Panattoni Katherine, Thomsen Dorthe Kirkegaard
a Center for Autobiographical Memory Research (CON AMORE), Department of Psychology and Behavioral Science , Aarhus University , Aarhus C , Denmark.
Memory. 2018 Nov;26(10):1416-1429. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2018.1485947. Epub 2018 Jun 12.
In this paper, we examined relationships and differences between personal and vicarious life stories, i.e., the life stories one knows of others. Personal and vicarious life stories of both members of 51 young couples (102 participants), based on McAdams' Life Story Interview (2008), were collected. We found significant positive relationships between participants' personal and vicarious life stories on agency and communion themes and redemption sequences. We also found significant positive relationships between participants' vicarious life stories about their partners and those partners' personal life stories on agency and communion, but not redemption. Furthermore, these relationships were not explained by similarity between couples' two personal life stories, as no associations were found between couples' personal stories on agency, communion and redemption. These results suggest that the way we construct the vicarious life stories of close others may reflect how we construct our personal life stories.
在本文中，我们研究了个人生活故事与替代性生活故事（即一个人所知晓的他人的生活故事）之间的关系和差异。基于麦克亚当斯的生活故事访谈（2008年），我们收集了51对年轻夫妇（102名参与者）双方的个人生活故事和替代性生活故事。我们发现，参与者的个人生活故事与替代性生活故事在能动性、共融主题和救赎序列方面存在显著的正相关关系。我们还发现，参与者关于其伴侣的替代性生活故事与这些伴侣在能动性和共融方面的个人生活故事之间存在显著的正相关关系，但在救赎方面不存在。此外，这些关系并不能用夫妻双方两个个人生活故事之间的相似性来解释，因为在夫妻个人故事的能动性、共融和救赎方面未发现关联。这些结果表明，我们构建亲密他人替代性生活故事的方式可能反映了我们构建自己个人生活故事的方式。
