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Journal Article
Shifting narrative perspective and construal level shape emotional response and enhance eudaimonic well-being
2025
Overview
Understanding how people process and reflect upon past negative experiences is critical for promoting eudaimonic well-being. This study examined how psychological distance and construal level during autobiographical memory retrieval jointly influence post-recall affect and eudaimonic well-being. Participants retrieved negative autobiographical events initially from a 1st-person perspective and subsequently, on a separate day, from a 3rd-person perspective, thereby increasing psychological distance. During each retrieval, participants elaborated either at a high construal level (reflecting on the event’s broader meaning and life implications) or a low construal level (focusing on contextual details, such as location). After each retrieval, participants evaluated mnemonic characteristics of the recalled events, post-recall affective responses, and current eudaimonic well-being. Baseline measures included depression symptoms, dispositional construal level, and initial eudaimonic well-being. Results showed that high-level construal, compared to low-level construal, enhanced subjective vitality and search for meaning in life, while reduced negative post-recall affect. Shifting from a 1st-person to a 3rd-person perspective decreased emotional intensity and further increased meaning-seeking. Notably, beneficial effects of high construal level on eudaimonic well-being were more pronounced when recalling from the 1st-person (vs. 3rd-person) perspective. These findings offer new insights into Construal Level Theory and offer practical implications for expressive writing and well-being intervention.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group,Nature Portfolio
Subject
/ Adult
/ Emotions
/ Female
/ Humanities and Social Sciences
/ Humans
/ Male
/ Memory
/ Positive and negative affect
/ Science
