Unveiling the underlying structure of awe in virtual reality and in autobiographical recall: an exploratory study.
AWE-S
Autobiographical recall
Awe
Confirmatory factor analysis
Emotion
Exploratory factor analysis
Virtual reality
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
30 05 2024
30 05 2024
Historique:
received:
25
06
2023
accepted:
20
05
2024
medline:
31
5
2024
pubmed:
31
5
2024
entrez:
30
5
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Over the last two decades, awe has attracted the attention of an increasing number of researchers. The use of virtual reality has been identified as one of the most effective techniques for eliciting awe, in addition to more personalized methods for inducing emotion, such as autobiographical recall. However, previous measures of awe were unable to uncover the hidden structure of this experience. Awe experience scale (AWE-S) has been validated as a comprehensive measure of contingent awe in English, providing new opportunities for analysis. In this two-phases study, we investigated whether the latent structure of the experience of awe evoked by the autobiographical recall technique (Study 1) overlapped with that induced by exposing participants to a validated virtual reality awe-eliciting training (Study 2). The original English AWE-S structure held both in autobiographical recall induction and virtual reality-based elicitation. Despite evidence of overlap between English and Italian structures, low correlations were found between Italian trait measures used to test the concurrent validity of the AWE-S in the Italian sample and AWE-S state dimensions. This study highlights cultural differences in awe experience, trait, and state variations, and provides new insights into the standardized induction of this emotion through simulated environments.
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pubmed: 38816477
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-62654-3
pii: 10.1038/s41598-024-62654-3
doi:
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Journal Article
Langues
eng
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Organisme : Italian Ministry of Health
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