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Self-Continuity.

Constantine Sedikides¹, Emily K Hong¹, Tim Wildschut¹

¹Centre for Research on Self and Identity, School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; email: C.Sedikides@soton.ac.uk, E.Hong@soton.ac.uk, R.T.Wildschut@soton.ac.uk.

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Summary

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Self-continuity, the sense of connection across time, influences motivation, health, and behavior. Understanding its forms and factors offers insights into psychological well-being and future research directions.

Keywords:

attitudes behavior collective self culture psychological health self-continuity

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Background:

Self-continuity encompasses past-present, present-future, and global connections between temporal selves.
It possesses motivational and regulatory properties influenced by internal and external factors.
Research explores its impact on attitudes, decisions, behavior, and health, alongside benefits of self-discontinuity.

Purpose of the Study:

To review the motivational aspects, regulatory functions, and consolidating factors of self-continuity.
To examine the consequences of self-continuity and self-discontinuity on various psychological and behavioral outcomes.
To explore neural correlates, developmental trajectories, collective aspects, and cultural variations of self-continuity.

Main Methods:

Literature review and synthesis of existing research on self-continuity.
Analysis of motivational, regulatory, and consequential aspects across different forms of self-continuity.
Integration of findings from psychological, neuroscientific, and cultural studies.

Main Results:

Self-continuity significantly impacts attitudes, decisions, motivation, intentions, and behavior.
Both self-continuity and self-discontinuity yield psychological and behavioral benefits.
Specific brain regions are activated synchronously with self-continuity, with developmental and cultural variations observed.

Conclusions:

Self-continuity is a multifaceted construct with broad implications for psychological functioning and health.
Understanding its dynamics, including collective and cultural aspects, is crucial for future research.
This review highlights the synergistic efforts and promising future directions in self-continuity research.