The University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development, 5730 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2012 Apr;82(2):220-30. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.2012.01153.x.
Life-writing, such as in diaries and memoirs, offers a means for managing misfortune and fosters an enhanced sense of self-coherence. The devastation that accompanied the effort by the Third Reich to destroy Europe's Jewish citizens challenged resilience, sense of personal agency, and the capacity to deal with personal loss and the destruction of community. The capacity for writing a coherent life story first emerges during adolescence. Reporting on the diaries of two adolescents living in Eastern European ghettos, this study considers the coping techniques that these adolescent diarists used even as they confronted their own demise. At the same time, the differing social contexts of the Łódź and Vilna ghettos posed somewhat different challenges to the resilience of these diarists. This study considers both life-writing and coping in the context both of adolescent psychological development and social context using Lazarus' portrayal of problem-focused and emotion-focused coping as conditions became ever more dire in each ghetto.
生命书写，如日记和回忆录，提供了一种应对不幸的方式，并培养了更强的自我一致性感。第三帝国努力摧毁欧洲犹太公民所带来的破坏，挑战了人们的适应力、个人能动性感和应对个人损失以及社区破坏的能力。连贯的人生故事的写作能力最早在青春期出现。本研究通过报告两位生活在东欧聚居区的青少年的日记，探讨了这些青少年日记作者在面对自己的死亡时所使用的应对技巧。同时，罗兹和维尔纳聚居区不同的社会背景对这些日记作者的适应力提出了一些不同的挑战。本研究在青少年心理发展和社会背景的背景下，考虑了生命书写和应对，使用拉扎勒斯的问题焦点和情绪焦点应对的描述，因为每个聚居区的情况变得越来越严峻。
