Individual differences in self-discrepancies and emotional experience: Do distinct discrepancies predict distinct emotions?
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Ann Phillips (Creator)
- Paul Silvia, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Self-Discrepancy Theory (SDT) proposes that ideal-self discrepancies predict dejection/depression and ought-self discrepancies predict agitation/anxiety, but individual differences research has rarely found clear support for this pattern. After considering methodological and statistical reasons for these mixed findings, the present research tested SDT’s predictions using a multivariate structural equation model with latent predictors and outcomes (n = 245 college students). SDT was broadly but incompletely supported: ought discrepancies uniquely predicted anxious affect, but both ideal and ought discrepancies predicted depressed affect.
Individual differences in self-discrepancies and emotional experience: Do distinct discrepancies predict distinct emotions?
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- Publication
- Language: English
- Date: 2010
- Keywords
- self-discrepancy theory, emotion, self-theories, self-regulation, structural equation modeling, personality, psychology