Levenga, Wouter (2023) The Moderating Role of Resilience in the Effect of Anemoia on Mood. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
This paper examines the impact of experiencing anemoia, a form of nostalgia for times and places one has never known, on mood and the moderating role of resilience. While the effect of nostalgia on mood has been extensively studied, the effect that anemoia has on mood has not been empirically studied before. We argue in this paper that anemoia will have a positive or negative effect on mood, depending on one’s level of resilience. Our study consisted of 85 participants who had to fill out an online survey using Qualtrics, where they were randomly assigned to one out of three conditions: control, nostalgia and anemoia. We used an altered version of the Event Reflection Task to evoke both nostalgia and anemoia. The findings did not indicate the moderating effect of resilience that we thought it would have. We did find a main effect of nostalgia on mood, but this was not significant. The lack of significance throughout the results could be attributed to the low statistical power of the study. It’s hard to draw definitive conclusions on the basis of our findings, seeing as though there were no significant effects. However, what we can conclude is the fact that nostalgia and specifically anemoia are complex emotions that warrant further investigation.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Meerholz, E.W. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Jul 2023 08:44 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Jul 2023 08:44 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2134 |
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