From nostalgia, through communion, to psychological benefits: the moderating role of narcissism
From nostalgia, through communion, to psychological benefits: the moderating role of narcissism
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BiaĆobrzeska, Olga
Wildschut, Tim
Sedikides, Constantine
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2023-06-21
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Self and Identity
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6
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22
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950-972
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1529-8868
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2024-06-18
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Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for oneâs 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 nostalgiaâs benefits. The findings also identified narcissism as a moderator of nostalgiaâs 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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nostalgia
communion
agency
psychological benefits
narcissism
communion
agency
psychological benefits
narcissism
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