Examining the Life Script of African‐Americans: A Test of the Cultural Life Script

Coleman, Justin

doi:10.1002/acp.3000

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“…First, as predicted by the cultural life script theory (Berntsen & Rubin, 2004), and consistent with previous studies (Berntsen & Rubin, 2004;Bohn & Berntsen, 2011;Coleman, 2014;Erdoğan et al, 2008;see Janssen, Chessa, & Murre, 2005, for a review; Janssen & Haque, 2015;Janssen et al, 2014;Ottsen & Berntsen, 2014;Rubin et al, 2009;Tekcan et al, 2012; see also Zaragoza Scherman, 2013 for a review), it was possible to generate cultural life scripts of Mexico, Greenland, China, and Denmark within adult samples over 40 years of age, Notice: This is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Applied Research in Memory andCognition, 6, 60-73.…”

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Life Script Events and Autobiographical Memories of Important Life Story Events in Mexico, Greenland, China, and Denmark

Scherman¹,

Salgado²,

Shao³

et al. 2017

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

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1 This name uses Spanish naming customs; paternal last name is Zaragoza and maternal last name is Scherman. Please, use Zaragoza Scherman as the last name for citations. AbstractThe aim of this study was to test the cultural life script theory across four different cultures.We collected life scripts from 606 middle-aged and older adult participants in Mexico, Greenland, China, and Denmark, and examined whether key characteristics of life scripts generalize across these cultures. We also collected autobiographical memories of important personal events from the same participants, and coded them for their correspondence with the life scripts to establish whether the life script serves as a guide for autobiographical memory recall. Finally, we compared the life span distribution of life script events with that of the autobiographical memories. Consistent with predictions, a life script was found in all samples and the life span distribution of life script events tracked the life span distributions of personal autobiographical memories retrieved within the same cultures. These findings indicate a central interplay between cultural life scripts and autobiographical memory across disparate cultures.

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Life Script Events and Autobiographical Memories of Important Life Story Events in Mexico, Greenland, China, and Denmark

Scherman¹,

Salgado²,

Shao³

et al. 2017

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

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“…This distribution of events within the cultural life script has been replicated across different age groups (Bohn, 2010;Bohn & Berntsen, 2008;Janssen & Rubin, 2011;Tekcan, Kaya-Kızılöz, & Odaman, 2012) and in different cultures, despite cultural variations in the specific events mentioned (Clark & Dagett, 2015;Coleman, 2014;Erdogan, Baran, Avlar, Çağlar Taş, & Tekcan, 2008;Habermas, 2007;Haitagblu & Habermas, 2016;Janssen, Uemiya, & Naka, 2014;Ottsen & Berntsen, 2014;Rubin, Berntsen, & Hutson, 2009;Zaragoza Scherman, Saldago, Shao & Berntsen, 2017).…”

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Life happens when you are young: Reminiscence bump in cultural life scripts regardless of number of events elicited.

Bohn¹,

Koppel²,

Harris³

2017

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

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Cultural life scripts are representations of a prototypical life course within a culture, consisting of a shared understanding of culturally important transitional events and their timing (Berntsen & Rubin, 2004). Cultural life scripts contain a "bump" for events in early adulthood, mirroring the reminiscence bump in autobiographical memory (Rubin, Wetzler & Nebes, 1986). However, the bump in the life script might be due to the cultural life scripts methodology of generating only the seven most important events in a prototypical life, thus prioritizing early events. Here, we tested whether expanding the number of events would level the bump in the cultural life script. Four groups of 100 participants each generated a cultural life script with four, seven, 15 or 25 events.Across groups, there was a clear bump in early adulthood, showing that the bump in cultural life scripts is highly robust and not an artefact of methodology.

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“…We administered an online survey to participants from SurveyMonkey Audience, a proprietary panel of respondents from the diverse population of more than 30 million people who complete its surveys (Blodorn & O'Brien, 2013;Coleman, 2014;Hughes et al, 2014;Kavanaugh et al, 2013;Pickett et al, 2013;Schoettle & Sivak, 2014;Wiebe et al, 2013). SurveyMonkey regularly conducts benchmarking surveys to ensure Audience members are representative of the U.S. population.…”

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Young Adults’ Exposure to Alcohol- and Marijuana-Related Content on Twitter

Cabrera-Nguyen

Cavazos‐Rehg

Krauss

et al. 2016

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: Twitter is among the most popular social media platforms used by young adults, yet it has been underutilized in substance use research compared with older platforms (e.g., MySpace and Facebook). We took a first step toward studying the associations between exposure to pro-alcohol-and marijuana-related content among young adults via Twitter and current heavy episodic drinking and current marijuana use, respectively. Method: We conducted an online survey of 587 (254 men, 333 women) Twitter users between ages 18 and 25 years in February 2014 using an online survey system that has been previously used in research on health behaviors and attitudes.Results: Current heavy episodic drinking was significantly associated with higher levels of exposure to pro-alcohol content. Similarly, current marijuana use was significantly associated with higher levels of exposure to pro-marijuana content. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that in-depth research regarding young adults' exposure to pro-alcoholand marijuana-related content via Twitter may provide a foundation for developing effective prevention messages on this social media platform to counter the pro-alcohol and marijuana messages. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 77, 349-353, 2016)

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Examining the Life Script of African‐Americans: A Test of the Cultural Life Script

Cited by 26 publications

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Life Script Events and Autobiographical Memories of Important Life Story Events in Mexico, Greenland, China, and Denmark

Life Script Events and Autobiographical Memories of Important Life Story Events in Mexico, Greenland, China, and Denmark

Life happens when you are young: Reminiscence bump in cultural life scripts regardless of number of events elicited.

Young Adults’ Exposure to Alcohol- and Marijuana-Related Content on Twitter

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