Trait anxiety as a moderator for the accuracy of affective forecasting and recall

& (2019). Trait anxiety as a moderator for the accuracy of affective forecasting and recall. Korean Journal of Psychology: General, 38(3), 401-417, https://doi.org/10.22257/kjp.2019.09.38.3.401

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Abstract

Anticipating the affective consequences of their decisions are important for people's behaviors, yet the accuracy of affective forecasting and affective recall tend to be not great. The present study focused on the impact of trait anxiety as a source of individual differences on the biases of affective forecasting and recall. Two weeks before the midterm exam, 106 college students were asked to predict positive and negative feelings that they anticipated to experience during the midterm exams. The trait anxiety and depression were also measured during the Time 1. On the midterm exam day, the participants reported the affects they were experiencing (Time 2). Two weeks after the exam (Time 3), the participants were asked to recall the affects they reported during the Time 1. Finally, two weeks after the Time 3, the participants were requested to recall the affects they reported during the Time 2 (Time 4). Results indicated that the participants showed the impact bias in the affective forecasting and recall of affective forecasting, only in regard to positive affects. On the other hand, trait anxiety was related to the impact biases in both positive and negative affects. This tendency was generally found even the impact of depression was statistically controlled. The implications of present results to the nature of affective forecasting and the psychotherapy for anxiety were discussed.

keywords: affective forecasting, affective recall, anxiety, depression, 정서예측, 정서 회상, 불안, 우울

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Trait anxiety as a moderator for the accuracy of affective forecasting and recall

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Korean Journal of Psychology: General