I feel good, therefore I am real: Testing the causal influence of mood on state authenticity

Lenton, Alison P.; Slabu, Letitia; Sedikides, Constantine; Power, Katherine

doi:10.1080/02699931.2013.778818

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“…Most investigations of state authenticity have taken place in the lab or relied on participants' retrospective reports, thus rendering it possible that the findings were not generalizable to real‐life situations (Kahneman et al, ). Notably, the present results largely confirmed those observed previously: State authenticity is correlated with positive mood (Lenton, Slabu et al, ; Turner & Billings, ), greater self‐esteem (Slabu et al, ), lower anxiety, and feeling ideal (Lenton, Bruder, et al, ).…”

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confidence: 92%

“…by upbeat music) felt more authentic than participants put in a negative mood (e.g. by lugubrious music; Lenton, Slabu, et al, ). And as mentioned earlier, prior research in which participants were asked to recall a time when they felt either authentic or inauthentic indicated that experiences of authenticity are more closely associated with a sense of calm and approach‐related emotion clusters (e.g.…”

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State Authenticity in Everyday Life

2016

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We examined the components and situational correlates of state authenticity to clarify the construct's meaning and improve understanding of authenticity's attainment. In Study 1, we used the day reconstruction method (participants assessed real‐life episodes from ‘yesterday’) and in Study 2 a smartphone app (participants assessed real‐life moments taking place ‘just now’) to obtain situation‐level ratings of participants' sense of living authentically, self‐alienation, acceptance of external influence, mood, anxiety, energy, ideal‐self overlap, self‐consciousness, self‐esteem, flow, needs satisfaction, and motivation to be ‘real’. Both studies demonstrated that state authentic living does not require rejecting external influence and, further, accepting external influence is not necessarily associated with state self‐alienation. In fact, situational acceptance of external influence was more often related to an increased, rather than decreased, sense of authenticity. Both studies also found state authentic living to be associated with greater, and state self‐alienation with lesser: positive mood, energy, relaxation, ideal‐self overlap, self‐esteem, flow, and motivation for realness. Study 2 further revealed that situations prioritizing satisfaction of meaning/purpose in life were associated with increased authentic living and situations prioritizing pleasure/interest satisfaction were associated with decreased self‐alienation. State authenticity is best characterized by two related yet independent components: authentic living and (absence of) self‐alienation. Copyright © 2015 European Association of Personality Psychology

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State Authenticity in Everyday Life

2016

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“…Yet, one authenticity class (everyday) was associated with as much negative affect as one inauthenticity class (deflated). Thus, contrary to the implications of prior findings, the relation between negative affect and felt authenticity is not perfectly linear (Heppner et al, 2008; Lenton et al, 2013b). …”

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“…This definition stems from a dispositional view of authenticity, which has been the predominant narrative in the empirical literature to date. More recently, however, researchers have viewed authenticity through a situational or “state” lens (Heppner et al, 2008; Fleeson and Wilt, 2010; Gino et al, 2010; Lenton et al, 2013a,b). We concur with Fridhandler (1986) that “if a person is in a state he or she must be able to feel it” (p. 170).…”

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Identifying differences in the experience of (in)authenticity: a latent class analysis approach

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Generally, psychologists consider state authenticity – that is, the subjective sense of being one’s true self – to be a unitary and unidimensional construct, such that (a) the phenomenological experience of authenticity is thought to be similar no matter its trigger, and (b) inauthenticity is thought to be simply the opposing pole (on the same underlying construct) of authenticity. Using latent class analysis, we put this conceptualization to a test. In order to avoid over-reliance on a Western conceptualization of authenticity, we used a cross-cultural sample (N = 543), comprising participants from Western, South-Asian, East-Asian, and South-East Asian cultures. Participants provided either a narrative in which the described when they felt most like being themselves or one in which they described when they felt least like being themselves. The analysis identified six distinct classes of experiences: two authenticity classes (“everyday” and “extraordinary”), three inauthenticity classes (“self-conscious,” “deflated,” and “extraordinary”), and a class representing convergence between authenticity and inauthenticity. The classes were phenomenologically distinct, especially with respect to negative affect, private and public self-consciousness, and self-esteem. Furthermore, relatively more interdependent cultures were less likely to report experiences of extraordinary (in)authenticity than relatively more independent cultures. Understanding the many facets of (in)authenticity may enable researchers to connect different findings and explain why the attainment of authenticity can be difficult.

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“…This method provides an OLS-regression approach, using bootstrapping, for estimating the indirect effect, rather than judging this effect based on a series of null-hypothesis testing to infer full or partial mediation (for an example, see Lenton, Slabu, Sedikides and Power, 2013). In our study, this estimate should be interpreted as the indirect effect of being in a certain reward specificity condition on job pursuit intention, via personreward fit, relative to the mean.…”

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