@article{9a9411c08e5644bba28277e7bfe7adcf,
title = "No Self Without Salience: Affective and Self-relevance Ratings of 552 Emotionally Valenced and Neutral Dutch Words",
abstract = "It is unknown how self-relevance is dependent on emotional salience. Emotional salience encompasses an individual's degree of attraction or aversion to emotionally-valenced information. The current study investigated the interconnection between self and salience through the evaluation of emotional valence and self-relevance. 56 native Dutch participants completed a questionnaire assessing valence, intensity, and self-relevance of 552 Dutch nouns and verbs. One-way repeated-measures ANCOVA investigated the relationship between valence and self, age and gender. Repeated-measures ANCOVA also tested the relationship between valence and self with intensity ratings and effects of gender and age. Results showed a significant main effect of valence for self-relevant words. Intensity analyses showed a main effect of valence but not of self-relevance. There were no significant effects of gender and age. The most important finding presents that self-relevance is dependent on valence. These findings concerning the relationship between self and salience opens avenues to study an individual's self-definition.",
keywords = "Concept of self, Dutch, Self-relevance, Standardized stimulus set, Valence",
author = "Dimitrova, {Lora I.} and Vissia, {Eline M.} and Hanneke Geugies and Hedwig Hofstetter and Sima Chalavi and Reinders, {Antje A. T. S.}",
note = "Funding Information: This paper represents independent research part funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King{\textquoteright}s College London. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health. A.A.T.S. Reinders was supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research ( www.nwo.nl ), NWO-VENI grant no. 451-07-009. S. Chalavi is supported by a David Caul graduate research grant from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) ( http://www.isst-d.org/about/awards.htm ). The authors thank to Prof. A. Aleman for proposing the idea that self-relevant stimuli are almost by definition emotionally salient. The authors would like to thank the participants for their participation. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s). Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1007/s10936-021-09784-1",
language = "English",
journal = "Journal of Psycholinguistic Research",
issn = "0090-6905",
publisher = "Springer New York",
}