Misremembering Solitude: The Role of Personality and Cultural Self-Concepts in Shaping Discrepancies Between Recalled and Concurrent Affect in Solitude.

Autor: Lay JC; Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK., Ho YW; Department of Psychology, Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR, China., Tse DCK; Department of Psychological Sciences and Health, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK., Tse JTK; Centre for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, London, UK.; Barts the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK., Jiang D; Department of Special Education and Counselling, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of personality [J Pers] 2024 Aug 16. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 16.
DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12971
Abstrakt: Background: Affect recall is key to psychological assessment and decision-making. However, self-concepts (self-beliefs) may bias retrospective affect reports such that they deviate from lived experiences. Does this experience-memory gap apply to solitude experiences? We hypothesized that individuals misremember how they feel overall and when in solitude, in line with self-concepts of introversion, self-determined/not-self-determined solitude motivations, and independent/interdependent self-construal. A pilot study comparing retrospective to daily affect reports captured over 2 weeks (N = 104 UK university students) provided preliminary evidence of introversion and not-self-determined solitude shaping affect recall.
Methods: In the main pre-registered study, participants aged 18-49 in the UK (N = 160) and Hong Kong (N = 159) reported their momentary affective states and social situations 5 times per day over 7 days, then recalled how they felt over the week.
Results and Discussion: Individuals higher in self-determined solitude were more prone to retrospectively overestimate their high- and low-arousal positive affect in solitude and showed less overestimation/more underestimation of negative affect in solitude. Higher not-self-determined solitude was associated with overestimating loneliness, and higher interdependent self-construal with overestimating loneliness and energy levels, in solitude. Comparisons based on residence/ethnicity suggest culture influences solitude-seeking and affective memory. Implications for well-being and affect measurement are discussed.
(© 2024 The Author(s). Journal of Personality published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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