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“Don’t praise the day before the sunset”: Paremiology in the study of depressiveness

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dc.abstract.enPsychology and psychiatry are in a constant search for an adequate model of affective disorders. Psychology has classified depression as a mood disorder, but a growing literature links mental disorders with socioculturally relevant ways in which people experience and express distress. With this study, we link depression with proverbs as omnipresent narrative structures and mini-theories that help people interpret reality and categorize personal experience. Proverbs are omnipresent narrative structures that describe, explain, and prescribe human behavior. Hence, we offer a paremiological approach to better understand the minds of the depressed. Our tenet is that proverbs may also reflect people’s mental states and attitudes by conveying different levels of optimism versus pessimism. We evidence empirically that proverbs convey optimistic and pessimistic attitudes and, thus, have the capacity to capture peoples’ mental states. Moreover, we show that this capacity is limited for people with high depressiveness. Finally, we discuss how proverbial thinking links collective experience and wisdom imprinted in proverbs with an individual’s mental states, which has important research and practical implications.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorWołońciej, Mariusz
dc.contributor.authorWilczewski, Michał
dc.contributor.authorKreitler, Shulamith
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-24T22:12:30Z
dc.date.available2024-01-24T22:12:30Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.financePublikacja bezkosztowa
dc.description.number3
dc.description.volume27
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1354067X211025704
dc.identifier.issn1354-067X
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/105228
dc.identifier.weblinkhttp://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1354067X211025704
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationlinguistics
dc.relation.ispartofCulture and Psychology
dc.relation.pages417–433
dc.rightsClosedAccess
dc.sciencecloudnosend
dc.subject.endepression
dc.subject.enproverb
dc.subject.enculture
dc.subject.enoptimism/pessimism
dc.subject.enparemiology
dc.title“Don’t praise the day before the sunset”: Paremiology in the study of depressiveness
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication