/White participants were photographed and completed a racial identity strength scale. Subsequently, we had raters judge the Biracial targets’ phenotypic prototypicality and perceived levels racial identity strength. Overall, perceivers could not accurately predict Biracial individuals’ racial identity strength via their phenotypic prototypicality.
{"title":"Detecting biracial identity strength: Perceived phenotypicality is inaccurate","authors":"Chanel Meyers, S. Gaither, Jéssica Lúcia dos Remédios, Kristin Pauker","doi":"10.1080/15298868.2022.2146742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2022.2146742","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Past work on Black and Latinx individuals demonstrates that observers can accurately predict an individual’s racial identity strength based on the observers’ perceptions of the individual’s phenotypic prototypicality (how much someone looks like a prototypical member of their racial group). However, the growing Biracial demographic varies considerably in racial identification, suggesting a monoracial approach to infer racial identity strength may not translate to Biracial individuals. In three studies, Biracial Black/White participants were photographed and completed a racial identity strength scale. Subsequently, we had raters judge the Biracial targets’ phenotypic prototypicality and perceived levels racial identity strength. Overall, perceivers could not accurately predict Biracial individuals’ racial identity strength via their phenotypic prototypicality.","PeriodicalId":51426,"journal":{"name":"Self and Identity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45547241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-06DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2022.2131618
Simon Ozer, Milan Obaidi, S. Schwartz
ABSTRACT Research has identified sociocultural challenges (life attachment) to be a primary motivator for radicalization. While individual differences may provide information about who might be at risk for radicalization, little is known about how different identity processing styles are linked with radicalization. In two studies (N = 975), we examined how identity styles can moderate the association between life attachment and various aspects of extremism. We found that insecure life attachment was significantly and positively associated with radicalization, and this association was strengthened by the normative and the diffuse-avoidant identity style. Results are discussed in relation to identity processes in late modernity, suggesting that personal identity development may emerge as an important factor in the multifaceted process of radicalization.
{"title":"Radicalized Identity Styles: Investigating Sociocultural Challenges, Identity Styles, and Extremism","authors":"Simon Ozer, Milan Obaidi, S. Schwartz","doi":"10.1080/15298868.2022.2131618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2022.2131618","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Research has identified sociocultural challenges (life attachment) to be a primary motivator for radicalization. While individual differences may provide information about who might be at risk for radicalization, little is known about how different identity processing styles are linked with radicalization. In two studies (N = 975), we examined how identity styles can moderate the association between life attachment and various aspects of extremism. We found that insecure life attachment was significantly and positively associated with radicalization, and this association was strengthened by the normative and the diffuse-avoidant identity style. Results are discussed in relation to identity processes in late modernity, suggesting that personal identity development may emerge as an important factor in the multifaceted process of radicalization.","PeriodicalId":51426,"journal":{"name":"Self and Identity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59939994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-04DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2022.2117241
H. A. Vu, Luis M. Rivera
ABSTRACT Self-compassion, rooted in common humanity, self-kindness, and mindfulness, is an adaptive self-concept that assuages defensiveness to self-image threats. We hypothesized that self-compassion would buffer the need to express negative intergroup attitudes and that this relation would be explained by compassion for others. In a preregistered study, participants (N = 163) with stronger self-compassion rooted in common humanity, but not self-kindness or mindfulness, expressed less negative attitudes toward outgroups than those with lower self-compassion rooted in common humanity. Moreover, this relation persisted even after controlling for self-esteem, a construct related to but distinct from self-compassion. Finally, compassion for others mediated the relation between self-compassion and intergroup attitudes. These findings support the positive and unique role of individual-level self-compassion in intergroup relations.
{"title":"Self-compassion and negative outgroup attitudes: The mediating role of compassion for others","authors":"H. A. Vu, Luis M. Rivera","doi":"10.1080/15298868.2022.2117241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2022.2117241","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Self-compassion, rooted in common humanity, self-kindness, and mindfulness, is an adaptive self-concept that assuages defensiveness to self-image threats. We hypothesized that self-compassion would buffer the need to express negative intergroup attitudes and that this relation would be explained by compassion for others. In a preregistered study, participants (N = 163) with stronger self-compassion rooted in common humanity, but not self-kindness or mindfulness, expressed less negative attitudes toward outgroups than those with lower self-compassion rooted in common humanity. Moreover, this relation persisted even after controlling for self-esteem, a construct related to but distinct from self-compassion. Finally, compassion for others mediated the relation between self-compassion and intergroup attitudes. These findings support the positive and unique role of individual-level self-compassion in intergroup relations.","PeriodicalId":51426,"journal":{"name":"Self and Identity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44546780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2022.2113124
Katharina Block, Audrey E. Aday, William Hall, T. Schmader
ABSTRACT Can a politician cue national identity and fit? Given that Trump’s rhetoric often signaled the devaluation of certain groups, we examined this across three pre-registered studies . In Study1 (2017), targets of Trump’s rhetoric reported less social fit, greater social identity threat, and expected increased discrimination . In Study2 (2017), marginalized targets reported less fit and American identification as well as greater threat and discrimination when anticipating Trump(vs. Obama). Study3, conducted during the 2020 election, revealed that racialized participants felt greater fit and American identification after (vs. before) Biden’s victory , but effects of Trump’s presidency on expected discrimination had not reversed. These findings suggest that a divisive leader can induce feelings of devaluation, threat, and national detachment.
{"title":"Making America great for whom?: How Trump’s Presidency affected fit and national identity among targets of bias","authors":"Katharina Block, Audrey E. Aday, William Hall, T. Schmader","doi":"10.1080/15298868.2022.2113124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2022.2113124","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Can a politician cue national identity and fit? Given that Trump’s rhetoric often signaled the devaluation of certain groups, we examined this across three pre-registered studies . In Study1 (2017), targets of Trump’s rhetoric reported less social fit, greater social identity threat, and expected increased discrimination . In Study2 (2017), marginalized targets reported less fit and American identification as well as greater threat and discrimination when anticipating Trump(vs. Obama). Study3, conducted during the 2020 election, revealed that racialized participants felt greater fit and American identification after (vs. before) Biden’s victory , but effects of Trump’s presidency on expected discrimination had not reversed. These findings suggest that a divisive leader can induce feelings of devaluation, threat, and national detachment.","PeriodicalId":51426,"journal":{"name":"Self and Identity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43878213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-29DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2022.2117733
S. Ketay, Lindsey A. Beck, Juli Dajci
ABSTRACT The present study investigated links between self-compassion and responses to social stress. Participants (N = 102) were randomly assigned to a self-compassion training or a comparison condition and engaged in the Trier Social Stress Test for Groups (TSST-G). Measures of trait self-compassion, subjective perceptions of stress, and salivary cortisol were collected. Participants with higher trait self-compassion had significantly lower subjective and cortisol responses to stress during the TSST-G than did participants with lower trait self-compassion. Participants in the self-compassion training condition did not have significantly lower responses to stress. Results suggest that trait self-compassion is linked with subjective and physiological responses to a social-evaluative stressor. Implications for trait self-compassion and self-compassion training on subjective and physiological responses to stress are discussed.
{"title":"Self-compassion and social stress: Links with subjective stress and cortisol responses","authors":"S. Ketay, Lindsey A. Beck, Juli Dajci","doi":"10.1080/15298868.2022.2117733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2022.2117733","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present study investigated links between self-compassion and responses to social stress. Participants (N = 102) were randomly assigned to a self-compassion training or a comparison condition and engaged in the Trier Social Stress Test for Groups (TSST-G). Measures of trait self-compassion, subjective perceptions of stress, and salivary cortisol were collected. Participants with higher trait self-compassion had significantly lower subjective and cortisol responses to stress during the TSST-G than did participants with lower trait self-compassion. Participants in the self-compassion training condition did not have significantly lower responses to stress. Results suggest that trait self-compassion is linked with subjective and physiological responses to a social-evaluative stressor. Implications for trait self-compassion and self-compassion training on subjective and physiological responses to stress are discussed.","PeriodicalId":51426,"journal":{"name":"Self and Identity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47211404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-16DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2022.2111341
Jonathan M Gallegos, Karen Gasper, Nathaniel E. C. Schermerhorn
ABSTRACT Four experiments tested the hypothesis that meeting someone new who is boring would result in people feeling superior to the boring individual, which would then result in people viewing themselves as better than others and increased confidence. Respondents reported greater feelings of superiority, meaninglessness, and difficulty paying attention when they wrote about meeting a new, boring individual than a new or manipulative individual. Feeling superior, but not meaninglessness and attention, mediated the effect of interpersonal boredom on viewing oneself as better than others, but not on confidence. These finding did not occur when people wrote about a boring task or a disliked, manipulative individual. The experiments elucidate how interpersonal boredom, albeit a negative experience, can enhance people’s sense of self.
{"title":"Bored and better: Interpersonal boredom results in people feeling not only superior to the boring individual, but also to others","authors":"Jonathan M Gallegos, Karen Gasper, Nathaniel E. C. Schermerhorn","doi":"10.1080/15298868.2022.2111341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2022.2111341","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Four experiments tested the hypothesis that meeting someone new who is boring would result in people feeling superior to the boring individual, which would then result in people viewing themselves as better than others and increased confidence. Respondents reported greater feelings of superiority, meaninglessness, and difficulty paying attention when they wrote about meeting a new, boring individual than a new or manipulative individual. Feeling superior, but not meaninglessness and attention, mediated the effect of interpersonal boredom on viewing oneself as better than others, but not on confidence. These finding did not occur when people wrote about a boring task or a disliked, manipulative individual. The experiments elucidate how interpersonal boredom, albeit a negative experience, can enhance people’s sense of self.","PeriodicalId":51426,"journal":{"name":"Self and Identity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46407287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-02DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2022.2104363
D. Bailis, Alanna Single, Nicolas J. Brais, Benjamin J. I. Schellenberg
ABSTRACT Although self-compassion is adaptive in coping with past mistakes, few studies have examined its relationship to future risks. In gambling, self-compassion toward possible losses could lead to greater or lesser risk-taking, and the direction of this relationship could depend on the presence of problem gambling. Across 3 laboratory studies, using multi-level modeling, this research tested how self-compassion relates to the progression of risk-taking in gambling games, and whether problem gambling severity moderates this relationship. Results showed that self-compassion has little relationship to gambling decisions by those with no signs of problem gambling already, and that higher self-compassion is associated with more risk-taking by those with any prior signs. The findings reveal a complex relationship of self-compassion to risk and well-being.
{"title":"Going for broke: Self-compassion, risky decision-making, and differences in problem gambling severity among undergraduates","authors":"D. Bailis, Alanna Single, Nicolas J. Brais, Benjamin J. I. Schellenberg","doi":"10.1080/15298868.2022.2104363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2022.2104363","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although self-compassion is adaptive in coping with past mistakes, few studies have examined its relationship to future risks. In gambling, self-compassion toward possible losses could lead to greater or lesser risk-taking, and the direction of this relationship could depend on the presence of problem gambling. Across 3 laboratory studies, using multi-level modeling, this research tested how self-compassion relates to the progression of risk-taking in gambling games, and whether problem gambling severity moderates this relationship. Results showed that self-compassion has little relationship to gambling decisions by those with no signs of problem gambling already, and that higher self-compassion is associated with more risk-taking by those with any prior signs. The findings reveal a complex relationship of self-compassion to risk and well-being.","PeriodicalId":51426,"journal":{"name":"Self and Identity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49592328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-19DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2022.2099455
P. Harris, Alice Richards, R. Bond
ABSTRACT In two online studies, we test whether spontaneous self-affirmation (measured by the Spontaneous Self-Affirmation Measure, SSAM) predicts better mental health and coping and the role that self-esteem and dispositional optimism play in these relationships. Study 1 (N = 110) was cross-sectional. In study 2 (N = 192) we collected the mental health measures one month post-baseline. Consistent with pre-registered hypotheses, the SSAM predicted less anxiety, depression and avoidant coping, and greater wellbeing and non-avoidant coping; however, relationships involving self-esteem and optimism varied with the reported source of self-affirmation measured by the SSAM (strengths, values, social relations). Overall, the findings are generally consistent with the hypothesis that spontaneous self-affirmation tends to function as a resource that fosters positive coping with threats.
{"title":"Individual differences in spontaneous self-affirmation and mental health: relationships with self-esteem, dispositional optimism and coping","authors":"P. Harris, Alice Richards, R. Bond","doi":"10.1080/15298868.2022.2099455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2022.2099455","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In two online studies, we test whether spontaneous self-affirmation (measured by the Spontaneous Self-Affirmation Measure, SSAM) predicts better mental health and coping and the role that self-esteem and dispositional optimism play in these relationships. Study 1 (N = 110) was cross-sectional. In study 2 (N = 192) we collected the mental health measures one month post-baseline. Consistent with pre-registered hypotheses, the SSAM predicted less anxiety, depression and avoidant coping, and greater wellbeing and non-avoidant coping; however, relationships involving self-esteem and optimism varied with the reported source of self-affirmation measured by the SSAM (strengths, values, social relations). Overall, the findings are generally consistent with the hypothesis that spontaneous self-affirmation tends to function as a resource that fosters positive coping with threats.","PeriodicalId":51426,"journal":{"name":"Self and Identity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42594903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}