Collective transition and personal identity in autobiographical memory organization_data set

The organisation and recall of autobiographical memories
(AMs) have been a significant topic of research for many years. This study
investigated the AMs of Bangladesh liberation war veterans and nonveterans to
test the predictions of the Self Memory System theory and the Transition
theory. The participants retrieved twenty memories to cue words, dated the
memories, and finally rated them for emotional valence, importance, vividness,
and centrality to their life narrative on 5-point Likert-type scales. The
results revealed that while the veterans and nonveterans have a similar
lifetime distribution of memories, veterans had significantly more war memories
than nonveterans and that they used different reference events to date their
memories. Although 15.8% of the memories were dated in reference to the
historical/public events; in other words, they contained historically defined
autobiographical periods (i.e., H-DAPs), this effect was not equally pronounced
across the two groups. The veterans used proportionally more historical/public
events to date their memories than nonveterans. The veterans rated their
memories as more importance, self-defining, and emotionally intense than did
the nonveterans. The veterans also reported a stronger sense of generational
identity than nonveterans. These results are more consistent with the
Self-Memory System theory than the Transition theory. However, because these
two theories appeal to different psychological processes, we suggest the
theories should be integrated to drive theoretical advances in the
understanding of AM. These two file contain data set for this study.

自传体记忆（autobiographical memories, AMs）的组织与提取，多年来一直是重要的研究课题。本研究以孟加拉国解放战争退伍军人与非退伍军人的自传体记忆为研究对象，旨在验证自我记忆系统（Self Memory System）理论与过渡（Transition）理论的相关预测。参与者需针对线索词提取20段记忆，为记忆标注日期，并最终通过李克特5级量表对记忆的情绪效价、重要性、生动性以及其在个人人生叙事中的核心程度进行评分。研究结果显示，尽管退伍军人与非退伍军人的记忆终身分布模式相似，但退伍军人的战争相关记忆数量显著多于非退伍军人，且二者用于标注记忆日期的参照事件存在差异。尽管15.8%的记忆通过历史/公共事件标注日期，换言之，这些记忆包含了历史定义的自传体时期（historically defined autobiographical periods, H-DAPs），但该现象在两组人群中的表现并不均衡。相较非退伍军人，退伍军人会更多地按比例使用历史/公共事件作为记忆日期标注的参照。相较于非退伍军人，退伍军人对自身记忆的重要性、自我定义性与情绪强度评分更高。同时，退伍军人报告的代际身份认同感也强于非退伍军人。上述研究结果与自我记忆系统理论的契合度高于过渡理论。然而，由于这两种理论基于不同的心理学过程，我们建议应将二者整合，以推动自传体记忆研究领域的理论发展。本研究的数据集包含于这两份文件中。