Autobiographical reasoning in life narratives buffers the effect of biographical disruptions on the sense of self-continuity
Autobiographical reasoning in life narratives buffers the effect of biographical disruptions on the sense of self-continuity
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DOI：
10.1080/09658211.2014.920885
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发表时间：
2015-07-04
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Koeber, Christin
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作者：
Habermas, Tilmann;Koeber, Christin
个人同一性依赖于自我的共时一致性和历时连续性。自传式记忆和自传式知识以及身体完整性的稳定性，社会角色的稳定性，重要他人的稳定性以及物质和社会文化环境的稳定性都被认为支持自我连续性的前反思意识。这些领域明显的传记不连续性或中断可能会破坏自我连续性的感觉。为验证人生叙事中的自传体推理有助于补偿自我连续性对人生叙事的影响，本研究以16岁、20岁、24岁、28岁、44岁和69岁（N = 150,78名女性）为样本，对人生叙事进行了调查。研究结果证实，当且仅当在过去的四年中出现了传记性中断时，自传式推理与自我连续性感呈正相关。这一发现反驳了一个论点，即仅仅记住过去的事件就足以在传记变化的条件下保持自我连续性的感觉。
Personal identity depends on synchronic coherence and diachronic continuity of the self. Autobiographical remembering and autobiographical knowledge as well as the stability of bodily integrity, of social roles, of significant others and of physical and sociocultural environment have been suggested as supporting a pre-reflective sense of self-continuity. Stark biographical discontinuities or disruptions in these areas may destabilise the sense of self-continuity. To test the hypothesis that autobiographical reasoning in life narratives helps to compensate the effects of biographical discontinuities on the sense of self-continuity, life narratives of a lifespan sample with the ages of 16, 20, 24, 28, 44 and 69 (N = 150, 78 female) were investigated. Results confirm that if, and only if there have been biographical disruptions in the past four years, then autobiographical reasoning correlates positively with a sense of self-continuity. The findings contradict the thesis that mere remembering of past episodes is sufficient to maintain a sense of self-continuity under conditions of biographical change.