Nostalgia Instruction Enhances the Subjective Well-Being of Undergraduates

DOI

10.2991/lemcs-14.2014.11How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Nostalgia; Positive Emotion; Life Satisfaction; Subjective Well-being; Undergraduate Students

Abstract

Nostalgia is recognized as an emotional experience that enables the integration of the past with the present. In this study, 396 undergraduate students were assigned randomly to either a nostalgia instruction group or a control group (in which they recall ordinary things). The life satisfaction and subjective well-being of the participants were measured in the experiment. The results indicated that the participants in the nostalgia group produced a larger number of positive words and fewer neutral and negative words compared with the participants in the control group. Thus, nostalgic instruction increased their life satisfaction and well-being. These findings suggested that nostalgic instruction could be an effective psychological resource for undergraduates, and that nostalgia results in a combination of positive, neutral, and negative effects.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiaoli Tao
AU  - Hongge Liang
AU  - Huimin Zeng
PY  - 2014/05
DA  - 2014/05
TI  - Nostalgia Instruction Enhances the Subjective Well-Being of Undergraduates
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Logistics, Engineering, Management and Computer Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 43
EP  - 46
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/lemcs-14.2014.11
DO  - 10.2991/lemcs-14.2014.11
ID  - Tao2014/05
ER  -