scholarly journals Memories of who we are: A preliminary identification of autobiographical memory functions in recall of authentic and inauthentic events

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Sutton ◽  
Jason Render
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Social Function ◽  
The Self ◽  
Autobiographical Memories ◽  
Memory Functions ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Preliminary Identification ◽  
Preliminary Examination ◽  
The Social ◽  
Directive Function

The story of who we are is central to our sense of authenticity and this story is constructed from our autobiographical memories. Yet we know surprisingly little about the functions that autobiographical memories of being authentic serve. This study provides a preliminary examination of the self, social and directive functions used in autobiographical memories of being authentic and inauthentic. Participants recalled times they felt they had been authentic or inauthentic at work. Analyses revealed that the self and directive functions were significantly more prevalent than the social function. In addition, authentic memories were most strongly associated with the self function while inauthentic memories were more likely to be used for the directive function. This may indicate that recall of an authentic experience serves to support one’s current self-identity, while recall of an inauthentic experience provides an opportunity to direct future behaviour towards a more authentic response. This study provides some of the first evidence for how autobiographical memories of being authentic or inauthentic may function in developing a coherent story of self that is needed for a sense of authenticity.

Autobiographical Memory and the Self-Concept

2020 ◽  
pp. 189-212
Author(s):  
Matthew D. Grilli ◽  
Lee Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Neural Mechanisms ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Autobiographical Memories ◽  
Core Self ◽  
Insight Into

Autobiographical memory plays a central role in one’s conceptualization of the self. It does so not only by storing the content of one’s life history, but also by providing the memories that are used to construct who we are and what we hope to become. Based on theories and evidence from cognitive neuroscience, the authors of this chapter discuss the contents and organization of autobiographical memory and the neural mechanisms that support the retrieval of autobiographical memories. They also cover core self-related functions served by this type of memory. The chapter closes by considering how the cognitive neuroscience of autobiographical memory and its self-related functions can provide insight into mechanisms of enduring change.

Social adjustment and self-esteem in remitted patients with mood disorders

1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Serretti ◽  
MC Cavallini ◽  
F Macciardi ◽  
C Namia ◽  
L Franchini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mood Disorder ◽  
Mood Disorders ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depressive Episodes ◽  
Social Adjustment Scale

SummaryMood disorders are characterized by manic and depressive episodes alternating with normal mood. While social function is heavily impaired during episodes of illness, there are conflicting opinions about inter-episode function. The present paper focuses on self-esteem and social adjustment in remitted mood disorders patients.Patients with mood disorders (99 bipolar and 86 major depressive subjects, in remission) were compared with a group of 100 control subjects. The self-esteem scale (SES) and the social adjustment scale (SAS) were used to measure self-esteem and social adjustment, respectively, in both groups of subjects.Patients with mood disorder exhibited worse social adjustment and lower self-esteem than control subjects.These results strongly confirm previous observations of poor inter-episode function in patients with mood disorder.

scholarly journals Remembering the self in schizophrenia

2012 ◽  
Vol 201 (6) ◽  
pp. 423-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Watson ◽  
Vicky Barker ◽  
Jeremy Hall ◽  
Stephen M. Lawrie
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
The Self ◽  
Autobiographical Memories

SummaryAutobiographical memories are a key component of our identity. Here, in the light of Cuervo-Lombard and colleagues' paper in this issue, we review impairments in autobiographical memory in schizophrenia and the association between autobiographical memory and outcome in the disorder. We also discuss whether these deficits are specific to schizophrenia and a possible link with traumatic events.

scholarly journals Makna Diri Penyandang Oligodaktili

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-46
Author(s):  
Sulaeman Sulaeman ◽  
Deddy Mulyana
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Symbolic Interaction ◽  
The Self ◽  
Normal Person ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Normal People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Village

Indonesia is a developing country, a population of more than a quarter of a billion people with a variety of health problems, including oligodactyly sufferers in the Village of Ulutaue, Bone Regency, South Sulawesi. They are different from normal people in the surrounding environment. The symbol "self-identity" is given by a normal person in everyday life. The purpose of this research is to find out and explain the self-meaning oligodactyly sufferers. The method of this research is communication phenomenology, examines the experiences with communication and interaction of natural oligodactyly on the surrounding environment. This research uses a qualitative approach based on the subjective interpretive techniques of data collection through interviews and participatory observations with complementary data based on the perspective of the social action and symbolic interaction. This research involves fifteen subjects with ten men and five women selected by purposive. The results of this research categories such as physical abnormalities and form a physical organ. The selfmeaning of physical abnormalities on the fingers, such as spirit-self, optimistic of abandonment, despair, closed, and lazy. The self-meaning of forms a physical organ with oligodactyly sufferers since birth, such as inflicting shame-self, deserve our pity, willpower hard work, patience, and a driving passion.

Writing/performing myself on-screen: Daniel Monks’ memory work on film

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerreen Ely-Harper
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Primary Site ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Processes

Performing memories is a way of working through and reconstructing the self. Films that draw on autobiographical experiences are a way of working through and constructing narratives of the self. How can memory work be applied to the writing and filmmaking process? Can memory work, with its focus on personal and embodied experience, lead us to a more truthful account of our individual histories and ourselves? In addressing these questions, I draw on sociological and memory studies into autobiographical memory in my examination of the screenwriting work of Australian actor/writer Daniel Monks. Monks’ films Marrow (2015) and Pulse (2017) are adapted and developed from the author’s personal memories and experiences. Identifying as disabled and queer, Monks’ work straddles the fact-fiction divide, enabling the social and personal to dynamically interact, producing drama narratives where the body is the primary site for retelling and sharing with an audience his need to be seen. My study includes original drafts of screenplays, produced films and interviews with Monks on his writing and development processes. Demonstrating how Monks uses and refigures his body within a cinematic landscape, I aim to promote discussion on how individual memories function as dynamic and interconnected sources for the screenwriter/filmmaker.

The quality of self, social, and directive memories

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 395-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Alea ◽  
Mary Jane Arneaud ◽  
Sideeka Ali
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Autobiographical Memories ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Directive Function ◽  
Middle Aged Adults

The quality of functional autobiographical memories was examined in young, middle-aged, and older adult Trinidadians ( N = 245). Participants wrote about an event that served a self, social, and directive function, and reported on the memory’s quality (e.g., significance, vividness, valence, etc.). Across age groups, directive memories were the most negative, and social function memories were the most positive. Social function memories were also talked about most. Compared to younger adults, older adults’ functional memories, regardless of the type of function, were positive and talked about often, and middle-aged adults’ memories were significant and vivid. The discussion encourages researchers to continue to simultaneously consider both why humans remember so much of their life, and what they remember when doing so.

scholarly journals Å Reise Nordover Eller Å Utfordre Det Norske: Ailo Gaups Trommereisen Og Helene Uris Rydde Ut

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-106
Author(s):  
Maria Sibińska
Keyword(s):  
Third Space ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
The Self ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Social ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Cultural Belonging

Abstract The article elucidates the presence of the Sami undercurrent in Norwegian literature. Proceeding from Elisabeth Oxfeldt’s theoretical work on the post-national and on the Bhabhanian concept third space, two novels are being discussed: Ailo Gaup’s Trommereisen (1988) and Helene Uri’s Rydde ut (2013). Gaup’s works constitute the first samic voice in Norwegian literature, which explicitly verbalizes the despair emanating from the loss of continuity as regards to the self-image and the self-identity of many samic individuals. Uri’s auto-fictional text combines family research with editing and correcting the nation’s biography. Emphasizing the novels employment of the travel north as a driving force behind the plot and as a metaphorical device, the author of the article interprets the novels as an expression of hope to transgress the social reality and re-establish the lost coherence of personal and national history either by means of shamanic knowledge and practice (Trommereisen) or by means of discursive practice (Rydde ut) that liberates the individual from rigid preconceptions regarding identity and cultural belonging.

scholarly journals KONSTRUKSI IDENTITAS DIRI TOKOH UTAMA DALAM NOVEL HEBI NI PIASU DAN HAIDORA KARYA KANEHARA HITOMI

ATAVISME ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-143
Author(s):  
Asri Rizki Friandini ◽  
Lina Meilinawati Rahayu ◽  
Amaliatun Saleha
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Identity Constructions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Construction Of Self

A person forms an identity not only from the influence of social environment, but also anxiety. This study aims to reveal the identity construction of the main characters in two Japanese novels entitled Hebi ni Piasu (2003) and Haidora (2007) by Kanehara Hitomi. These novels describe the construction of self identity which are represented through the body and fashion. The self identity constructions are influenced by social environment and anxiety. Moreover, in Japan, there is a term ikizurasa which is used to describe feelings of emptiness and isolation. This research used self identity theory and descriptive analysis method to analyse the data. The data in this research were obtained from two novels entitled Hebi ni Piasu (2003) and Haidora (2007). The results showed that the contruction of self identity of the main character was formed by the influence of the self and anxiety as well as the social environment. The two main characters showed that they used this construction of self identity to survive.

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