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Devastated or Feeling Fine? The Moderating Role of Self-aspect Importance on the Emotional Reaction to a Valenced Event

Two people can have very different emotional reactions to the same event. In this study, we make the hypothesis that the relationship between a self-relevant event and feelings of depression is moderated by the importance given to the congruent self-aspect (i.e., the self-aspect related to the event). We develop a measure of self-aspect importance and test its amplifying moderating role in an experimental study. Results show that, whereas the mere importance of the congruent self-aspect has a marginal moderating effect, indicators of its relative importance (i.e., compared with other self-aspects) strongly moderate the emotional reaction to the event. These findings are discussed in the light of broader research on the self.