Journal title RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA
Author/s Elisa Zambetti, Igor Sotgiu
Online First 8/9/2024 Issue 2023/4
Language Italian Pages 24 P. 33-56 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/rip2023oa18311
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Joy and sadness occur fairly frequently in the lives of ordinary people. The present study investigates the similarities and differences between joyful and sad autobiographical memories. We recruited two groups of adult participants matched for age, gender, and education: subjects belonging to the first group (N = 95) were asked to write out a brief narrative of a joyful personal event; subjects belonging to the second group (N = 90) were asked to write out a brief narrative of a sad personal event. All the participants also completed questionnaires assessing the memory characteristics of recalled events, event centrality, and social sharing of emotion. Results showed that narratives of sad events were significantly lengthier than narratives of joyful events. However, autobiographical memories of joyful and sad events were substantially similar with respect to a number of variables, including narrative coherence, phenomenological characteristics (e.g., vividness, quality, emotional intensity), and rate of emotional social sharing. Taken together, results suggest that, although joy and sadness are hedonically opposite emotions, they have a very similar impact on autobiographical memory.
Keywords: Condivisione sociale;Emozioni;Gioia; Memoria autobiografica;Tristezza
Elisa Zambetti, Igor Sotgiu, Gioia e tristezza a confronto: uno studio sulla memoria autobiografica emozionale in "RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA" 4/2023, pp 33-56, DOI: 10.3280/rip2023oa18311