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Ephemerality—an aesthetic value grounded in the Buddhism notion of impermanence—constitutes a mixed emotional experience in which negative appraisals of endings or short-lived phenomena are interwoven with a positive appreciation of beauty. Although mixed emotions have been linked to eudaimonic well-being, the psychological structure and affective dynamics of ephemerality and relationship among ephemeral experience and other psychological concepts including well-being remain unexplored. We propose that the unique emotional mode of finding beauty within finitude and fragility may foster meaning-making in the face of limitations, the core process of eudaimonic well-being, We also hypothesize that individuals with a broader time-scale perspective are more likely to interpret ephemeral objects or phenomena not solely as sources of loss, but as meaningful and even beautiful experiences. This may be explained by the fact that thinking across a wider time scale allows for more abstract and emotionally complex processing of experience, thereby enabling individuals to reinterpret seemingly negative aspects—such as impermanence and fragility—within a broader temporal context in a more positive and meaningful light. A longer time horizon may promote higher-level construal and emotionally complex appraisals, allowing ephemeral experiences to be reframed within larger life narratives. This reinterpretation may facilitate the integration of impermanence into a more positive and meaningful worldview. The present preregistered study therefore aims to (a) elucidate the conceptual structure, eliciting conditions, and co-occurring emotions of ephemerality through Structural Topic Modelling (STM); (b) examine whether ephemerality is conceptually and emotionally distinct from beauty and (c) examine how time-scale perspective, well-being and pro-environmental orientations are associated with their perceptions of ephemerality. We will recruit 350 native Japanese speakers via CrowdWorks platform and administer an online questionnaire on Qualtrics. Participants will first provide open-ended descriptions of situations or objects they perceive as ephemeral or beautiful, together with the emotions and thoughts those perceptions evoke. Following the free response section, participants will then complete a set of psychological scales: the Japanese versions of the Impermanence Awareness and Acceptance Scale (IMAAS-J; Goda & Nomura, 2025), Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ; Steger et al., 2006), Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS; Fujino et al., 2015), Death Attitude Profile-Revised (DAP-R; Kumabe, 2006), Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS; Mayer & Frantz, 2004), New Ecological Paradigm Scale (NEP; Dunlap et al., 2000), the Mental Health Continuum–Short Form (MHC-SF; Keyes, 2002), Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory-Short (ZTPI Short; Klicperova et al. 2015) and Brief Resilience Scale (BRS; Smith et al., 2008). In addition, IMAAS-J, MLQ, MAAS, MHC-SF, and DAP-R will be administered to examine their associations with the extracted topics. As these scales have been shown to be positively associated with well-being, it is expected that participants with higher scores on these measures will be more likely to generate positive topics in their free-response descriptions on ephemerality.

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