Aday Audrey, Guo Yingchi, Mehta Smriti, Chen Serena, Hall William, Götz Friedrich M, Sedikides Constantine, Schmader Toni
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2025 Aug;51(8):1472-1489. doi: 10.1177/01461672231223597. Epub 2024 Jan 28.
The SAFE model asserts that state authenticity stems from three types of fit to the environment. Across two studies of university students, we validated instruments measuring self-concept, goal, and social fit as unique predictors of state authenticity. In Study 1 ( 969), relationships between fit and state authenticity were robust to controlling for conceptually similar and distinct variables. Using experience sampling methodology, Study 2 ( = 269) provided evidence that fit and authenticity co-vary at the state (i.e., within-person) level, controlling for between-person effects. Momentary variation in each fit type predicted greater state authenticity, willingness to return to the situation, and state attachment to one's university. Each fit type was also predicted by distinct contextual features (e.g., location, activity, company). Supporting a theorized link to cognitive fluency, situations eliciting self-concept fit elicited higher working memory capacity and lower emotional burnout. We discuss the implications of fit in educational contexts.
SAFE模型认为，状态真实性源于三种与环境的契合类型。在两项针对大学生的研究中，我们验证了测量自我概念、目标和社会契合度的工具，这些工具可作为状态真实性的独特预测指标。在研究1（n = 969）中，契合度与状态真实性之间的关系在控制了概念上相似和不同的变量后依然稳健。使用经验取样法，研究2（n = 269）提供了证据，表明在控制了个体间效应后，契合度和真实性在状态（即个体内部）层面上共同变化。每种契合类型的瞬间变化预示着更高的状态真实性、回到该情境的意愿以及对所在大学的状态依恋。每种契合类型还由不同的情境特征（如地点、活动、同伴）所预测。支持与认知流畅性的理论联系，引发自我概念契合的情境会带来更高的工作记忆容量和更低的情绪倦怠。我们讨论了契合度在教育背景中的意义。
