The ability to mentally project oneself into the past and future is theoretically central to perception of a salient and cohesive narrative identity. Despite these theorized links, to date, the relationship between time perspective and narrative identity has not been empirically studied. We examined the association between these constructs in a sample of 212 participants (Mage = 28.3 years, SD = 10.9) who completed the Balanced Time Perspective Scale and the Awareness of Narrative Identity Questionnaire (ANIQ). Congruent with our hypotheses, stronger past perspective and a bias for past perspective over future were associated with a stronger awareness of having a narrative identity and the perception of temporal, causal, and thematic coherency of past experiences. When the past and future time perspective scales were examined together as predictors of the ANIQ subscales, past time perspective emerged as a significant predictor of stronger awareness of a narrative identity through dimensions of perceived coherence of past experiences, whereas future time perspective was a weak, direct predictor of lower awareness. The findings indicate that individual differences in time perspective, and in particular a bias for past time perspective, are associated with a potentially more adaptive perception of narrative identity.

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时间视角，叙事身份意识以及成年人过去经历的感知连贯性

从理论上说，将自己的思想投射到过去和未来的能力对于感知突出而具有凝聚力的叙事身份至关重要。尽管有这些理论上的联系，但迄今为止，尚未对时间观点与叙事身份之间的关系进行实证研究。我们在完成平衡时间视角量表和叙事身份问卷（ANIQ）的212名参与者（法师= 28.3年，SD = 10.9）的样本中检查了这些构造之间的关联。与我们的假设相一致，更强的过去视角和对未来的偏见与对叙事身份的更强意识以及对过去经验的时间，因果和主题连贯性的感知有关。当将过去和未来时间视角量表作为ANIQ子量表的预测因素一起进行检查时，过去时间视角成为通过感知过去经验的连贯性维度来增强对叙事身份意识的重要预测因素，而未来时间角度则较弱，较低意识的直接预测者。研究结果表明，时间观点的个体差异，尤其是过去时间观点的偏见，与叙事身份的潜在适应性感知有关。