The Relationship Between One's Description of Own Change and Recollections:

A Longitudinal Analysis from Their Twenties to Thirties

Abstract

　This article was analyzed based on 20 females' longitudinal data which were gathered at 4 time points from their twenties to thirties and were consisted of their descriptions of their own change and questionnaire about IWM on each time point and their retrospective narrative in interview in their thirties. The purpose is to examine 1) the relationship between the change of IWM scores and the change of affirmative degree of recollections of corresponding time, and 2) the relationship between description of own change on those days and the change which was extracted from retrospective narrative in their thirties.

　The results were as follows; 1) there were relationship between the change of IWM scores and the type of description of their own change(whether positive or negative), 2) correspondence was not high between the type of description of own change on those days and the type of change through recollections of corresponding time in their thirties, 3) as to contents of change, there were some who have consistency and their own theme, and some who don't. There were some whose present theme effects the content of change in past.