The aim of this study was to investigate whether cultural differences exist in event centrality, emotional distress and well-being a total 565 adults above age 40 from Mexico, Greenland, China Denmark. Participants completed questionnaires determine their level post-traumatic stress disorder depression symptoms, life satisfaction. They also centrality scales for most positive negative events. Across cultures, participants rated events as more central identity stories, compared with...

People generally believe that their own future will be better than the one of comparable others. Robust evidence documents such unrealistic optimism in many domains life. Here, we examine how may affect people's risk assessments COVID-19 infection as well attitudes regarding behaviours intended to protect against contagion. In two studies conducted USA (N = 160) and UK 161), at different times during pandemic, show participants considered likelihood contracting carrying lower for themselves...

Emotional valence of memories for autobiographical events is related to their distribution across the lifespan.Memories retrieved in response requests positive cluster young adulthood, when examined middle-aged and older individuals Western cultures.However, cultural differences have not been examined.Here a total 565 participants from Mexico, China, Greenland, Denmark were asked recall most stressful or traumatic lives, indicate how old they happened.Consistent with prior studies, life...

Little research has been conducted as to how far older and younger adults extend their self-images into the future, that is, imagined future selves, such family roles, hobbies, or traits.According one line of research, we should expect aging be associated with changes in time perspective, perceive futures more limited less central compared adults.According another view, distance which individuals project themselves may not simply a function age-related perspectives, but formed by...

Summary The extent to which highly emotional autobiographical memories become central one's identity and life story influences mental health. Young adults report higher distress lower well‐being, compared with middle‐aged and/or older adults; whether this replicates across cultures is still unclear. First, we provide a review of the literature that examines age‐differences in depression, post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), satisfaction adulthood cultures. Second, findings from...

Autobiographical memory and personal life stories are typically conceived as memories about the self. However, often contain information important events from other people's lives. Sometimes those become an part of our own stories, illuminating role that people play in remembering past. In this study, we examined extent to which story self-focused (e.g., I moved Japan) or other-focused My child graduated college). Participants Mexico, Greenland, China, Denmark United States recalled dated...

Emotionally intense experiences lead to particularly durable and detailed autobiographical memories (AM) [1,2]. However, the influence of arousal on self-reports phenomenological characteristics events AMs is not direct, but moderated at cognitive level [3,4]. To address how individual differences in emotional awareness moderate physiology-subjective experience link, we collected data using a questionnaire from mindfulness literature, Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ [5]). In...