We examined patterns of psychophysiological arousal related to remembering and narrating distressing events, as compared to arousal while engaged in positive and neutral recall tasks. Narrating distressing events entailed increased arousal relative to remembering those events. Analyses of combined data showed that aggregate arousal during narration was related to post-narration reports of distress and self-perceptions. These results support conceptions of narration as an effortful form of regulation, and suggest insights about the process through which narrative construction may promote psychological and physiological benefits.

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叙述痛苦经历的心理生理学

我们检查了与记忆和叙述痛苦事件相关的心理生理唤醒模式，与从事积极和中性回忆任务时的唤醒相比。相对于记住这些事件，叙述令人痛苦的事件需要更多的唤醒。对组合数据的分析表明，叙述过程中的总体唤醒与痛苦和自我感知的叙述后报告有关。这些结果支持将叙事作为一种努力的调节形式的概念，并提出了关于叙事构建可以促进心理和生理益处的过程的见解。