Benchmarking the past: Children's early memories and maternal reminiscing as a function of family structure.

Artioli, Federica; Reese, Elaine; Hayne, Harlene

doi:10.1016/j.jarmac.2015.04.002

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“…There is also some evidence that earlier childhood memories are reported by individuals for whom early parental separation was particularly painful (Artioli & Reese, 2014; Artioli, Reese, & Hayne, 2015). For example, Artioli and Reese (2014) assessed the earliest memories of young adult New Zealanders from families with separated parents; those for whom the separation occurred when the children were very young (<7 years of age) also had earlier memories than did those whose parents separated later.…”

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When was your earliest dream? Association of very early dream recall with frequent current nightmares supports a stress-acceleration explanation of nightmares.

Nielsen¹

2017

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The stress-acceleration hypothesis of nightmares (Nielsen, 2017) stipulates that individuals with frequent nightmares have better access to memories-including dreams-originating in the infantile amnesia period than do individuals without nightmares. This was tested on an available sample of 17,014 participants who estimated their current nightmare frequency and dated their earliest remembered dreams. One-way analyses of variance with 10 levels of Dream-Age (1-10 years) as independent variable and log nightmare recall as the dependent measure were computed for all early dreams combined and, separately, for those who remembered only positive or negative early dreams. An earliest dream from the infantile amnesia period was recalled by 4.63% of participants. A main effect for Dream-Age (p Ͻ .0000001) confirmed that these participants had more current nightmares. The effect was also seen for both emotionally positive and negative early dreams, suggesting a general change in early memory access. Four themes accounted for most (40.2%) of the earliest dreams recalled-being chased (14.0%), falling (11.4%), flying (9.4%), and encountering an evil force (5.3%)-and were interpretable as consistent with Freud's claim that such dreams arise from early infantile experiences. Results support the stress-acceleration hypothesis of nightmares, which stipulates that a foreshortening of the infantile amnesia period contributes to nightmares by increasing access to intense primordial feelings and memory fragments that are normally forgotten because of infantile amnesia processes.

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When was your earliest dream? Association of very early dream recall with frequent current nightmares supports a stress-acceleration explanation of nightmares.

Nielsen¹

2017

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“…In terms of other structural variables, mothers with less than a high school diploma seem to be less elaborative during reminiscing than mothers with at least a high school diploma, but college experience does not seem to add additional prediction (Raikes & Thompson, 2008). One study found that mothers who are rearing children alone also seem to be less elaborative during reminiscing than mothers who are partnered (Artioli et al, 2015). Overall, whereas child characteristics related to maternal reminiscing style have been heavily researched, maternal characteristics simply have not, and much about maternal factors that predict or are related to reminiscing style remains to be discovered.…”

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Autobiographical Memory and Narrative in Childhood

Fıvush

2022

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This Element delineates how the narrative expression of autobiographical memory develops through everyday interactions that frame the forms and functions of autobiographical remembering. Narratives are both outward and inward facing, providing the interface between how we perceive the world and how we perceive ourselves. Thus narratives are the pivot point where self and culture meet. To make this argument, the author brings together literature from multiple perspectives, including cognitive, personality, evolutionary, cultural, and developmental psychology. To fully understand autobiographical memory, it must be understood how it functions in the context of lives lived in complex sociocultural contexts.

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“…Mothers who have received more years of education appear to be more likely to adopt an elaborative style of reminiscing (Artioli et al, 2015; Reese & Newcombe, 2007). Existing research mostly comprises middle-class educated samples, so less is known about how elaboration style relates to SES and other demographic variables in more diverse samples (Wu & Jobson, 2019).…”

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Maternal reminiscing during middle childhood: Associations with maternal personality and child temperament from the Growing Up in New Zealand cohort study.

Swearingen,

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Garnett

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Developmental Psychology

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The way that mothers talk about the past (reminisce) with young children is linked to key memory, language, and socioemotional outcomes. The present research explored the role of a range of child, maternal, socioeconomic, and cultural factors that predict maternal reminiscing style, with a particular focus on maternal personality and child temperament. A total of 1,404 mother-child dyads from the prebirth longitudinal cohort study Growing Up in New Zealand (https://www.growingup.co.nz) participated in a reminiscing task about a negative event when children were 8 years old. This broader cohort is broadly representative of the New Zealand population in terms of maternal ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Conversations were scored using a revised version of the Elaborative Reminiscing Scale. Child temperament during infancy, but not childhood, uniquely predicted maternal reminiscing style. Maternal extraversion also predicted a more elaborative reminiscing style. Other maternal factors, including education, ethnicity, and age, were also identified as unique predictors of maternal reminiscing style. These findings fit well with an ecological systems view of maternal reminiscing as a function of child, maternal, and cultural factors. Public Significance StatementThese findings suggest that mothers differ in their style of reminiscing with their children based on a number of individual and sociocultural factors, including the mother's personality and the child's temperament. Further research on the directionality of the relationship between reminiscing and child temperament may inform the development of reminiscing coaching programs for parents.

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Benchmarking the past: Children's early memories and maternal reminiscing as a function of family structure.

Cited by 43 publications

References 47 publications

When was your earliest dream? Association of very early dream recall with frequent current nightmares supports a stress-acceleration explanation of nightmares.

When was your earliest dream? Association of very early dream recall with frequent current nightmares supports a stress-acceleration explanation of nightmares.

Autobiographical Memory and Narrative in Childhood

Maternal reminiscing during middle childhood: Associations with maternal personality and child temperament from the Growing Up in New Zealand cohort study.

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