Abstract
Autobiographical memory is memory on personal experience which has an important meaning to self. That includes not only information about self but also episodic information on time and place of events (Conway& Pleydell-Pearce,2000). In order to make clear the relationship between autobiographical memory and self in Japanese young people, we examined emotional and constructive aspects of autobiographical memory, using cued-recall method with event-category words. The results showed that emotional and constructive contents were different among five types of events. First of all, the feelings about “School events” tended to change from negative to positive ones over time. Second, young people recalled ”Failure events” more often than the others. Third, they tended to feel more gratitude toward“Success/achievement events” than to the others. The findings may indicate that young people regard these event(“School events”, “Failure events” and “Success/achievement events”) more important to themselves than the other types of events.
