Anne Michele, Janssen Steve M J
School of Psychology, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Malaysia.
Psychol Rep. 2021 Apr;124(2):521-542. doi: 10.1177/0033294120913490. Epub 2020 Mar 24.
Cultural life scripts are shared knowledge about personal events expected to be experienced by individuals within a society and used as a framework for life story narration. Differences in cultural life scripts for individuals with depression and trauma, and their relations to anxiety, stress, and well-being, have not been investigated. Malaysian participants (=120) described and rated seven significant events most likely to be experienced by a prototypical infant from their culture, and seven significant events they had experienced or expected to experience in their own life. Participants then answered questionnaires about depression and trauma symptoms and about anxiety, stress, and well-being. The subclinical depression group listed less typical cultural life scripts events, whereas the subclinical post-traumatic stress disorder group listed less positive individual life story events. The findings indicate that, although individuals with depression and trauma possess knowledge of the cultural life scripts, there may be small differences in the cognitive processing of cultural life scripts and individual life story events.
文化生活脚本是关于社会中个体预期会经历的个人事件的共享知识，并被用作生活故事叙述的框架。抑郁症和创伤患者的文化生活脚本差异及其与焦虑、压力和幸福感的关系尚未得到研究。马来西亚参与者（n = 120）描述并评价了他们文化中典型婴儿最有可能经历的七件重大事件，以及他们自己生活中已经经历或预期会经历的七件重大事件。参与者随后回答了关于抑郁和创伤症状以及焦虑、压力和幸福感的问卷。亚临床抑郁症组列出的文化生活脚本事件不太典型，而亚临床创伤后应激障碍组列出的个人生活故事事件不太积极。研究结果表明，尽管患有抑郁症和创伤的个体拥有文化生活脚本的知识，但在文化生活脚本和个人生活故事事件的认知加工方面可能存在细微差异。
