Feeling good and authentic: Experienced authenticity in daily life is predicted by positive feelings and situation characteristics, not trait-state consistency

Cooper, Alysha; Sherman, Ryne A.; Rauthmann, John F.; Serfass, David G.; Brown, Nicolas A.

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2018.09.005

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“…(3) selected environments should entail higher congruence between traits and manifested state enactments (i.e., associations between persons' traits and states are moderated by their environment selection); (4) those environments should additionally serve to reinforce, or stabilize, the state enactments, thus leading to higher state-to-state consistency; and (5) persons may perhaps pick up on their "genuine" trait-state congruence in those environments and thus feel authentic (but see for counterevidence Cooper et al, 2018). These hypotheses can only be tested if we subscribe to a more transactional perspective as well as sample and model both person and environment variables at the same time.…”

Section: A Transactional Perspective On Traits and Personalitymentioning

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Capturing interactions, correlations, fits, and transactions: A Person-Environment Relations Model

Rauthmann

2021

The Handbook of Personality Dynamics and Processes

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Section: A Transactional Perspective On Traits and Personalitymentioning

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Capturing interactions, correlations, fits, and transactions: A Person-Environment Relations Model

Rauthmann

2021

The Handbook of Personality Dynamics and Processes

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“…For example, a significant interaction does not necessarily indicate a congruence effect, but an interaction that causes the direction of the relationship to change (e.g., Jacques-Hamilton et al, 2018) could indicate a congruence effect (compare Figures 2A and 2B). Similarly, a significant negative quadratic association does not necessarily indicate a congruence effect (e.g., Cooper et al, 2018), but a significant negative quadratic association with a peak near the trait level does (compare Figures 2C and 2D). Thus, interactions and quadratic associations may be indicative of congruence effects but only under certain conditions.…”

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“…Similar findings were also reported regarding authenticity. People generally felt more authentic when their behavior was more open, conscientious, extraverted, agreeable, and emotionally stable, regardless of whether this behavior was congruent or incongruent with their personality trait (Cooper et al, 2018;e.g., Fleeson & Wilt, 2010;Wilt et al, 2021).…”

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Be Yourself and Behave Appropriately: Exploring Associations Between Incongruent Personality States and Positive Affect, Tiredness, and Cognitive Performance

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Luhmann

2021

Collabra: Psychology

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Personality traits describe how people typically think, feel, and behave. Personality states describe how people think, feel, and behave in a given moment. In their daily lives, people often behave the way they typically do (they enact trait-congruent personality states), but occasionally behave differently from how they typically do (trait-incongruent personality states). Several theories propose that such incongruent personality states should be associated with undesirable outcomes such as less positive affect or more tiredness, but the current state of evidence is inconclusive and mostly based on one personality dimension: extraversion. In this study, we contribute to filling important gaps in the literature by examining congruence of personality dimensions other than extraversion, considering characteristics of the situation, and modeling congruence with state-of-the-art response surface analyses. We aimed to manipulate state honesty-humility and state agreeableness as well as perceived adversity and deception of the situation in a prisoner’s dilemma paradigm. The manipulations mostly had the intended effects but they also had additional unspecific effects on other personality states and situation characteristics. The study thus emphasized the difficulty of manipulating personality states, situation characteristics, and trait–state and state–situation congruence. In pre-registered analyses of variance, response surface analyses, and specification curve analyses, we then examined how trait–state congruence and state–situation congruence were associated with positive affect, tiredness, and performance in a numerical Stroop task. Neither trait–state congruence nor state–situation congruence were associated with positive affect, tiredness, or cognitive performance. However, in light of this study’s limitations, more studies that are carefully designed, carefully operationalized, and well-powered are needed to examine trait–state and state–situation congruence. Because experimental research can advance the understanding of personality dynamics substantially, future research should additionally further aim to develop valid and reliable manipulations of personality states and situation characteristics.

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“…However, people who were in a positive mood reported higher levels of state authenticity than those who were in a negative mood . Moreover, momentary positive experiences such as happiness and self-esteem were strongly related to experienced authenticity (Cooper et al, 2018). As positive affective states are speculated to be crucial for the access to one's core self and intrinsic goal strivings (Koole & Kuhl, 2003), frequent use of the strategy of enhancing positive affect might also be associated with authenticity.…”

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“…This was a correlational study, and it hinders researchers from delineating whether affect is linked to authenticity as an outcome or a predictor variable. However, both experimental attempts (Lenton, Slabu, Sedikides, & Power, 2013) and experience sampling evidence (Cooper, Sherman, Rauthmann, Serfass, & Brown, 2018) demonstrated that positive affect would yield an increase in the momentary experience of authenticity. Even though there are studies which address affect as a precursor of authenticity, the current study examined both positive and negative affect (indicators of emotional well-being) as an outcome of authenticity just like Kuyumcu and Kabasakaloğlu (2018) did.…”

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Understanding the Mental Health Implications of Emotion Regulation: A Journey Through Authenticity

Yücel¹

2020

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People utilize specific emotion regulation (ER) strategies to exert control over their emotions. Some of those strategies are beneficial for psychological well-being, whereas others are detrimental to it. Identifying the working mechanisms of ER can be helpful to better understand its mental health implications. Particular ER strategies which interfere with one's natural emotional responses might lead people to conclude that they are not performing their authentic selves. However, other ER strategies can be useful in keeping one's authenticity intact. Given its importance for psychological well-being as well, the current study examined authenticity as a mediatory mechanism in explaining the link between the habitual use of certain ER strategies and negative psychological symptoms. Participants were 391 university students (294 females) with a mean age of 21.5 (SD = 2.22). Reappraisal, suppression, and enhancing positive affect among ER strategies were included as predictor variables into the tested path model. Psychological ill-being was tested as the outcome variable, and it was computed on the basis of the participants' positive affect (reverse-coded), negative affect, depression, and stress levels. Trait authenticity was included as the mediator variable. The proposed model revealed a good fit to data, and the results suggested full support for the study predictions. Reappraisal negatively predicted psychological ill-being by leading to an increase in the authenticity levels. However, suppression intensified the negative psychological symptoms by lessening authenticity. Moreover, enhancing positive affect diminished psychological ill-being by fostering authenticity. Additionally, the mediating roles of specific authenticity dimensions were tested within the same model. Accordingly, 2 components of authenticity (i.e., self-awareness and autonomous behavior) mediated the relationship between ER and mental health. In the light of the present findings, it can be said that various ER strategies, which lead people to behave in accordance with their true selves, are protective in terms of psychological health. Further implications, limitations, and suggestions for future studies were discussed.

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Feeling good and authentic: Experienced authenticity in daily life is predicted by positive feelings and situation characteristics, not trait-state consistency

Cited by 37 publications

References 48 publications

Capturing interactions, correlations, fits, and transactions: A Person-Environment Relations Model

Capturing interactions, correlations, fits, and transactions: A Person-Environment Relations Model

Be Yourself and Behave Appropriately: Exploring Associations Between Incongruent Personality States and Positive Affect, Tiredness, and Cognitive Performance

Understanding the Mental Health Implications of Emotion Regulation: A Journey Through Authenticity

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