Gendered themes in family reminiscing
| Autor: | Janine P. Buckner, Robyn Fivush |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Sex Characteristics White (horse) Verbal Behavior Autobiographical memory Age Factors Identity (social science) Interpersonal communication Childhood amnesia Developmental psychology Sex Factors Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Child Preschool Mental Recall Humans Female Narrative Personal experience Parent-Child Relations Child Psychology Social psychology General Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Memory. 8:401-412 |
| ISSN: | 1464-0686 0965-8211 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09658210050156859 |
| Popis: | Previous research conducted in laboratory settings has shown reliable gender differences in autobiographical memory. However, these studies have primarily focused on structural or emotional aspects of memory narratives told to an unfamiliar experimenter. The present study extends this literature by investigating gender differences in social references and interpersonal themes in parent‐child narratives about the past. Participants were 17 white, middle-class children and their mothers and fathers, who were interviewed when children were 40 and 70 months of age. Parent‐child narratives about shared activities in the past, as well as narratives about parents’ own childhood, were examined. Results indicated that when discussing shared events, both parents talked in similar ways across children, although fathers referred to self more than mothers. However both parents referred to their girls more than their boys. Regarding event themes, parents discussed more social events with girls than with boys. Children themselves showed different gendered patterns; girls mentioned self and others, and relationships more than boys did, and children mentioned self and others more often when talking with fathers than with mothers. With respect to narratives about parents’ childhood experiences, however, no gender differences were observed, save that parents referred to others more often inretrospective narratives told to girls than to boys. These findings suggest that gendered behaviours are best understood within the specific contexts and purposes of relational interactions. Recent investigations within the field of autobiographical memory have begun to examine how individual differences in identity may be reflected in the development and maintenance of our autobiographical histories. In particular, a small body of research has begun to examine the role of gender in the ways people remember and report their personal experiences. Scattered across the field, these studies have shown that adult females tend to report longer, more detailed, and more vivid accounts of the past than do adult males (e.g., deVries, Blando, & Walker, 1995; Ross & Holmberg, 1990; Thorne, 1995; Yarmey, 1993). Women have also been shown to report events from younger ages than men do when asked to recollect their earliest memories (Cowan & Davidson, 1984; Dudycha & Dudycha, 1933; Kihlstrom & Harackiewicz |
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