The Function of Feeling Kama Muta in Face of Collective Threat

Abstract: Kama muta is a positive emotion that is commonly elicited against a backdrop of difficulties and reorients one’s values towards priorities in life. Hence, we expect kama muta to cause similar beneficial shifts in attitudes, when exposed to collective threat such as natural disasters. In these contexts, kama muta may help to build individuals’ resources for prosocial action, through mechanisms like reducing the perceived burden of their own personal problems. As such, the current research proposes that kama muta reduces negative attitudes towards one's personal problems (personal problem appraisals) and is simultaneously enhanced by exposure to collective threat. Across three studies on Japanese participants (N = 725), we found that participants' experiences of kama muta predicted alleviations in their personal problem appraisals, even after controlling for other positive emotions. However, kama muta was not enhanced by experimental manipulation of collective threat contexts, but wa.... https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/13457

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: The Function of Feeling Kama Muta in Face of Collective Threat ; volume:20 ; day:05 ; month:02 ; year:2025 ; Social psychological bulletin ; 20 (05.02.2025)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Koh, Alethea H. Q. ; Nakayama, Masataka ; Liew, Kongmeng ; Uchida, Yukiko

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• DOI: 10.32872/spb.13457
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2502150419343.172801897191
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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