The structure of autobiographical memory and the event history calendar: Potential improvements in the quality of retrospective reports in surveys
The structure of autobiographical memory and the event history calendar: Potential improvements in the quality of retrospective reports in surveys
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DOI：
10.1080/741942610
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发表时间：
1998-07-01
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Belli, RF
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作者：
Belli, RF
本文回顾了有关自传体记忆结构的文献，并指出使用事件历史日历作为反映这种结构的调查方法。自传体记忆结构的特点是一个层次网络，包括扩展，总结，和具体的事件，并允许检索过去的事件，通过多个途径，工作自上而下的层次结构中，顺序内的生活主题，统一扩展的事件，并在平行的生活主题，涉及同期和连续的事件。传统的调查问题倾向于将自传体事件的相关方面彼此分开，并且不能反映自传体记忆结构中所指示的事件的相互关联性。相反，事件历史日历确实促进了自传体记忆网络中的顺序和平行提取。通过反映自传体记忆的结构，使用事件历史日历在帮助受访者更完整和准确地重建他们的个人过去方面具有相当大的潜力，最大限度地提高了回顾性报告的质量。
This paper reviews the literature on the structure of autobiographical memory and points to the use of event history calendars as a survey methodology that reflects this structure. Autobiographical memory structure is characterised as an hierarchical network that includes extended, summarised, and specific events, and that permits retrieval of past events through multiple pathways that work top-down in the hierarchy, sequentially within life themes that unify extended events, and in parallel across life themes that involve contemporaneous and sequential events. Traditional survey questions tend to segment related aspects of autobiographical events from one another, and do not reflect the interrelatedness of events as indicated within the structure of autobiographical memory. In contrast, event history calendars do promote sequential and parallel retrieval within the autobiographical memory network. By reflecting the structure of autobiographical memory, the use of event history calendars has considerable potential in assisting respondents to reconstruct their personal pasts more completely and accurately, maximising the quality of retrospective reports.