The impact of negative moods on self-enhancing cognitions: the role of reflective versus ruminative mood orientations |
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Authors: | McFarland Cathy Beuhler Roger von Rüti Rebecca Nguyen Lewis Alvaro Celeste |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. |
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Abstract: | This research program examined how self-focused attention to feelings affects the relation between mood negativity and self-enhancing thought. The primary hypothesis was that the particular manner in which people focus on their moods (reflective vs. ruminative) determines whether they reveal positive (i.e., mood-incongruent) or negative (i.e., mood-congruent) self-relevant thoughts in response to negative moods. Studies 1-4 revealed that social comparisons, temporal comparisons, and other self-enhancing cognitions (i.e., attributions, disidentification, relationship evaluations) are more likely to be mood incongruent when people adopt a reflective orientation to their negative feelings and more likely to be mood congruent when they adopt a ruminative orientation. Additionally, moods and mood orientations affected self-enhancing thoughts through the mediating influence of mood regulation goals and intentions (Studies 5 and 6). |
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