Christmann, Alexandra (2023) The Influence of Nostalgia and Anemoia on Mood and the Moderating Role of Loneliness. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Nostalgia’s focus on past autobiographical memories can have significant influences on mood - mainly positive in nature. The flipside of nostalgia could be the phenomenon of feeling nostalgic about things that have not in fact happened, newly introducing the concept of “anemoia” into the research field. With nostalgia as guiding principle, we hypothesised anemoia to exert the same positive influence on mood. Further, we investigated the potential moderating influence of high or low loneliness in this process. We measured mood after a nostalgia, anemoia or control condition of an Event Reflection Task in 85 subjects who indicated their level of loneliness beforehand. Although not significant, we found that both nostalgia and anemoia indeed led to subjective mood increases, supporting our first hypothesis. Also, after nostalgia or anemoia induction, participants low in loneliness experienced mood increases as well, whereas people high in loneliness did not experience alterations in mood, contrary to what we initially predicted. These findings were, again, not significant. It would be worth looking into the potential effects of anemoia, as our study hints at the possibility that it can have similar positive effects on people’s moods as nostalgia. Especially for people experiencing little loneliness, the effects might be notably better than for people experiencing high loneliness. However, without the implementation of larger studies, results remain ambiguous.
| 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 14:03 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Jul 2023 14:03 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2158 |
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