Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Laboratoire Parisien de Psychologie Sociale, Université Paris Nanterre, Paris, France.
Cogn Emot. 2023 Aug-Sep;37(5):908-926. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2023.2217348. Epub 2023 May 30.
In the past years, psychologists have been increasingly interested in feelings of "being moved" (or "touched") and their impact on cognition and behaviour. However, to better understand their long-term impact, we need a validated measure of participants' disposition to feel "moved". In this paper, we introduce the Geneva Sentimentality Scale (GSS), a measure of participants' disposition to feel moved. After describing its construction (Study 1) and confirming its structure and internal coherence (Study 2), we compare it to two other measures of participants' disposition to feel moved: the Kama Muta Frequency scale (KAMF) and a single-item measure ("I often feel moved"). We show that all three measures reliably predict participants' response to moving stimuli (Study 2) and their feelings of being moved in the past week (Study 3) and next week (Study 5). Moreover, we show that the GSS and KAMF have good test-retest reliability (Studies 4 & 5). Overall, we conclude that all three measures provide experimenters with useful tools to investigate the role feelings of being moved play in our lives.
在过去的几年中，心理学家越来越关注“感动”（或“触动”）的感觉及其对认知和行为的影响。然而，为了更好地了解它们的长期影响，我们需要一个经过验证的衡量参与者感到“感动”倾向的方法。在本文中，我们介绍了日内瓦情感量表（GSS），这是一种衡量参与者感到感动倾向的方法。在描述了其构建（研究 1）并确认了其结构和内部一致性（研究 2）之后，我们将其与另外两种衡量参与者感到感动倾向的方法进行了比较：卡玛穆塔频率量表（KAMF）和单项衡量方法（“我经常感到感动”）。我们表明，所有这三种方法都可以可靠地预测参与者对感人刺激的反应（研究 2）以及他们在过去一周（研究 3）和下周（研究 5）的感动感。此外，我们表明 GSS 和 KAMF 具有良好的重测信度（研究 4 和研究 5）。总体而言，我们得出结论，所有这三种方法都为实验者提供了有用的工具，可以研究感动感在我们生活中的作用。
