Responses to trauma can involve complex meaning-making processes and the perception of ambiguous threats. This study sought to explore response trajectories to a nuclear disaster and their intertwining courses with ecological factors (Trajectories intertwining with Life—TiL) from adolescence onward among a non-evacuated population. Four women and four men (mean age 20) who were adolescents during the 2011 nuclear accident in Fukushima (mean age 14), and who grew up outside the restricted zone participated in the study. Semi-structured life story interviews were conducted in the form of in-depth qualitative inquiries. A holistic analysis was employed to identify the TiL patterns following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in the overall context of the stories and to reveal important themes throughout adolescence. Four TiL patterns were found: three trajectories corresponding with those identified in prior research and one newly identified trajectory. The perceived, distal, and continuous threat of radiation played a central role in all patterns and exerted secondary impacts throughout the lives of non-evacuated adolescents. The study’s implications shed light on rarely studied response trajectories to ambiguous Potentially Traumatic Events (PTEs) throughout adolescence and point out the benefits of using a life story approach to this end for the first time.

对创伤的反应可能涉及复杂的意义制定过程和对模棱两可的威胁的感知。本研究旨在探索从青春期开始在非疏散人群中对核灾难的响应轨迹及其与生态因素（Trajectories intertwining with Life-TiL）的交织过程。2011 年福岛核事故期间的青少年（平均年龄 14 岁）和在禁区外长大的四名女性和四名男性（平均年龄 20 岁）参与了这项研究。半结构化的生活故事访谈以深入的定性调查的形式进行。我们采用整体分析来确定福岛核灾难后故事的整体背景下的 TiL 模式，并揭示整个青春期的重要主题。发现了四种 TiL 模式：三个轨迹对应于先前研究中确定的轨迹和一个新确定的轨迹。感知到的、远端的和持续的辐射威胁在所有模式中都发挥了核心作用，并在未撤离的青少年的整个生命中产生了次要影响。该研究的意义揭示了很少研究的对整个青春期模棱两可的潜在创伤事件 (PTE) 的反应轨迹，并首次指出了为此目的使用生活故事方法的好处。