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2000年12月11日
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It may be good for your health to let bygones be bygones. New research suggests that people who bring closure to past events enjoy a better self-image and physical health.
``It's important to get closure on things that happen to you,'' according to Denise Beike, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. ``If you fail to do this, you run the risk of decreasing your sense of self-worth'' and perhaps your physical health as well, she told Reuters Health in an interview.
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People tend to group memories into two types, Beike explained. Closed memories involve events that people have resolved or put behind them. In contrast, open memories include unresolved events that continue to play a role in a person's life.
In the first of two studies on open and closed memories, Beike divided 50 college students into two groups. She asked one group to describe an open memory and the other to describe a closed memory. Then each group looked at a list of terms and picked out words that described themselves.
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Beike found that students who remembered closed memories selected more positive terms than students who described memories that were still unresolved. She suspects that the accomplishment of bringing closure to an event may make people have more confidence in themselves.
In another study, Beike asked 400 students whether they had ever experienced a traumatic event, such as the death of a close friend or relative, rape, incest, a home fire or a painful break-up.
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The investigator found that students who had open memories of traumatic events scored lower on questionnaires measuring self-confidence than students with closed memories of traumatic events or students who had never experienced trauma. Students with open memories also reported more trips to the doctor.
But Beike said the research is not meant to make people feel guilty about not bringing closure to certain events. Some things are easier to leave behind than others, she noted.
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``There are some things you can't put behind you,'' she stated.
For example, breaking a leg is a pretty big deal, but once it heals, most people can put the event in the past without any problems, Beike explained. But if a traumatic event is more serious, such as a head injury that prevents a person from working, an individual's entire world changes, and it is more difficult to move on with life, according to the Arkansas researcher.
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Beike said that the next step, which will not be easy, is to understand how people put things in the past.
But bringing closure to a past event does not necessarily mean that you have to be brutally honest with yourself. Beike said that people often remember events somewhat differently than how they actually happened. Making a few changes may help lay a past event to rest, she said.
``We sort of tweak things in our memory,'' Beike said. ``The suspicion is that this adapting process is really good for you.'', 百拇医药
``It's important to get closure on things that happen to you,'' according to Denise Beike, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. ``If you fail to do this, you run the risk of decreasing your sense of self-worth'' and perhaps your physical health as well, she told Reuters Health in an interview.
, 百拇医药
People tend to group memories into two types, Beike explained. Closed memories involve events that people have resolved or put behind them. In contrast, open memories include unresolved events that continue to play a role in a person's life.
In the first of two studies on open and closed memories, Beike divided 50 college students into two groups. She asked one group to describe an open memory and the other to describe a closed memory. Then each group looked at a list of terms and picked out words that described themselves.
, 百拇医药
Beike found that students who remembered closed memories selected more positive terms than students who described memories that were still unresolved. She suspects that the accomplishment of bringing closure to an event may make people have more confidence in themselves.
In another study, Beike asked 400 students whether they had ever experienced a traumatic event, such as the death of a close friend or relative, rape, incest, a home fire or a painful break-up.
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The investigator found that students who had open memories of traumatic events scored lower on questionnaires measuring self-confidence than students with closed memories of traumatic events or students who had never experienced trauma. Students with open memories also reported more trips to the doctor.
But Beike said the research is not meant to make people feel guilty about not bringing closure to certain events. Some things are easier to leave behind than others, she noted.
, 百拇医药
``There are some things you can't put behind you,'' she stated.
For example, breaking a leg is a pretty big deal, but once it heals, most people can put the event in the past without any problems, Beike explained. But if a traumatic event is more serious, such as a head injury that prevents a person from working, an individual's entire world changes, and it is more difficult to move on with life, according to the Arkansas researcher.
, 百拇医药
Beike said that the next step, which will not be easy, is to understand how people put things in the past.
But bringing closure to a past event does not necessarily mean that you have to be brutally honest with yourself. Beike said that people often remember events somewhat differently than how they actually happened. Making a few changes may help lay a past event to rest, she said.
``We sort of tweak things in our memory,'' Beike said. ``The suspicion is that this adapting process is really good for you.'', 百拇医药