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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 18, No. 5, 580-584 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167292185008
© 1992 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Attentional Effects on Mood are Moderated by Chronic Self-Conception Valence

Constantine Sedikides

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Positive and negative self-conception subjects rated their mood under either self-focused attention or other-focused attention conditions. Self-focused attention was partially induced by instructing subjects to write a story about themselves, whereas other-focused attention was partially elicited by instructing subjects to write a story about an acquaintance. Attentional effects on mood were moderated by the valence of subjects' chronic self-conceptions. Under self-focused attention conditions, positive self-conception subjects reported feeling happier than negative self-conception subjects. However, under other-focused attention conditions, positive and negative self-conception subjects did not differ in their reported mood. Supplementary analyses ruled out the possibility that the relation obtained between self-conception valence and mood was mediated by the valence of the stories that subjects wrote.


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