Thomas Lisa, Briggs Pam
PaCT Lab, Psychology Department, Northumbria University Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Front Psychol. 2016 Jun 14;7:870. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00870. eCollection 2016.
Reminiscence is used to support and create new social bonds and give meaning to life. Originally perceived as a preoccupation of the aged, we now recognize that reminiscence has value throughout the lifespan. Increasingly, social media can be used to both support and prompt reminiscence, with Facebook's Lookback or Year in Review as recent examples. This work takes prompted reminiscence further, asking what forms and functions of reminiscence are supported by social media. Utilizing the online service MySocialBook, we invited participants to curate content from their personal Facebook account to then be transformed into a printed book. We used that book as a prompt for discussion of the reminiscence function of the curated material, using Westerhof and Bohlmeijer's (2014) reminiscence framework as a starting point. We conclude that this framework is valuable in understanding the role of social media in reminiscence, but note that earlier models, such as Webster's Reminiscence Functions Scale, are also relevant. We contribute to the reminiscence debate by adding a technological lens to the process of life review, whilst concurring with other researchers in this field that a robust conceptual framework is lacking, particularly when considering the forms of reminiscence that are most salient for younger people.
回忆被用于维系和建立新的社会联系，并赋予生命意义。回忆最初被视为老年人的专属行为，而如今我们认识到回忆在整个人生阶段都具有价值。社交媒体越来越多地被用于支持和引发回忆，例如脸书的“回顾”或“年度回顾”。本研究进一步探讨引发回忆，研究社交媒体支持哪些回忆形式和功能。我们利用在线服务“MySocialBook”，邀请参与者从他们的脸书个人账户中挑选内容，然后将其制作成一本印刷书籍。我们以这本书为契机，以韦斯特霍夫和博尔梅耶尔（2014年）的回忆框架为起点，讨论所选素材的回忆功能。我们得出结论，该框架对于理解社交媒体在回忆中的作用很有价值，但也指出早期的模型，如韦伯斯特的回忆功能量表，也具有相关性。我们通过在人生回顾过程中加入技术视角，为回忆的讨论做出了贡献，同时也认同该领域其他研究人员的观点，即缺乏一个强大的概念框架，尤其是在考虑对年轻人最显著的回忆形式时。
