This article examines the hypothesis that the dialogical integration of life experiences is related to successful aging. Life story interviews with 93 older Czech adults were sorted into categories characterized by specific patterns of life experience integration: (i) without dialogical processes, (ii) with differentiated I-positions, (iii) with dialogical relationships, (iv) partially integrated, and (v) completely integrated. The results indicated that the categories were ordered, yielding low-level correlations with scales of successful aging in predicted directions. A comparison of the categories revealed that they were related to successful aging in a cumulative way, starting with the most essential indicator (lower scores of rumination) in the participants who had developed at least dialogical relationships, continuing to higher well-being linked with partial integration, and ending with an advanced indicator (optimism toward future) linked with complete integration. These relationships were summarized in a hypothetical model that is open to further examination.

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生活经历与成功老龄化的对话整合。

本文检验了生活经历的对话整合与成功老龄化有关的假设。对 93 名捷克老年人的生活故事访谈被分类为具有特定生活经验整合模式的类别：(i) 没有对话过程，(ii) 具有不同的 I 位置，(iii) 有对话关系，(iv) 部分整合， (v) 完全整合。结果表明，这些类别是有序的，在预测的方向上与成功老化的尺度产生低水平的相关性。对这些类别的比较表明，它们以累积方式与成功老化有关，从最重要的指标（较低的沉思分数）开始，参与者至少建立了对话关系，继续获得与部分整合相关的更高福祉，并以与完全整合相关的高级指标（对未来的乐观）结束。这些关系在一个假设模型中进行了总结，该模型有待进一步研究。