Two versions of life: emotionally negative and positive life events have different roles in the organization of life story and identity.
Two versions of life: emotionally negative and positive life events have different roles in the organization of life story and identity.
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DOI：
10.1037/a0024940
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发表时间：
2011-10
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影响因子：
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通讯作者：
Siegler IC
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作者：
Berntsen D;Rubin DC;Siegler IC
超过2000名60多岁的成年人完成了事件中心性量表（CES），包括现在最困扰他们的创伤或消极事件，以及他们最积极的生活事件，以及当前PTSD症状、抑郁、幸福感和个性的测量。与老年积极倾向的概念一致，积极事件被认为比消极事件对生活故事和身份更重要。积极事件的中心性与PTSD症状和情绪困扰的测量无关，而消极事件的中心性与这些测量显示出明显的正相关。积极事件的中心性随事件发生时间的增加而增加，而消极事件的中心性随事件发生时间的增加而降低。积极事件的寿命分布在青年期达到峰值，而消极事件的寿命分布在被试当前年龄达到峰值。积极的事件大多是来自文化生活剧本的事件，也就是说，主要过渡事件发生的时间在文化上是共同的。总的来说，我们的研究结果表明，积极和消极的自传体事件与生活故事和身份的关系明显不同。积极事件成为生活故事和身份的中心，主要是通过它们与文化规范的对应。消极事件通过与情绪困扰相关的机制成为中心。
Over 2,000 adults in their sixties completed the Centrality of Event Scale (CES) for the traumatic or negative event that now troubled them the most and for their most positive life event, as well as measures of current PTSD symptoms, depression, well-being, and personality. Consistent with the notion of a positivity bias in old age, the positive events were judged to be markedly more central to life story and identity than were the negative events. The centrality of positive events was unrelated to measures of PTSD symptoms and emotional distress, whereas the centrality of the negative event showed clear positive correlations with these measures. The centrality of the positive events increased with increasing time since the events, whereas the centrality of the negative events decreased. The life distribution of the positive events showed a marked peak in young adulthood whereas the life distribution for the negative events peaked at the participants’ present age. The positive events were mostly events from the cultural life script – that is, culturally shared representations of the timing of major transitional events. Overall, our findings show that positive and negative autobiographical events relate markedly differently to life story and identity. Positive events become central to life story and identity primarily through their correspondence with cultural norms. Negative events become central through mechanisms associated with emotional distress.
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