Temporal self-appraisal theory and attributional focus

Haddock, Geoffrey ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5293-2772 2004. Temporal self-appraisal theory and attributional focus. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 40 (6) , pp. 787-794. 10.1016/j.jesp.2004.04.004

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Abstract

Temporal self-appraisal theory (Ross & Wilson, 2002; Wilson & Ross, 2001) states that individuals evaluate their past selves in a way that makes them feel good about their current self. The present studies tested the degree to which differences in attributional focus influence feelings of closeness to positive life events. In Study 1, participants recalled a recent positive life event before thinking about how either they personally or others were responsible for the event’s occurrence. As expected, participants felt temporally closer to the event when they had thought about internal attributions. In Study 2, after recalling a recent positive life event, participants recalled one (or six) reasons describing how they personally (or others) produced the event. The results revealed that participants used the content of retrieved attributions in deriving their temporal judgment. The implications of the findings for tenets of temporal self-appraisal theory are discussed.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0022-1031
Last Modified:	17 Oct 2022 09:28
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/3302

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