This study tests whether developments in self-knowledge and autobiographical memory across early to late childhood are related. Self-descriptions and autobiographical memory reports were collected from 379 three- to eleven-year-old predominantly white Scottish children, M_age = 90.3 months, SD = 31.1, 54% female. Episodic memory was measured in an enactment task involving recall and source monitoring of performed and witnessed actions. The volume and complexity of self-knowledge and autobiographical memory reports increased with age, as did source monitoring ability and recall bias for own actions. Regression analyses and structural equation modeling confirmed a close association between these developments. These results inform our theoretical understanding of the development of the self-memory system in childhood, which may contribute to the gradual offset of childhood amnesia.

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自我记忆系统：探索儿童早期到晚期自我与记忆之间的发展联系


本研究测试了童年早期到晚期自我知识和自传体记忆的发展是否相关。从 379 名 3 至 11 岁以白人为主的苏格兰儿童中收集了自我描述和自传体记忆报告，M_年龄 = 90.3 个月，SD = 31.1,54% 为女性。情景记忆是在涉及执行和目击动作的回忆和来源监控的制定任务中测量的。自我知识和自传体记忆报告的数量和复杂性随着年龄的增长而增加，来源监测能力和对自身行为的回忆偏差也随之增加。回归分析和结构方程模型证实了这些发展之间的密切关联。这些结果为我们对儿童期自我记忆系统发展的理论理解提供了信息，这可能有助于逐渐抵消儿童遗忘症。