School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Memory. 2013 Jan;21(1):10-26. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2012.707213. Epub 2012 Aug 17.
The current study investigated whether young adults' tendency to engage in autobiographical reasoning that described the self in positive and negative ways moderated: (1) the relationship between the amount and complexity of autobiographical reasoning in narratives of high and low points and psychological functioning, (2) the relationship between beliefs about the centrality of negative life events (low points) and psychological functioning. Narratives of life story high and low points, collected from 98 young adults, were coded for two types of autobiographical reasoning: self-event connections and sophistication of meaning. Participants also completed a measure of psychopathology and a measure of psychological well-being, and rated the centrality of each narrated event. Results showed that making more self-event connections and gaining more complex insights into the self was associated with higher levels of psychopathology for young adults who tended to reason about the self in negative ways. Further, endorsing low points as central to identity was associated with psychopathology and poor psychological well-being, but not for young adults who were more likely to reason about the self in positive ways in narratives of these difficult experiences. Results are discussed in terms of the implications for the relationship between psychological functioning and life story development.
（1）自传体推理的数量和复杂性与高、低生活事件叙述中的心理功能之间的关系；（2）关于消极生活事件（低生活事件）中心性的信念与心理功能之间的关系。从 98 名年轻人那里收集了生活故事的高、低事件叙述，对两种类型的自传体推理进行了编码：自我事件联系和意义的复杂性。参与者还完成了一个心理病理学量表和一个心理幸福感量表，并对每个叙述事件的中心性进行了评分。结果表明，对于那些倾向于以消极方式推理自我的年轻人来说，更多地建立自我事件联系并更深入地了解自我，与更高水平的心理病理学相关。此外，将低生活事件视为身份的核心与心理病理学和较差的心理幸福感相关，但对于那些在这些困难经历的叙述中更有可能以积极方式推理自我的年轻人来说并非如此。结果从心理功能与生活故事发展之间关系的角度进行了讨论。
