Approaching the true self: Promotion focus predicts the experience of authenticity

abstract

• 2018 Elsevier Inc. Research on subjective authenticity identifies several psychological antecedents that seem naturally tied to subjectively authentic experiences. Four studies (N = 525) tested the hypothesis that promotion focus (compared to prevention focus) represents another shared antecedent of subjective authenticity. Studies 1 and 2 examined correlations between regulatory focus and subjective authenticity in the context of goal-pursuit and interpersonal interactions. Studies 3 and 4 were within-subjects experiments designed to manipulate regulatory focus and examine the effects of promotion and prevention focus on subjective authenticity. Across all studies, we found that promotion focus (relative to prevention focus) was a robust predictor of subjective authenticity. Implications and future directions are discussed.

authors

• Hicks, Joshua
• Schlegel, Rebecca

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN PERSONALITY

altmetric score

• 0.5

author list (cited authors)

• Kim, J., Chen, K., Davis, W. E., Hicks, J. A., & Schlegel, R. J.

citation count

• 15

complete list of authors

• Kim, Jinhyung||Chen, Kaiyuan||Davis, William E||Hicks, Joshua A||Schlegel, Rebecca J

publication date

• January 2019

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Research in Personality  Journal

keywords

• Motivation
• Regulatory Focus
• Subjective Authenticity
• True Self

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.jrp.2018.12.001

start page

• 165

end page

• 176

volume

• 78

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2018.12.001