McLean Kate C, Mansfield Cade D
Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA.
New Dir Child Adolesc Dev. 2011 Spring;2011(131):85-97. doi: 10.1002/cd.291.
Autobiographical reasoning has been found to be a critical process in identity development; however, the authors suggest that existing research shows that such reasoning may not always be critical to another important outcome: well-being. The authors describe characteristics of people such as personality and age, contexts such as conversations, and experiences such as transgressions, which may hinder adaptive reasoning. They also propose alternatives to autobiographical reasoning for managing challenging events and constructing the life story, which include different kinds of meaning-making than those primarily focused on in the current literature.
自传推理已被发现是身份认同发展中的一个关键过程；然而，作者们指出，现有研究表明，这种推理可能并非总是对另一个重要结果——幸福感至关重要。作者们描述了诸如性格和年龄等个人特征、诸如对话等情境以及诸如违规行为等经历，这些可能会阻碍适应性推理。他们还提出了替代自传推理的方法，用于应对具有挑战性的事件和构建人生故事，其中包括与当前文献中主要关注的意义建构不同的各类意义建构。
