Psychology Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Canada.
Br J Psychol. 2010 Nov;101(Pt 4):719-37. doi: 10.1348/000712609X482948. Epub 2010 Jan 25.
The first years of life are typically shrouded by infantile amnesia, but there is enormous variability between adults in how early and how much they can remember from this period. This study examined one possible factor affecting this variability: whether the perceived quality of parent-child relationships is associated with the number of early memories young adults can retrieve, and their age at the time of their first memory. We found such associations but they were qualified by parent gender. Mother-child relationships that were more affectively intense (greater social support but also more negative interchanges) were associated with recalling more early memories, although paternal companionship was most associated with how early an individual's first memory was. Affective tone of retrieved memories was also assessed, and a greater proportion of affectively positive memories (as well as fewer affectively neutral memories for males) was associated with high parental involvement in children's lives.
生命的最初几年通常被婴儿期遗忘所笼罩，但成年人之间从这段时期回忆的早晚和多少存在巨大差异。本研究探讨了影响这种差异的一个可能因素：个体感知到的亲子关系质量是否与年轻人能回忆起的早期记忆数量及其首次记忆的年龄有关。我们发现了这种关联，但它们受到了父母性别的限制。情感更强烈的母子关系（更多的社会支持，但也更多的负面交流）与回忆更多的早期记忆有关，尽管父亲的陪伴与个体的第一个记忆出现的时间最早最相关。还评估了所回忆记忆的情感基调，更多的情感积极记忆（以及男性中更少的情感中性记忆）与父母对孩子生活的高度参与有关。
