Relationship-Defining Memory in the Cultural Context: The Relation to Psychological Well-Being

IF 2.1 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Applied Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI:10.1002/acp.70043

Qingfang Song, Qi Wang

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Abstract

This study examined relationship-defining memories in the cultural context and how phenomenological characteristics of those memories were related to psychological well-being. A total of 105 Asian and 108 European American college students (Mage = 20.16 years; 64% women) each recalled a positive and a negative event significant for their relationships with parents and peers, respectively. Participants rated difficulty, affect, and subjective distance in retrieving the memories and reported psychological well-being. Independent of culture, less recall difficulty and closer subjective distance for positive parent memories were both correlated with better psychological well-being. As for negative parent memory, culture moderated the relationship between affect and psychological well-being: More fading affect was correlated with higher well-being only for Asians but not for European Americans. The phenomenology of peer memory was not significantly associated with psychological well-being. We discuss the phenomenological characteristics of relationship-defining memories in relation to psychological well-being in the cultural context.

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文化背景下关系定义记忆：与心理健康的关系

本研究考察了文化背景下关系定义记忆，以及这些记忆的现象学特征如何与心理健康相关。亚裔大学生105人，欧美大学生108人(年龄20.16岁；（64%的女性）分别回忆起与父母和同龄人关系中重要的积极和消极事件。参与者评估了检索记忆的难度、影响和主观距离，并报告了心理健康状况。与文化无关，回忆难度小、积极父母记忆的主观距离近均与心理健康状况良好相关。至于消极的父母记忆，文化调节了情感和心理幸福感之间的关系：更多的情感消退与更高的幸福感相关，只有亚洲人，而不是欧裔美国人。同伴记忆现象学与心理健康无显著相关。我们讨论关系定义记忆的现象学特征在文化背景下与心理健康的关系。

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Applied Cognitive Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

CiteScore

4.30

自引率

8.30%

发文量

111

期刊介绍： Applied Cognitive Psychology seeks to publish the best papers dealing with psychological analyses of memory, learning, thinking, problem solving, language, and consciousness as they occur in the real world. Applied Cognitive Psychology will publish papers on a wide variety of issues and from diverse theoretical perspectives. The journal focuses on studies of human performance and basic cognitive skills in everyday environments including, but not restricted to, studies of eyewitness memory, autobiographical memory, spatial cognition, skill training, expertise and skilled behaviour. Articles will normally combine realistic investigations of real world events with appropriate theoretical analyses and proper appraisal of practical implications.