The subjective life story as a resource for well-being

主观生活故事作为幸福的资源

• 批准号: 421926219
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Tilmann Habermas
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Arbeitsbereich Psychoanalyse
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/421926219?language=en
• 关键词: subjective; life; story; resource; well

The project studies the contribution of the subjective life story (narrative identity) to well-being. The focus is on life story coherence and autobiographical reasoning. The study situates this relationship in the context of biographical change in a longitudinal and lifespan perspective. The study will be the first to test the relation of global coherence of life narratives to well-being and differentiate it from the relation of autobiographical reasoning to well-being. This relation is modeled along a timeline relative to life events. The central aim is to empirically study the claim that life narrating establishes personal identity across biographical change (McAdams, Ricoeur). The study intends to show that after biographical change, accommodative autobiographical reasoning buffers the negative effects on the sense of self-continuity and on well-being by bridging change in the life story. Alternative ways of safeguarding a sense of self-sameness require distorting present or past self so as to render them more similar to each other, thereby reducing the effects of the disruptive event. Thus another aim is to show that after biographical change, accommodative autobiographical reasoning protects self-knowledge of the past and the present self from being distorted. Furthermore the study tests longitudinally whether life narrative coherence serves as resilience against biographical change by predisposing individuals to cope with biographical change with accommodative autobiographical reasoning. In addition the study explores moderation of the effects of accommodative autobiographical reasoning by developmental periods of early adolescence and old age as well as by habitual rumination. The study takes builds on a 12-year-longitudinal study of entire life narratives with six age groups and a total of originally 172 participants by adding a fifth wave after 16 years and including the not yet coded fourth wave in the analyses; ages range from 8 to 77 years. To control for possible effects of repeated telling of entire life narratives and to enlarge the sample for testing cross-sectional hypotheses, and following advice by a reviewer of the previous grant proposal (DFG HA 2077/14), an additional sample will be collected, roughly doubling participants in each age group. The biographical integration of negative life events such as losses or severe illness has long been claimed as essential for coping, but has never been studied quantitatively in life stories. This study expands the dominant correlational approach of narrative well-being studies to a processual view on events and life-story coping. It also adds a truth component, self-knowledge, which is important in the fields of memory and personality studies. It contributes to the small, but burgeoning study of how self-continuity is established. Finally, the study adds a biographical dimension to lifespan personality psychology and positive psychology.

该项目研究了主观生活故事（叙事身份）对幸福感的贡献。重点是生活故事的连贯性和自传推理。该研究将这种关系在传记变化的背景下以纵向和寿命的观点为背景。这项研究将是第一个测试生活叙事全球连贯性与幸福感的关系，并将其从自传推理的关系与幸福感的关系区分开来。这种关系是按照时间表相对于生活事件建模的。核心目的是从经验上研究叙述生活在传记变化（麦克亚当斯，里科尔）中建立个人身份的说法。该研究旨在表明，经过传记变化，适应性的自传推理缓解了对自我接触感以及通过弥合生活故事的变化而对幸福感的负面影响。维护自我锻炼感的替代方法需要使现在或过去的自我扭曲，以使他们彼此之间更加相似，从而减少了破坏性事件的影响。因此，另一个目的是表明，在传记变化之后，适应性的自传推理可以保护过去和当前自我的自我知识，以免被扭曲。此外，这项研究纵向测试了生活叙事连贯性是否可以通过使个人易于应对传记变化，以应对自传的自传推理，以抵抗传记变化。此外，该研究还探讨了根据青春期和老年和习惯反省的发育时期的适度适度。该研究基于对整个生活叙事进行了为期12年的长期研究，其中六个年龄段和总共172名参与者在16年后增加了第五波，其中包括分析中尚未编码的第四波。年龄从8到77岁不等。为了控制重复讲述整个生活叙事的可能影响，并扩大样本以测试横断面假设，并遵循先前赠款提案的审稿人的建议（DFG HA 2077/14），将收集一个其他样本，将每个年龄段的参与者大约增加一倍。长期以来，负面生活事件（例如损失或严重疾病）的传记整合被认为是应对必不可少的，但从未在生活中进行定量研究。这项研究将叙事福祉研究的主要相关方法扩展到了有关事件和生活故事应对的过程观点。它还增加了一个真实组成部分，即自我知识，这在记忆和人格研究领域很重要。它有助于对如何建立自我接触的小型但新兴的研究。最后，该研究为寿命人格心理学和积极心理学增加了传记维度。