Özdemir Çağlayan, Leichtman Michelle D, Kreinces Lauren J, Pillemer David B
Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.
Memory. 2021 Nov;29(10):1411-1419. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2021.1978501. Epub 2021 Sep 17.
When older adults are asked to recall personal events that occurred at any point in their lives, memories from late adolescence and early adulthood are overrepresented, forming a . Thematic analyses have indicated that the bump memories that emerge in response to such prompts frequently represent milestone events that are consistent with cultural life scripts. This study employed a novel method that explicitly targeted only memories of events occurring during late adolescence and early adulthood, allowing in-depth exploration of the contents and potential organising principles associated with these memories. Older adults (= 197) completed an on-line survey in which they described 7 memories of personal events that had occurred at any time between the ages of 19 and 34. Content analyses indicated that memories frequently portrayed landmark events, consistent with cultural life script theory. After completing the memory task, participants who had been married or had their first child between ages 19 and 34 provided their age at the time of these events. Temporal distributions of memory ages centred on participants' ages at the time of their first marriage or childbirth also were consistent with the life script explanation for the reminiscence bump.
当要求老年人回忆他们一生中任何时候发生的个人事件时，来自青春期晚期和成年早期的记忆被过度呈现，形成了一个（记忆隆起）。主题分析表明，针对此类提示出现的记忆隆起所涉及的记忆常常代表与文化生活脚本一致的里程碑事件。本研究采用了一种新颖的方法，该方法仅明确针对青春期晚期和成年早期发生的事件的记忆，从而能够深入探究与这些记忆相关的内容和潜在的组织原则。197名老年人完成了一项在线调查，他们在调查中描述了19岁至34岁之间任何时候发生的7件个人事件的记忆。内容分析表明，这些记忆常常描绘具有里程碑意义的事件，这与文化生活脚本理论一致。在完成记忆任务后，那些在19岁至34岁之间结婚或生育第一个孩子的参与者提供了这些事件发生时他们的年龄。以参与者首次结婚或生育时的年龄为中心的记忆年龄的时间分布也与对回忆隆起的生活脚本解释一致。
