60 research outputs found
Lack of Bump in Public Events When Recent Events Prevail
No full textOner, Sezin/0000-0001-8124-3554; Gulgoz, Sami/0000-0002-1262-2347Reminiscence bump refers to the increased recall of events from adolescence and early adulthood. It is a robust phenomenon for personal events, while the evidence for the bump has been inconsistent for public events. The present study addressed lifespan distributions of public events in a nationally representative sample of adults (N = 1200) in Turkey. We demonstrated a robust recency effect in the temporal distribution of public event memories. When we examined the bump in the most frequently reported events, the recency effect persisted. The only exception was the bump for the military coup in 1980, a relatively more distant event among the most frequent events. Findings suggested that high-impact events in Turkey's recent past may overshadow the past events. Inline, we discuss the role of the context and age distribution of the sample to explain the inconsistency in the evidence for the reminiscence bump in public events.Kadir Has University Internal Research Fund; [2019-BAP-03]The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Current research was financially supported by the Kadir Has University Internal Research Fund through Grant 2019-BAP-03.Social Science Citation Index - Arts &- Humanities Citation Inde
An Online Diary Study Testing the Role of Functional and Dysfunctional Self-Licensing in Unhealthy Snacking
No full textOner, Sezin/0000-0001-8124-3554; Sezer, Berke/0000-0003-1839-3394In the present study, we aimed to investigate how two types of self-licensing (functional and dysfunctional selflicensing) are related to unhealthy snack consumption. Self-licensing refers to the act of using justifications before gratifications and has been associated with higher snack consumption. Previous research has found that while functional self-licensing decreases unhealthy snack consumption, dysfunctional self-licensing increases the number of calories taken from unhealthy snacks. Building upon existing evidence, we addressed functional and dysfunctional self-licensing to investigate how self-licensing behaviors are associated with daily variables (i.e., stress and sleep) and unhealthy snacking habits. Participants (N = 124) were given a battery of measures at the start of the week and asked to send their snack consumption every night for a week via an online questionnaire, along with daily stress and sleep items. The data were analyzed with Hierarchical Linear Modelling. Neither selflicensing measures nor unhealthy snacking habits predicted unhealthy snack consumption. Daily stress was associated with lower unhealthy snack consumption. However, the interaction between daily stress and functional self-licensing was significant, suggesting that on stressful days functional self-licensers consume even fewer unhealthy snacks compared to less stressful days. Functional and dysfunctional self-licensing are rather new constructs which is why examining their effects is important for further research. However, in contrast to the existing evidence, we failed to find an effect of both types of self-licensing on snack consumption, suggesting the effect depends on potential contextual or individual-specific factors. Future research using a dieting sample is warranted for a better understanding of how functional and dysfunctional self-licensing operate.Science Citation Index Expande
The Impact of Covid-19 Trauma on Healthcare Workers: Examining the Relationship Between Stress and Growth Through the Lens of Memory
No full textOner, Sezin/0000-0001-8124-3554; Caglar Kurtulmus, Emine Seyma/0000-0002-9089-1040; Bilgin, Ezgi/0000-0001-9477-7379The COVID-19 pandemic constituted tremendous traumatic stress among the frontline healthcare workers. In the present study, we investigated relationships of two types of rumination, namely brooding and reflection, with traumatic stress and post-traumatic growth and the mediating role of recollective experience in these relationships. A total of 88 healthcare workers (75% female, M-age = 54.91) actively providing service to COVID-19 patients reported two memories of events that impacted them the most at the first peak of the pandemic and rated their recollective experience (i.e., phenomenological characteristics of memories). We used structural equation modelling to test whether recollective experience mediated the link of brooding and reflection with post-trauma reactions of stress and growth. The findings showed that brooding and reflection were associated with higher levels of traumatic stress and post-traumatic growth. Importantly, recollective experience mediated the relationship of rumination with traumatic stress but this differed for the type of rumination. Higher brooding was associated with greater traumatic stress and that relationship was independent of how well the memories were recollected, while for reflection, high reflection was associated with stronger recollective experience, which predicted higher traumatic stress and post-traumatic growth. The present study shows the functional dimensions of reflective rumination and presents novel findings that demonstrates the discrete mnemonic mechanisms underlying the association between brooding, reflection, and post-trauma reactions.Turkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu [120K359]Turkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu, Grant/Award Number:120K35
Healthcare Workers' Memories in the Covid-19 Pandemic: the Role of Visual Perspective and Event Centrality in Subjective Temporal Distance
No full textWe investigated the factors associated with subjective temporal distance of pandemic-related events in a sample of healthcare workers. A total of 257 healthcare workers were asked to recall two COVID-19 pandemic-related events that impacted them the most at the beginning of the pandemic (April-May 2020), and rated event centrality, phenomenological characteristics, subjective temporal distance, and visual perspective (field vs. observer) for each reported event. Results showed a negative relationship between subjective temporal distance and event centrality only for memories remembered from the field perspective (field memories), but not those remembered from the observer perspective (observer memories). Furthermore, event centrality enhanced recollection of sensory and perceptual details, which, in turn, resulted in memories being felt temporally closer to people. However, only field memories, not observer memories, revealed this pattern, showing that recollective experience shaped by visual perspective mediates the relationship between event centrality and subjective temporal distance.Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey [1001-120K359]Sezin OEner was supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (Grant No: 1001-120K359).Social Science Citation Inde
Investigating How Unhealthy Snacking Habits Affect Self-Licensing With an Online Daily Diary Study
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Investigating How Unhealthy Snacking Habits Affect Self-Licensing With an Online Daily Diary Study
No full textMaster's Thesi
Investigating How Unhealthy Snacking Habits Affect Self-Licensing With an Online Daily Diary Study
No full textMaster's Thesi
An Online Diary Study of Functional and Dysfunctional Self-licensing: How Distinct Are They?
No full textAn Online Diary Study of Functional and Dysfunctional Self-licensing: How Distinct Are They?
No full textMnemonic Regulation of Sadness and Anger: the Role of Spontaneous Vs Instructed Recall
No full textMood-incongruency effects in autobiographical recall have been conceptualized as a function of the emotion regulation through which the content and the phenomenology of the autobiographical memories serve to repair negative moods. Arguing that negative mood automatically activates mnemonic emotion regulation, in the present study we examined how negative emotions guide the subsequent spontaneous and instructed recall and whether distinct phenomenological patterns are observed in mnemonic regulation of sadness and anger. After participants watched video clips for sadness, anger, or happiness, they reported first any event that comes to their mind (spontaneous recall), then an event that specifically makes them happy (instructed recall). We found the changes in the phenomenology of the reported events was different for sadness and anger groups. While more robust changes were observed for sadness earlier in the spontaneous recall with higher phenomenological ratings than the anger group, in the instructed recall the difference disappeared, suggesting for the relatively late-onset compensation in the anger group
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