Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
Psychological and Speech Therapy Consultation Center, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
Memory. 2023 Apr;31(4):509-517. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2023.2172184. Epub 2023 Feb 3.
The influence of parental reminiscing style (the way parents discuss past events with their children) on the development of children's autobiographical memory has been well documented. The specific mechanisms involved in this effect, however, remain unknown. We explored the association between specific components of parental reminiscing and preschoolers' episodic memory. Fifty-three parent-child dyads (= 53.13 months, 29 females) from Belgium were tested twice within a delay of about nine months. At the first time point, parental reminiscing style was assessed via a parent-child discussion of a prior standardised event (a museum visit) focusing on both the structure of parental interactions and the addressed content. At each time point, children were administered with story-recall tasks in the form of true-false recognition about previously heard stories. Generalised linear mixed-effect models were conducted on an item-by-item basis. Results indicated that parental reminiscing is associated with preschoolers' recognition memory performance at both time points, but not all reminiscing components equally influence children's performance. Specifically, parents' concretisations and metamemory talk were found to impact children's memory. The identification of these components provided insights for exploring the processes underlying the reminiscing-memory influence (in-depth encoding of information, binding processes, and metacognition).
父母怀旧风格（父母与孩子讨论过去事件的方式）对儿童自传体记忆发展的影响已有充分记录。然而，这一效应涉及的具体机制仍不清楚。我们探讨了父母怀旧的具体成分与学龄前儿童情节记忆之间的关系。来自比利时的 53 对亲子（=53.13 个月，29 名女性）在大约 9 个月的时间内进行了两次测试。在第一次测试中，通过父母与孩子对先前标准化事件（博物馆参观）的讨论来评估父母怀旧的风格，重点是父母互动的结构和所涉及的内容。在每个时间点，孩子们都会接受关于之前听过的故事的真假识别形式的故事回忆任务。基于项目的广义线性混合效应模型被用于进行分析。结果表明，父母怀旧与学龄前儿童在两个时间点的识别记忆表现有关，但并非所有怀旧成分都平等地影响儿童的表现。具体来说，发现父母的具体化和元记忆谈话会影响孩子的记忆。这些成分的确定为探索怀旧记忆影响的背后过程（信息的深度编码、绑定过程和元认知）提供了见解。
