Nostalgia is a sentimental longing for one's past. We examined the effect of a 6-week, weekly nostalgia intervention on well-being (positive and negative affect, life satisfaction, subjective ...vitality, and eudaimonic well-being) over time. After 3 weeks, participants who engaged in nostalgic reflection had higher well-being than those who engaged in ordinary reflection. After 6 weeks, and at a 1-month follow-up, the positive effect of nostalgic reflection was reserved for those who were high on dispositional nostalgia (i.e., well-suited to the nostalgia intervention). However, at these time points, nostalgic reflection was associated with lower well-being among those particularly low on dispositional nostalgia. Across time points, nostalgic reflection was beneficial to the degree that it fostered social connectedness, meaning in life, and self-continuity, pointing to mechanisms that drive nostalgia's positive influence on well-being. In summary, weekly nostalgic reflection has temporary well-being benefits for most (out to 3 weeks) and, beyond that, is a matter of fit-beneficial or adverse to those especially high or low on dispositional nostalgia, respectively.
Trait nostalgia Sedikides, Constantine; Wildschut, Tim
Personality and individual differences,
April 2024, 2024-04-00, Letnik:
221
Journal Article
Recenzirano
We define trait nostalgia as the proclivity to bring to mind, and reflect wistfully upon, fond and meaningful experiences from one's personal past. The affective structure of nostalgic experiences is ...blended, but predominantly positive. Their content is acutely social, and their trajectory is redemptive rather than contaminative. Further, nostalgic experiences are appraised as pleasant, entailing irretrievable loss, being unique and distant, and being approach-oriented, positive, and low arousal. Valid scales designed to assess trait nostalgia are highly correlated (showing convergent validity), and nostalgia emerges as a latent variable in relevant confirmatory factor analysis, while evincing moderate rank-order stability. Moreover, nostalgia is distinct from other past-oriented traits or trait-like modes of thinking about one's past (i.e., homesickness, life longing, rumination, counterfactual thinking, reminiscence, autobiographical memory). Lastly, nostalgia is associated with or conduces to psychological benefits such as viewing the past and future positively (bearing motivational consequences), feeling imbued with sociality and behaving prosocially, and enjoying psychological well-being, while it buffers against adversity (e.g., losses in meaning, sociality, and psychological well-being). Trait nostalgia is rich in emotional content, distinct, stable, and functional.
This thesis explores how different forms of nostalgia have been constructed by various forms of screen media in China since the 1990s. Textual analysis of media languages and structures and discourse ...analysis of the Chinese government’s economic-politics are used to examine the relationship between screen nostalgia, the influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), China’s neoliberalist capitalism, and China’s media internationalisation. In order to examine the complex relationship between socio-economic and political contexts and nostalgic screen cultures produced by various generations of producers and presented in different formats of screen media, this thesis will investigate diverse forms of screen media texts in film, Internet drama and TV documentary. The following screen media texts are chosen: five feature films, A Mongolian Tale (Xie Fei, 1995), Nuan (Huo Jianqi, 2003), Shower (Zhang Yang, 1999), 24 City (Jia Zhangke, 2008), and So Young (Zhao Wei, 2013); one Internet drama, With You (Liu Chang, 2016); and two television documentaries A Bite of China (Chen Xiaoqing, 2012) and Maritime Silk Road (Zhang Wei, 2016). This thesis identifies that a culture of nostalgia has emerged in China in the past three decades, and this is strongly manifested in different media forms and genres and across different generations. The nostalgic culture speaks to, or engages with, China’s postsocialist condition and social changes, including the urban-rural divide, urbanisation, commercialisation, and youth experience, as well as China’s domestic and international policies. Overall, through examining various forms of nostalgia constructed by different forms of screen media, this thesis argues that nostalgia culture has changed, from filmmakers’ intellectual and critical engagements with China’s postsocialist condition to its co-option by the Chinese government and screen media industry for political and commercial gains over the past few decades.
We provide a narrative review of the nascent literature on the psychological benefits of music-evoked nostalgia. Music is a prevalent and influential source of nostalgia. Music-evoked nostalgia ...confers approach-oriented psychological benefits in the social domain (by fostering social connectedness), self-oriented domain (by raising self-esteem, instilling a sense of youthfulness, elevating optimism, and enhancing inspiration), and existential domain (by strengthening meaning in life and augmenting self-continuity). Music-evoked nostalgia also confers psychological benefits indirectly. For example, it elevates optimisms by fostering sequentially social connectedness and self-esteem. Also, by fostering social connectedness, it enhances inspiration, strengthens meaning in life, and augments self-continuity. Furthermore, music-evoked nostalgia serves to buffer individuals against discomforting states, such as sadness. We conclude by discussing music-evoked nostalgia in people with dementia, contemplating the role of individual differences and context, considering the possibility that music-evoked nostalgia serves physiological functions, and asking whether familiarity with the music is necessary for the evocation of nostalgia and its ensuing benefits.
Objective
Nostalgia is a sentimental longing for one's past. We examined the hypotheses (rooted in attachment theory and research) that nostalgia prone individuals, by virtue of their greater ...attachment security, are more empathic and enact more prosocial behavior.
Method
In five studies, testing 1,923 participants (Nrange = 132–823, 52.42% women, Agerange = 8–90 years), we measured nostalgia proneness and affective empathy. Additionally, we measured cognitive empathy in Study 3, attachment security in Studies 4–5, and prosocial behavior in Study 5.
Results
Nostalgia proneness was positively related to affective empathy among younger and older adults (Studies 1, 3–5) and among children (Study 2). This association was stronger for affective empathy than cognitive empathy (Study 3). Also, attachment security mediated the relation between nostalgia proneness and affective empathy (Studies 4–5). Finally, nostalgia prone individuals were more likely to engage in prosocial behavior, and this relation was serially mediated by attachment security and affective empathy (Study 5).
Conclusion
The findings establish the empathic and prosocial character of nostalgia prone individuals, and clarify their personality profile.
Editorial Miguel Urra Canales
Campos en Ciencias Sociales,
01/2021, Letnik:
9, Številka:
2
Journal Article
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Odprti dostop
Este número todavía se ha construido con una gran nostalgia por la ausencia del profesor Idrobo, editor invitado y que el covid-19 nos arrebató. Estas páginas son un homenaje a su memoria y a su ...compromiso con la revista.
Populist movements typically endorse a pessimistic view that blames the “elites” for societal problems. Why is this populist worldview so appealing to many citizens? We propose that populism is ...associated with nostalgia: A bittersweet feeling defined as a sentimental longing for a better past. We tested this idea in three preregistered studies. Study 1 revealed that both personal and collective nostalgia (i.e., referring to either personal memories or a shared national history) were associated with populist attitudes. Moreover, the nostalgia measures mediated a link between collective angst and populist attitudes. Studies 2 and 3, then, were experiments designed to investigate the causal order between nostalgia and populist attitudes. In Study 2, a manipulation of nostalgia could not establish a causal effect on populist attitudes; however, a measure of nostalgia was again correlated to populist attitudes. In Study 3, we tested the reverse causal order by exposing participants to either a populist or pluralist speech. Results revealed that exposure to the populist speech increased both personal and collective nostalgia. In all studies, these effects emerged independent of political orientation. Apparently, feelings of nostalgia are closely associated with populist attitudes and may help explain why citizens find a populist worldview appealing.
100 years of Disney Haswell, Helen; Davis, Amy M.
Alphaville,
7/2024
27
Journal Article
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Odprti dostop
In 2023, a major Hollywood film company celebrated its 100th birthday, and almost no one blinked an eye. That studio was Warner Brothers, which was founded on 4 April 1923 by brothers Harry, Albert, ...Sam, and Jack Warner. But on 16 October 2023, another major Hollywood film company—the Walt Disney Company, founded on 16 October 1923 by brothers Walt and Roy Disney—celebrated its 100th birthday with much more fanfare. In early 2023, it began a year-long celebration of its centenary. The first thing it did was launch an entire product line—Disney Eras—in which Disney’s history was celebrated, decade by decade, with merchandise that either reproduced or evoked important places, moments, and characters of the studio’s history.
The article is devoted to the analysis of nostalgia in the life of F.I. Chaliapin, which determined the novelty of the work. With the help of biographical and analytical research methods based on ...autobiographical prose and letters of Fyodor Ivanovich, memories of his loved ones, it was revealed that Kazan, as the city of birth and youth, played the role of a significant symbol for the singer. Fyodor Ivanovich was nostalgic for Kazan, especially after emigration. The method of historical modeling revealed ambivalent features of Chaliapin's nostalgia, which had ambiguous consequences for him. In the life and work of the singer, restoring nostalgia associated with creativity and reflective nostalgia intersected, in the context of which the irrevocability of the past and the finiteness of human existence were realized. At the same time, in the last years of the artist's life (due to the spatial and temporal gap with Russia and the lack of energy supply), reflective nostalgia with its pessimistic moods took dominant positions. Fyodor Ivanovich's tragic worldview began to prevail, which contributed to his sudden death. Nostalgia, as an eternal return to the pages of Kazan life in memory, testified to the strength of the artist's character, who was able to relive not only positive but also negative experiences and use them in the situationality of life and creativity. The results of the conducted research contribute to the further study of nostalgia in the life of creative personalities, which will allow us to identify its features in each specific case.
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