Life stories organize personal experiences within broad temporal frameworks. Stories that are redemptive in nature progress from negative beginnings to positive endings. Psychologists have become increasingly interested in the tendency for individuals to both understand their lives using story-based principles and evoke redemptive imagery while so doing. Here, I consider the past (foundations), present (extant literature), and future (directions and controversies) of psychology’s redemptive story. Previously, work on redemptive stories has been informed by several theoretical vantages and analytic approaches. Currently, a sizable literature has emerged examining redemptive stories in relation to a number of processes and outcomes. In future, it will be crucial to explore moderations in these relations as well as redemption’s causal nature.

生活故事会在广泛的时间框架内组织个人经历。救赎的故事本质上是从消极的开始到积极的结局。心理学家对人们越来越倾向于使用基于故事的原则来理解自己的生活并在此过程中唤起救赎意象的趋势越来越感兴趣。在这里，我考虑心理学的救赎故事的过去（基础），现在（现有文献）和未来（方向和争议）。以前，有关赎回故事的工作已通过多种理论优势和分析方法获得了信息。当前，涌现了大量文献来研究与许多过程和结果有关的救赎故事。将来，探索这些关系中的节制以及救赎的因果关系至关重要。