Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.
Emotion. 2022 Dec;22(8):1995-1999. doi: 10.1037/emo0001017. Epub 2021 Oct 28.
Authenticity can be defined as congruence between one's outer behavior and one's feelings or sense of self. People can experience moments of lower congruence in their day-to-day lives. refers to fluctuations over time in momentary congruence. We propose that authenticity variability is linked to lower emotional well-being (i.e., more negative affect and less positive affect) and greater need for emotion regulation. College students ( = 174) participated in an experience sampling study (4×/day for 7 days) assessing state-level authenticity, affect, and emotion regulation during social interactions. State authenticity demonstrated greater within-person than between-person variability, underscoring the importance of considering how experiences of authenticity vary across contexts rather than focusing on individual differences in authenticity. At the within-person level, heightened state authenticity was associated with lower negative affect, higher positive affect, and lower emotion regulation efforts. In contrast, authenticity variability predicted greater negative affect, lower positive affect, and greater effort to regulate emotions, as expected. The variability effects became nonsignificant, however, when controlling for mean state authenticity. Overall, these findings suggest authenticity is highly variable over time and linked to key affective processes in daily life. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
真实性可以被定义为一个人的外在行为与自身感受或自我意识之间的一致性。人们在日常生活中可能会经历到低一致性的时刻。指的是瞬间一致性随时间的波动。我们提出，真实性的可变性与较低的情绪幸福感（即更多的负面情绪和更少的正面情绪）和更强的情绪调节需求有关。大学生（n=174）参与了一项体验抽样研究（每天 4 次，持续 7 天），在社交互动中评估状态层面的真实性、情绪和情绪调节。状态真实性表现出更大的个体内变异性，而不是个体间变异性，这强调了考虑真实性体验如何在不同情境下变化的重要性，而不是关注真实性的个体差异。在个体内水平上，较高的状态真实性与较低的负面情绪、较高的正面情绪和较低的情绪调节努力相关。相比之下，如预期的那样，真实性的可变性预测了更大的负面情绪、更低的正面情绪和更大的情绪调节努力。然而，当控制了平均状态真实性时，可变性效应变得不显著。总的来说，这些发现表明真实性在时间上高度可变，并与日常生活中的关键情感过程有关。
