The subjective life story as a resource for well-being

主观生活故事作为幸福的资源

• 批准号: 421926219
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Tilmann Habermas
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Arbeitsbereich Psychoanalyse
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/421926219?language=en
• 关键词: subjective; life; story; resource; well

The project studies the contribution of the subjective life story (narrative identity) to well-being. The focus is on life story coherence and autobiographical reasoning. The study situates this relationship in the context of biographical change in a longitudinal and lifespan perspective. The study will be the first to test the relation of global coherence of life narratives to well-being and differentiate it from the relation of autobiographical reasoning to well-being. This relation is modeled along a timeline relative to life events. The central aim is to empirically study the claim that life narrating establishes personal identity across biographical change (McAdams, Ricoeur). The study intends to show that after biographical change, accommodative autobiographical reasoning buffers the negative effects on the sense of self-continuity and on well-being by bridging change in the life story. Alternative ways of safeguarding a sense of self-sameness require distorting present or past self so as to render them more similar to each other, thereby reducing the effects of the disruptive event. Thus another aim is to show that after biographical change, accommodative autobiographical reasoning protects self-knowledge of the past and the present self from being distorted. Furthermore the study tests longitudinally whether life narrative coherence serves as resilience against biographical change by predisposing individuals to cope with biographical change with accommodative autobiographical reasoning. In addition the study explores moderation of the effects of accommodative autobiographical reasoning by developmental periods of early adolescence and old age as well as by habitual rumination. The study takes builds on a 12-year-longitudinal study of entire life narratives with six age groups and a total of originally 172 participants by adding a fifth wave after 16 years and including the not yet coded fourth wave in the analyses; ages range from 8 to 77 years. To control for possible effects of repeated telling of entire life narratives and to enlarge the sample for testing cross-sectional hypotheses, and following advice by a reviewer of the previous grant proposal (DFG HA 2077/14), an additional sample will be collected, roughly doubling participants in each age group. The biographical integration of negative life events such as losses or severe illness has long been claimed as essential for coping, but has never been studied quantitatively in life stories. This study expands the dominant correlational approach of narrative well-being studies to a processual view on events and life-story coping. It also adds a truth component, self-knowledge, which is important in the fields of memory and personality studies. It contributes to the small, but burgeoning study of how self-continuity is established. Finally, the study adds a biographical dimension to lifespan personality psychology and positive psychology.

该项目研究主观生活故事（叙事身份）对幸福感的贡献。重点是生活故事的连贯性和自传推理。该研究从纵向和寿命的角度将这种关系置于传记变化的背景下。该研究将首次测试生活叙事的整体连贯性与幸福感的关系，并将其与自传推理与幸福感的关系区分开来。这种关系是沿着与生活事件相关的时间线建模的。中心目标是实证研究生活叙事在传记变化中建立个人身份的主张（麦克亚当斯，利科）。该研究旨在表明，在传记发生变化后，适应性自传推理通过桥接生活故事的变化来缓冲对自我连续性和幸福感的负面影响。维护自我同一感的替代方法需要扭曲现在或过去的自我，以使它们彼此更加相似，从而减少破坏性事件的影响。因此，另一个目的是表明，在传记改变之后，适应性自传推理可以保护过去和现在的自我知识不被扭曲。此外，该研究纵向测试了生活叙事连贯性是否可以通过使个体倾向于用适应性自传推理来应对传记变化来作为抵御传记变化的弹性。此外，该研究还探讨了青春期早期和老年发育阶段以及习惯性沉思对调节性自传推理的影响的调节。该研究建立在对六个年龄段、最初总共 172 名参与者的整个生活叙事进行 12 年纵向研究的基础上，在 16 年后添加了第五波，并将尚未编码的第四波纳入分析；年龄范围从8岁到77岁。为了控制重复讲述整个生活叙述可能产生的影响，并扩大用于测试横截面假设的样本，并遵循先前拨款提案（DFG HA 2077/14）审查员的建议，将收集额外的样本，每个年龄组的参与者大约增加一倍。长期以来，人们一直认为，诸如损失或严重疾病之类的负面生活事件的传记整合对于应对至关重要，但从未在生活故事中进行过定量研究。这项研究将叙事幸福感研究的主导相关方法扩展到对事件和生活故事应对的过程性观点。它还增加了一个真理成分，即自我认识，这在记忆和人格研究领域很重要。它有助于关于如何建立自我连续性的小型但新兴的研究。最后，该研究为终身人格心理学和积极心理学添加了传记维度。