340 W. E. SNELL JR. AND M. H. DAVIS IMAGINATION, COGNITION AND PERSONALITY, Vol. 6(4),1986-87 16. M. F. Scheier and C. S. Carver, Self-focused Attention and the Experience of Emotion: Attraction, Repulsion, Elation, and Depression, Journal of Persollality alld Social Psychology, 35, pp. 625-636, 1977. 17. __ , Private and Public Self-attention, Resistance to Change, and Dissonance Reduction, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39, pp. 390-405, 1980. 18. C. S. Carver and M. F. Scheier, Attention and Self-regulation: A Control-Theory Approach 10 Human Behavior, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1981. 19. M. F. Scheier and C. S. Carver, Private and Public Aspects of Self, in RevieH.' of Persollality and Social Psychology (Volume 2), L. Wheeler (ed.), Sage, Beverly Hills, 1981. Direct reprint requests to: William E. Snell, Jr. Department of Psychology 404 Scully Building Southeast Missouri State University Cape Girardeau, MO 63701 MOMENTS OF AFFECTIVE INSIGHT: THEIR PHE OMENOLOGY AND RELATIONS TO SELECTED INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES* DON KUIKEN ROBERT CAREY TORE NIELSEN University of Alberta, Edmonton ABSTRACT Affective insight was defined as a subjective event occurring during intensive self-reflection. To study affective insight, seventy-nine individuals were presented instructions designed to encourage intensive self-reflection. Subsequently, they completed an open-ended questionnaire and a seventy-two-item true-false questionnaire describing their experience during self-reflection. Q-type factor analysis of the seventy-two-item questionnaire revealed four different types of reactions during the instructions: underdistancing, overdistancing, intellectual self-control, and apprehensive insight. An eight-item Affective Insight Scale (AIS) was developed which was independent of social desirability, which differentiated these four groups of participants, and which correlated positively with a judge's ratings of affective insight as indicated in responses to the open-ended questionnaire. Using the AIS, there was support for the hypothesis that affective insight is associated with imagery involvement, as measured by the Creative Imagination Scale, the Absorption Scale, and Rorschach M responses. There was also some support for the hypothesis that affective insight is associated with a preference for novel imagery, as measured by the Barron-Welsch Art Scale. Other trait measures predicted reactions which were conceptually and empiricaUy independent of affective insight (e.g., intellectual self-control), indicating the importance of simultaneously studying different reactions during intensive self-reflection. • This research was supported by a grant from the Alberta Mental Health Advisory Council to the first author. 341 © 1987, Baywood Publishing Co., Inc.