Temporal self-appraisal in a Chinese context: Distancing autobiographical memory following self-uncertainty salience

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Qing Yang
Oscar Ybarra
Kees van den Bos
Yufang Zhao
Lili Guan
Xiting Huang
Cite this article:  Yang, Q., Ybarra, O., van den Bos, K., Zhao, Y., Guan, L., & Huang, X. (2020). Temporal self-appraisal in a Chinese context: Distancing autobiographical memory following self-uncertainty salience. Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal, 48(2), e8632.


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On the premise that individuals are inclined to self-enhance, in temporal self-appraisal (TSA) theory it is suggested that people can motivationally reconstruct subjective distances from their past self to serve that goal. However, given the mixed evidence found in an East Asian cultural context (i.e., Japan), it is important to test the cultural applicability of TSA in a different East Asian culture. Thus we tested the TSA of a Chinese sample, focusing on past-self distance reconstruction. The results supported the prediction suggested in TSA theory, in that participants tended to feel farther away from negative (vs. positive) past experiences. Further, this effect was greater when people were primed with a self-threat (i.e., self-uncertainty salience). These patterns were found independently of whether the past experience was recent (3 months ago) or in the distant past (3 years ago). Implications for cross-cultural applicability of TSA theory are discussed.

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