Companion Versus Comparison: Examining Seeking Social Companionship or Social Comparison as Characteristics That Differentiate Happy and Unhappy People
| Autor: | Joshua A. Hicks, Incheol Choi, Emily K. Hong, Jinhyung Kim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Value (ethics)
Adult Male Social Psychology Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Happiness Self-concept 050109 social psychology Friends Affect (psychology) 050105 experimental psychology Interpersonal relationship Young Adult Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Interpersonal Relations Social Behavior media_common Social comparison theory Social perception 05 social sciences Middle Aged Self Concept Affect Social Perception Female Psychology Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Personalitysocial psychology bulletin. 42(3) |
| ISSN: | 1552-7433 |
| Popis: | Which friend do you want to spend time with—a happy friend who performs better than you or an unhappy friend who performs worse than you? The present research demonstrates that in such conflicting situations, when the desires for companionship and comparison are pitted against each other, one’s level of happiness plays an important role in one’s choice. Using hypothetical scenarios, we found that compared with unhappy people, happy people expected that spending time with a happy, superior friend would be more pleasant than spending time with an unhappy, inferior friend (Studies 1B through 2) and were more willing to socialize with a happy, superior friend than with an unhappy, inferior friend (Studies 1B through 2). Moreover, this pattern was not explained by self-esteem (Study 2) or the similarity-attraction hypothesis (Study 3). The present findings suggest that happy people place more value on companionship than on comparison. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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