Peterson Carole, Smorti Andrea, Tani Franca
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.
Memory. 2008;16(6):569-78. doi: 10.1080/02687030802025984.
Recently, independent lines of research have indirectly supported the notion that social variables, especially parent-child relationships, have a significant impact on adults' memories of their early life. In order to directly assess this Italian students were asked to recall as many memories involving parents as they could from before the age of 6 in a 3-minute timed recall task (i.e., memory fluency). They also filled out assessments about parental involvement in their lives as well as the quality of their relationships with their mothers and fathers. We found that, for males, the more involved the parents and the warmer the relationships between sons and both their mothers and their fathers, the more early memories, the more positive early memories, and the more episodic memories men recalled. For women, the warmer the relationship with their mothers, the earlier their earliest memory. Results are discussed in terms of gendered parent-child interactions as well as McAdam's emergent life-story theory.
最近，独立的研究方向间接支持了这样一种观点，即社会变量，尤其是亲子关系，对成年人对其早年生活的记忆有重大影响。为了直接评估这一点，意大利学生被要求在一项3分钟的限时回忆任务（即记忆流畅性）中尽可能多地回忆6岁之前与父母有关的记忆。他们还填写了关于父母在其生活中的参与程度以及他们与父母关系质量的评估。我们发现，对于男性来说，父母参与度越高，儿子与父母双方的关系越亲密，男性回忆起的早期记忆就越多、早期记忆越积极、情景记忆也越多。对于女性来说，与母亲的关系越亲密，其最早的记忆就越早。我们将根据性别化的亲子互动以及麦克亚当斯的新兴生活故事理论来讨论这些结果。
