Monroe S M
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1982 May;39(5):606-10. doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.1982.04290050074014.
The relationship of life events to different disorders continues to be of great interest. Most communications, however, have been based on self-report data gathered retrospectively over lengthy intervals (eg, one to ten years). While recent studies have attempted to ascertain the degree of distortion associated with such procedures, none has provided an appropriate basis for estimating absolute decrements of event reporting over time. This study compares the traditional retrospective procedure with a concurrent assessment procedure covering shorter recall periods (one month). The findings indicate as much as 60% of events may be underreported for even the most recent four-month retrospective period. Additionally, particular types of events (eg, desirable events) may be relatively more susceptible to such reporting distortion. Implications of these results for life events assessment and conceptualization of event-disorder associations are discussed.
生活事件与不同疾病之间的关系一直备受关注。然而，大多数交流都是基于在很长一段时间（例如一到十年）内回顾性收集的自我报告数据。虽然最近的研究试图确定与这些程序相关的扭曲程度，但没有一项研究为估计事件报告随时间的绝对减少提供适当的依据。本研究将传统的回顾性程序与涵盖较短回忆期（一个月）的同期评估程序进行了比较。研究结果表明，即使是最近四个月的回顾期，多达60%的事件可能未被报告。此外，特定类型的事件（例如合意事件）可能相对更容易受到这种报告扭曲的影响。讨论了这些结果对生活事件评估以及事件与疾病关联概念化的影响。
