TY  - JOUR
A1  - Habermas, Tilmann
A1  - Delarue, Iris
A1  - Eiswirth, Pia
A1  - Glanz, Sarah
A1  - Krämer, Christin
A1  - Landertinger, Axel
A1  - Krainhöfner, Michelle
A1  - Batista, João
A1  - Gonçalves, Miguel M.
T1  - Differences between subclinical ruminators and reflectors in narrating autobiographical memories : innovative moments and autobiographical reasoning
T2  - Frontiers in psychology
N2  - Reasoning may help solving problems and understanding personal experiences. Ruminative reasoning, however, is inconclusive, repetitive, and usually regards negative thoughts. We asked how reasoning as manifested in oral autobiographical narratives might differ when it is ruminative versus when it is adaptive by comparing two constructs from the fields of psychotherapy research and narrative research that are potentially beneficial: innovative moments (IMs) and autobiographical reasoning (AR). IMs captures statements in that elaborate on changes regarding an earlier personal previous problem of the narrator, and AR capture the connecting of past events with other parts of the narrator’s life or enduring aspects of the narrator. A total of N = 94 university students had been selected from 492 students to differ maximally on trait rumination and trait adaptive reflection, and were grouped as ruminators (N = 38), reflectors (N = 37), and a group with little ruminative and reflective tendencies (“unconcerned,” N = 19). Participants narrated three negative personal experiences (disappointing oneself, harming someone, and being rejected) and two self-related experiences of more mixed valence (turning point and lesson learnt). Reflectors used more IMs and more negative than positive autobiographical arguments (AAs), but not more overall AAs than ruminators. Group differences were not moderated by the valence of memories, and groups did not differ in the positive effect of narrating on mood. Trait depression/anxiety was predicted negatively by IMs and positively by AAs. Thus, IMs are typical for reflectors but not ruminators, whereas the construct of AR appears to capture reasoning processes irrespective of their ruminative versus adaptive uses.
KW  - innovative moments
KW  - autobiographical reasoning
KW  - rumination
KW  - autobiographical memory
KW  - narrative
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/61084
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-610845
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 12
IS  - art. 624644
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -