Over 320,000 missing persons are estimated to go missing annually in United Kingdom due to a variety of intentional and unintentional factors. This article aims to investigate whether the criminal narrative experience framework can be applied to missing persons to acquire a deeper insight into the psychological differences between missing children. Sixty‐one previously missing persons completed a missing experience survey, narrative roles questionnaire, and emotions questionnaire. Data were content analysed and subjected to a non‐metric, multi‐dimensional scaling procedure in the form of smallest space analysis. The results identified four distinct behavioural themes as follows: depressed throwaway victim, distressed pushaway revenger, calm runaway professional and elated fallaway hero. Following a stringent criterion, 88.50% of the sample could be differentiated into one dominant behavioural theme with the remaining 11.50% identified as a hybrid theme. Due to the exploratory nature of the study, additional exploration of the applicability of the framework is required.

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将刑事叙事经验框架应用于失踪儿童

由于各种有意和无意因素，估计英国每年有320,000多人失踪。本文旨在调查刑事叙事经验框架是否可以应用于失踪人员，以更深入地了解失踪儿童之间的心理差异。先前有61位失踪人员完成了失踪经历调查，叙事角色问卷和情绪问卷。对数据进行内容分析，并以最小空间分析的形式进行非度量，多维缩放过程。结果确定了四个不同的行为主题，分别是：沮丧的失控受害者，苦恼的失控复仇者，镇定的职业失控者和兴高采烈的失落英雄。遵循严格的标准88。50％的样本可以区分为一个主要的行为主题，其余11.50％被确定为混合主题。由于研究具有探索性，因此需要对框架的适用性进行其他探索。