Stories of the young and the old: Personal continuity and narrative identity
Stories of the young and the old: Personal continuity and narrative identity
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DOI：
10.1037/0012-1649.44.1.254
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
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4
通讯作者：
McLean, Kate C.
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作者：
McLean, Kate C.
这项研究考察了两组参与者的叙事同一性，这两组参与者的年龄从青春期晚期到成年初期不等，年龄较大(65岁以上)。参与者完成了一次广泛的采访，在采访中他们报告了三个自我定义的记忆。访谈被编码为自传式推理的几个特征：代表自我稳定或自我改变的自我事件联系，事件-事件联系，反思处理和主题连贯性。结果表明，在自我事件连接的频率或反思加工水平方面，年龄较大和年龄较小的群体没有差异。然而，与年轻组相比，老年组具有更多的主题连贯性和更多代表稳定的故事，而年轻组拥有更多代表变化的故事。性别差异也出现了，这表明女性在叙事认同的发展中可能具有优势。研究结果以不同的方式在生命周期的两端呈现叙事同一性。
This study examined narrative identity in 2 groups of participants who were younger (ages ranging from late adolescence through young adulthood) and older (over the age of 65 years). Participants completed an extensive interview in which they reported three self-defining memories. Interviews were coded for several characteristics of autobiographical reasoning: self-event connections representing self-stability or self-change, event-event connections, reflective processing, and thematic coherence. Results showed that the older and younger groups were not different in terms of the frequencies of self-event connections or the levels of reflective processing. However, in comparison with the younger group, the older group had more thematic coherence and more stories representing stability, whereas the younger group had more stories representing change. Gender differences also emerged, suggesting that females may have an advantage in the development of narrative identity. Results are discussed in terms of the different ways to represent narrative identity at 2 ends of the life span.