Grysman Azriel, Schlaupitz Caleb, Bohanek Jennifer G, Lukowski Angela F
Department of Psychology, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, USA.
Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
Memory. 2024 Oct;32(9):1146-1157. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2387106. Epub 2024 Aug 26.
Transgender individuals face challenges to identity as they transition from their sex assigned at birth to their affirmed gender. Memories may support a sense of self through the recall of events with more phenomenological detail than others, making them feel closer to the current self. Autobiographical memories of 90 transgender and 90 cisgender adults were compared on self-reported memory phenomenology. Memory phenomenology was more variable in transgender individuals, with a larger difference between phenomenological ratings of recent and distant memories. Memory phenomenology specifically varied in relation to the timing of coming out to a parent. High points reported after this time were rated with higher phenomenological quality and these ratings were linked to positive well-being. Results affirm the relevance of phenomenological continuity to the identity of transgender individuals, suggesting that events from before coming out are recalled with less phenomenological quality than events after coming out.
跨性别者在从出生时被指定的性别过渡到他们所认同的性别过程中，面临着身份认同方面的挑战。记忆可能通过回忆比其他事件具有更多现象学细节的经历来支持自我意识，使他们感觉更贴近当下的自我。对90名跨性别成年人和90名顺性别成年人的自传体记忆进行了自我报告的记忆现象学比较。跨性别者的记忆现象学更具变异性，近期记忆和远期记忆的现象学评分差异更大。记忆现象学尤其因向父母出柜的时间而有所不同。在出柜之后报告的高光时刻被评为具有更高的现象学质量，并且这些评分与积极的幸福感相关。结果证实了现象学连续性与跨性别者身份认同的相关性，表明出柜前的事件比出柜后的事件在回忆时现象学质量更低。
