Linking admiration and adoration to self-expansion: Different ways to enhance one's potential

How is admiration different from adoration? We provided one answer to this question by examining the pathways through which admiration and adoration linked to self-expansion in a questionnaire and an experimental (autobiographical recall of emotion episodes) study. Both emotions were associated with...

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Published in:Cognition and emotion 2015-02, Vol.29 (2), p.292-310
Main Authors: Schindler, Ines, Paech, Juliane, Löwenbrück, Fabian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Admiration
Adolescent
Adoration
Adult
Affiliation
Aged
Emotions
Emulation
Hope
Humans
Imitative Behavior
Interpersonal Relations
Longitudinal Studies
Love
Middle Aged
Self Concept
Self-expansion
Worship
Young Adult
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Summary:How is admiration different from adoration? We provided one answer to this question by examining the pathways through which admiration and adoration linked to self-expansion in a questionnaire and an experimental (autobiographical recall of emotion episodes) study. Both emotions were associated with increased potential efficacy to accomplish goals (i.e., self-expansion), but different action tendencies accounted for these links. While our emotion inductions did not successfully distinguish between admiration and adoration, we could statistically disentangle their effects through mediator models. In both studies, self-reported admiration linked to self-expansion through the tendency to emulate admired others. Adoration related to self-expansion through the tendency to affiliate with adored others. These findings were obtained after controlling for other emotions in response to the target person (awe, love, hope, benign envy) and mutuality of the relationship. Our findings also suggest that considering specific emotions (rather than undifferentiated positive affect) helps uncover different pathways to self-expansion.
ISSN:0269-9931
1464-0600
DOI:10.1080/02699931.2014.903230