Nostalgia counteracts the negative relation between threat appraisals andintrinsic motivation in an educational context
Authors:
- Olga Białobrzeska,
- Andrew J. Elliot,
- Tim Wildschut,
- Constantine Sedikides
Abstract
We examined the coping potential of nostalgia in an educational setting. In particular, we investigated whether nostalgia can protect students from the pernicious link between threat appraisal and low intrinsic motivation. Undergraduate students (N = 382) reported threat and challenge appraisals in regards to a class they were taking, their nostalgia, as well as their intrinsic motivation. Threat appraisals predicted reduced intrinsic motivation, but were also prognostic of increased nostalgia. Nostalgia, in turn, was associated with increased intrinsic motivation. Thus, the negative direct association of threat appraisals with intrinsic motivation was counteracted by a positive indirect association via increased nostalgia—a statistical suppression pattern. Nostalgia appears to have implications for achievement contexts
- Record ID
- SWPSa9314cf399844a6b8d5d2685d4d9dc70
- Author
- Journal series
- Learning and Individual Differences, ISSN 1041-6080
- Issue year
- 2019
- Vol
- 69
- Pages
- 219-224
- Publication size in sheets
- 0.50
- Keywords in English
- Cognitive appraisal, Threat, Challenge, Nostalgia, Intrinsic motivation
- ASJC Classification
- ; ;
- DOI
- DOI:10.1016/j.lindif.2018.04.011 opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S1041608018300700?token=3F9DBDF179555CE138D2CE8F63D38812D645B5148DD1FC56EA8D548559420FBA374A2DAAAAC06A0178463F9FD765E808 opening in a new tab
- Language
- (en) English
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- File: 1
- Nostalgia counteracts the negative relation between threat appraisals andintrinsic motivation in an educational context.pdf
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- Additional file
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- File: 1
- Oświadczenie_O.Białobrzeska_Nostalgia.pdf
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- Score (nominal)
- 100
- Score source
- journalList
- Publication indicators
- : 2016 = 1.335; : 2017 = 1.420 (2) - 2017=2.262 (5); = 7
- Citation count
- 8
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- http://bw.swps.edu.pl/info/article/SWPSa9314cf399844a6b8d5d2685d4d9dc70/
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