Williams Lisa A, DeSteno David
Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2008 Jun;94(6):1007-17. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.94.6.1007.
Perseverance toward goals that carry short-term costs is an important component of adaptive functioning. The present experiments examine the role that the emotion pride may play in mediating such perseverance. Across 2 studies, pride led to greater perseverance on an effortful and hedonically negative task believed to be related to the initial source of pride. In addition, the causal efficacy of pride was further demonstrated through dissociating its effects from related alternative mechanisms. Study 1 differentiated the effects of pride from self-efficacy. Study 2 differentiated the effects of pride from general positive affect. Taken together, these findings provide support for the proposed motivational function of pride in which this emotion serves as an incentive to persevere on a task despite initial costs.
对那些需要付出短期代价的目标坚持不懈是适应性功能的一个重要组成部分。本实验研究了自豪情绪在介导这种坚持不懈中可能发挥的作用。在两项研究中，自豪情绪导致在一项被认为与最初自豪来源相关的、费力且享乐性负面的任务上表现出更大的坚持不懈。此外，通过将自豪的影响与相关替代机制区分开来，进一步证明了自豪情绪的因果效力。研究1区分了自豪与自我效能感的影响。研究2区分了自豪与一般积极情绪的影响。综上所述，这些发现为所提出的自豪的动机功能提供了支持，即这种情绪作为一种激励因素，促使人们在任务中不顾最初的代价而坚持不懈。
