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Peculiarities of Regret About the Unchosen Alternative

Student: Belchenkova Antonina

Supervisor: Anna K. Fam

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Psychology (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2019

Numerous studies into regret experience are using mainly cognitive methods of data collection, which impedes investigating the depth of regret experiences and individual phenomenological features of experience. This study aims to determine the personal characteristics associated with this phenomenon. The research method advocated here will be a 2-part study consisting of an in-depth semi-structured interview and the method of "Contracting Self" combined with Satisfaction with Life Scale Questionnaire and Subjective Quality of Choice Questionnaire and Scale to assess the degree of actual regret for the unselected alternative. To compare the qualitative change in the subjective experience of regret after a month and a half respondents are expected to fill in the same questionnaires, assess the level of regret for the unchosen alternative and answer whether there have been changes in their sense of regret. The total number of respondents who voluntarily passed an in-depth semi-structured interview is 31 people (7 men; 24 women). The interpretative phenomenological analysis combined with several methods of statistical data processing is used as the main method of data processing. The results of the study showed that an in-depth analysis of the real situation in which the person got can actualize the process of reflection on this situation, as well as accomplish a better understanding the motives of the choice made, a valuable rethinking of yourself and your choice. This research includes psychotherapeutic potential. In the future, it seems appropriate to update the findings including an equal number of men and women.

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