Webb, T.L. orcid.org/0000-0001-9320-0068, Benn, Y., Chang, B.P.I. et al. (4 more authors) (2020) The relationship between individual differences in spontaneous self-affirmation and affect associated with self-weighing. Journal of Research in Personality, 89. 104020. ISSN 0092-6566
Abstract
We investigate whether the tendency to self-affirm in response to threat is associated with how people feel when they weigh themselves. People who were preoccupied with their weight anticipated feeling less negative (Studies 1a and 1b) and felt less negative (Study 2) when self-weighing if they typically affirmed their strengths. Study 3 experimentally manipulated self-affirmation. Although this intervention prompted affirmation of strengths it did not influence how participants felt when they subsequently weighed themselves. Together, the findings suggest that the tendency to spontaneously affirm strengths, but not values or social relations, is associated with the psychological outcomes of self-weighing and thus provide the basis for understanding how such individual differences might moderate how people respond in other self-evaluative contexts.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Elsevier Inc. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Research in Personality. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Spontaneous self-affirmation; Self-integrity; Self-evaluation; Emotion |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL THE OSTRICH PROBLEM - 280515 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 25 Sep 2020 08:41 |
Last Modified: | 16 Sep 2022 00:19 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.jrp.2020.104020 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:165926 |