ABSTRACT ‘Self-continuity,’ or ‘continuous identity’ is the sense of cross-temporal persistence of identity and is associated with positive mood and decreased suicidality. Few studies have examined whether self-continuity is affected by reviewing cross-temporal patterns of personality traits and if increasing self-continuity improves subjective well-being. Study 1 examined the effects of writing about patterns of cross-temporal personality traits and found that this led to increased future self-continuity and reported life satisfaction. Study 2 examined the effects of a structured interview about cross-temporal personality traits and visualizing past/future selves and found that this led to increased future self-continuity, satisfaction with life, positive mood, and less deterioration in self-esteem after an impossible anagram task. These results suggest that increasing self-continuity may improve psychological health and well-being by increasing identity stability.

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实验性地增加自我连续性改善主观幸福感并防止自尊心因自我泄气任务而恶化

摘要“自我连续性”或“连续身份”是身份的跨时间持久感，与积极情绪和自杀倾向降低有关。很少有研究通过回顾人格特征的跨时间模式来检查自我延续性是否受到影响，以及增加自我延续性是否会改善主观幸福感。研究 1 检查了关于跨时间人格特征模式的写作效果，发现这会增加未来的自我连续性并报告生活满意度。研究 2 检查了结构化访谈关于跨时间人格特征和想象过去/未来的自我的效果，发现这会增加未来的自我延续性、对生活的满意度、积极的情绪，以及在不可能的事情后自尊的恶化程度降低字谜任务。