RECOLLECTING AND REFLECTING: STORY ASIDES IN YOUNG AND OLDER ADULTS’ AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STORIES
Teagan McCune, Nicole Alea · 2024
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Teagan McCune and Nicole Alea published a study in 2024 on story asides in the autobiographical stories that young and older adults tell. Asides are pieces of tangentially related information that add context, such as knowledge about the world or about the storyteller. Older adults include asides more frequently than young adults, but the reason was unclear.
The researchers asked sixty-one young adults and thirty-five older adults to tell a story about the same kind of event, a positive vacation. Each participant then rated how strongly they relived the event and how much they had reflected on its significance. Age was associated with more asides, stronger reliving, and more reflection. The two ratings, however, did not explain the asides, and no pathway through them appeared. The authors conclude that the source of the age difference must lie in some other aspect of how stories are told.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Teagan McCune, Nicole Alea |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |