Thomsen Dorthe Kirkegaard, Olesen Martin Hammershøj, Schnieber Anette, Tønnesvang Jan
a Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences , Aarhus University , Aarhus , Denmark.
Cogn Emot. 2014;28(2):260-77. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2013.815155. Epub 2013 Aug 6.
We examined whether past and future negative life story events, compared to past and future positive events, were less likely to be related to life story chapters and situated at a greater temporal distance from the present. We also examined relations between life stories and personality traits. Three hundred ten students and 160 middle-aged adults completed a measure of personality traits and identified chapters as well as past and future events in their life story. All life story components were rated on emotion and age. Negative future events were less likely to be a continuation of chapters and were more temporally distant than positive future events. Extraversion and Conscientiousness were related to more positive life stories, and Neuroticism was related to more negative life stories. This suggests that the life story is positively biased by minimising the negative future, and that the construction of life stories is related to personality traits.
我们研究了与过去和未来的积极事件相比，过去和未来的消极生活故事事件是否不太可能与生活故事章节相关，以及与当下的时间距离是否更远。我们还研究了生活故事与人格特质之间的关系。310名学生和160名中年成年人完成了一项人格特质测量，并确定了他们生活故事中的章节以及过去和未来的事件。所有生活故事成分都根据情感和年代进行了评级。消极的未来事件不太可能是章节的延续，并且在时间上比积极的未来事件更遥远。外向性和尽责性与更积极的生活故事相关，而神经质与更消极的生活故事相关。这表明生活故事通过最小化消极的未来而呈现出积极的偏向，并且生活故事的构建与人格特质相关。
