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Self‐awareness and aversive experience in everyday life
Author(s) -
Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly,
Figurski Thomas J.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1982.tb00742.x
Subject(s) - voluntariness , psychology , feeling , self awareness , affect (linguistics) , social psychology , self , developmental psychology , volition (linguistics) , political science , law , linguistics , philosophy , communication
One hundred and seven adults reported their activities, thoughts, and feelings at randomly designated intervals over seven days, resulting in more than 4,800 self‐reports. The present investigation focused on the relation of self‐awareness and voluntariness to the quality of experience. Results indicated that perceived voluntariness is associated with positive experience, while self‐awareness is associated with lower affect, activation, and personal involvement, but only when the activity is felt to be voluntary. This conditional association between self‐awareness and aversive experience is discussed as it relates to current theory on self‐awareness and recent models of human motivation.