Impact Of Authentic Pride And Hubristic Pride On Self-control

Self-conscious emotions are kinds of advanced emotions which involve self-consciousness with the forces of enhancing or weakening.They will have a profound influence on the individual's health and happiness.Pride,as one of self-conscious emotions,which is the emotional experience attributed to one's own ability or effort when the individual achieves an achievement or a breakthrough.As a type of emotion with a positive component in the self-conscious emotions,it has been paid more and more attention.In early researches,researches have often focused only on the positive effects of pride and haven't distinguished its two dimensions.However,with further of researches,it is proved that the pride has two dimensions: Authentic pride and Hubristic pride.Authentic pride is the emotional experience caused by the internal,unstable,and controllable attribution of an event that evokes feelings of pride,and hubristic pride is the internal,stable,and uncontrollable event that evokes emotions of pride.Two different emotional experiences play an extremely important role in the development of individual behavior.Self-control ability is an important indicator of individual behavior development.Higher self-control ability indicates that individuals have higher resilience and better behavior,and less psychological problems.A large number of studies have confirmed that positive emotions and negative emotions have different effects on self-control.Some studies have shown that positive emotions have a positive effect on self-control,but some studies have reached the opposite conclusion,indicating that basic emotions may have less predictive power for self-control.There is relatively little research on behaviors involving more advanced emotions.The existing research findings on the effects of pride on behaviors also show inconsistent conclusions.The reason may be that two different dimensions of pride are not distinguished.Therefore,in this study,we investigate the influence of self-control on two different dimensions of pride.Based on the questioning of the self-depletion experimental paradigm on self-control,we choose three different experimental paradigms in the experiments to explore the influence of three characteristics of self-control.Experiment I: Two sets of scenarios Imagine tasks have been used to induce two kinds of pride,and use delayed discount tasks to test the responses to the choices,mainly examine the effects of different dimensions of pride on the level of choice in self-control;Experiment 2: the same method which induces participants' different feelings of pride as experiment 1 is used,and the delay satisfaction task paradigm is applied to measure the time cost,mainly examine the effects of different dimensions of pride on the self-control cost level.Experiment 3: in order to induce two kinds of feeling of pride,the same method just in the first experiment is used to induce two kinds of feeling of pride and mirror-tracking experimental paradigms is used to measure persistence,mainly examine the influence of different dimensions of pride on the level of self-control efforts.The experimental results are as following:(1)the scenario imagination tasks are used to induce the participants' authentic pride and hubristic pride,and finding show that the experimental inducement is effective,that is,the scores of the authentic pride of participants in the authentic pride group have significant differences between pretest and posttest;the scores of the hubristic pride of participants in the hubristic pride group have significant differences between pretest and posttest;(2)Participants in the authentic pride group have a significantly higher score than those who in the hubristic pride group in the deferred discounts task whether the times of delay are a week,a month or a six-month period.(3)The score of the delayed satisfaction in the authentic proud group was significantly higher than that of the hubristic pride.(4)The scores of the time that the authentic pride group participants insist on the mirror tracking task are significantly higher than those of the hubristic pride.Conclusion: Authentic pride has a positive effect on the individual's self-control ability,and the hubristic pride is not conducive to the development of individual's self-control ability.