From nostalgia, through communion, to psychological benefits: The moderating role of narcissism
From nostalgia, through communion, to psychological benefits: The moderating role of narcissism
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.
agency, communion, narcissism, nostalgia, psychological benefits, Nostalgia
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Bialobrzeska, Olga
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Sedikides, Constantine
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Wildschut, Tim
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21 June 2023
Bialobrzeska, Olga
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Sedikides, Constantine
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Wildschut, Tim
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Bialobrzeska, Olga, Sedikides, Constantine and Wildschut, Tim
(2023)
From nostalgia, through communion, to psychological benefits: The moderating role of narcissism.
Self and Identity, 22 (6), .
(doi:10.1080/15298868.2023.2228544).
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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Published date: 21 June 2023
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agency, communion, narcissism, nostalgia, psychological benefits, Nostalgia
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