From nostalgia, through communion, to psychological benefits: the moderating role of narcissism

IF 1.7 4区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Self and Identity Pub Date : 2023-06-21 DOI:10.1080/15298868.2023.2228544

Olga Bialobrzeska, T. Wildschut, C. Sedikides

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for one’s past, is a social, self-relevant, and ambivalent (albeit predominantly positive) emotion. It fosters tenderness, social connectedness, life meaning, self-continuity, self-esteem, optimism, and inspiration. In two experiments, we manipulated nostalgia and examined mechanisms underlying its psychological benefits. Two communal mechanisms emerged consistently: love-friendship and unity-togetherness. The findings establish the sociality of nostalgia, identifying the communion mechanisms of love-friendship and unity-togetherness as mediators of nostalgia’s benefits. The findings also identified narcissism as a moderator of nostalgia’s benefits: although both high and low narcissists gained benefits via increased communion, high narcissists also experienced a reduction in some benefits due to decreased agency.

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从怀旧，通过交流，到心理益处：自恋的调节作用

怀旧是一种对过去的情感渴望，是一种社会性的、自我相关的、矛盾的（尽管主要是积极的）情绪。它培养了温柔、社会联系、生活意义、自我延续、自尊、乐观和灵感。在两个实验中，我们操纵了怀旧情绪，并考察了其心理益处的潜在机制。两种共同机制始终如一地出现：爱的友谊和团结在一起。研究结果确立了怀旧的社会性，确定了爱、友谊和团结的交流机制是怀旧利益的中介。研究结果还表明，自恋是怀旧益处的调节因素：尽管高自恋者和低自恋者都通过增加交流获得了益处，但高自恋者也因代理减少而减少了一些益处。

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Self and Identity PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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5.10

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期刊介绍： Work on self and identity has a special place in the study of human nature, as self-concerns are arguably at the center of individuals" striving for well-being and for making sense of one"s life. Life goals develop and are influenced by one"s view of what one is like, the way one would ideally like to be (or would like to avoid being), as well as one"s perceptions of what is feasible. Furthermore, conceptions of self and the world affect how one"s progress towards these goals is monitored, evaluated, redirected, re-evaluated, and pursued again. Thus, the “self” as a construct has far-reaching implications for behavior, self-esteem, motivation, experience of emotions and the world more broadly, and hence for interpersonal relationships, society, and culture.