Life changes. Do people really remember?
Life changes. Do people really remember?
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生活发生变化。
作者：
C. Jenkins;M. Hurst;R. Rose
在一项对近400名从事责任性职业的健康男性进行的纵向研究中，探讨了“人们对生活变化的记忆程度如何？”这一问题。在相隔9个月的两次检查中，通过问卷调查使用了三种评估生活变化的量表。要求受试者报告在特定的6个月期间（即第一次检查之前的那段时间）发生的生活变化事件。对于所有三种生活变化量表，在两次报告之间的间隔内都存在大量遗忘情况，第二次报告得出的总分比同一时期第一次报告的总分低34%到46%。不同人之间随时间变化的程度差异很大。这些发现对回顾性研究生活变化与疾病（当所报告的时期是过去6个月以上时）的有效性提出了严重质疑。然而，它们并没有危及该方法在前瞻性研究中的潜力。
The question, "How well do people remember life changes?" was approached in a longitudinal study of nearly 400 healthy men in a responsible profession. Three scales for assessing life changes were administered by questionnaire at two examinations nine months apart. The subjects were asked to report life change events occurring during a specific six-month period--that which immediately preceded the first examination. For all three life change scales there was substantial forgetting over the interval between reports, with a second report yielding total scores 34% to 46% less than those from the first report for the same period. The amount of change over time varied greatly across persons. These findings raise serious questions about the validity of retrospective studies of life change and illness when the period being reported is greater than six months in the past. They do not, however, jeopardize the potential of the method for prospective studies.