对过去糊涂一些有益健康
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2001年3月1日
路透社纽约健康消息 过去的事就让它过去吧，这也许对你的健康会有好处，因为新研究发现，不爱追究过去事情的人会有较好的自我形像，而且身体更加健康。如果你对过去的事情老是念念不忘，你就会有自我价值降低的危险。
人们倾向于把记忆分成两种类型，即关闭性记忆和开放性记忆。前者包括已经解决或置之脑后的事情，后者是仍在影响一个人日常生活的未解决的事情。
在一项研究中，研究员将50名大学生分成2组，让其中一组描述一件开放性记忆事件而另一组描述一件关闭性记忆事件，然后两组学生在一张术语表中选出最能描述自己的词汇。结果发现，回忆关闭性记忆事件的学生比回忆开放性记忆事件的学生更多地选择了正面的词汇。研究人员由此得出结论：成功地关闭对某一事件的记忆可以让人更有自信。
在另一项研究中，研究人员调查了400名学生，询问他们是否经受过创伤，如亲密的朋友或亲人的死亡、强奸、乱伦、火灾或痛苦的分离等。研究者发现，对创伤经历持开放性记忆的学生比持关闭性记忆或从未受过创伤的学生在自信测试中得分要低，而且持开放性记忆的学生比持关闭性记忆或从未受过创伤的学生更经常去看医生。
, 百拇医药
生活中有些事情比较容易遗忘，有些则很难。比如说，腿部骨折这样的大事情，一旦腿伤愈合，大多数人会将这件事忘掉。但是如果是更严重的创伤事件，如头部外伤并且因此影响了一个人的工作，或他的生存世界完全改变了，这样的事情就很难从他的生活中抹去。
研究者说，忘记过去并不意味着你必须对自己过于认真。事实上人们都倾向部份地扭曲对某些件事的记忆，他们的记忆往往是跟事实有些不同的。这是一个有益的适应过程，对既往的记忆做一些“修改”更有助于忘掉它。下一步的研究将是要弄清人们怎样将一件事置诸脑后的。
Putting Problems Behind You Helps Physical Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It may be good for your health to let bygones be bygones. New research suggests that people who bring closure to past events enjoy a better self-image and physical health.
, 百拇医药
``It‘s important to get closure on things that happen to you,‘‘ according to Denise Beike, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. ``If you fail to do this, you run the risk of decreasing your sense of self-worth‘‘ and perhaps your physical health as well, she told Reuters Health in an interview.
People tend to group memories into two types, Beike explained. Closed memories involve events that people have resolved or put behind them. In contrast, open memories include unresolved events that continue to play a role in a person‘s life.
, 百拇医药
In the first of two studies on open and closed memories, Beike divided 50 college students into two groups. She asked one group to describe an open memory and the other to describe a closed memory. Then each group looked at a list of terms and picked out words that described themselves.
Beike found that students who remembered closed memories selected more positive terms than students who described memories that were still unresolved. She suspects that the accomplishment of bringing closure to an event may make people have more confidence in themselves.
, 百拇医药
In another study, Beike asked 400 students whether they had ever experienced a traumatic event, such as the death of a close friend or relative, rape, incest, a home fire or a painful break-up.
The investigator found that students who had open memories of traumatic
events scored lower on questionnaires measuring self-confidence than students with closed memories of traumatic events or students who had never experienced trauma. Students with open memories also reported more trips to the doctor.
, 百拇医药
But Beike said the research is not meant to make people feel guilty about not bringing closure to certain events. Some things are easier to leave behind than others, she noted.
``There are some things you can‘t put behind you,‘‘ she stated.
For example, breaking a leg is a pretty big deal, but once it heals, most people can put the event in the past without any problems, Beike explained. But if a traumatic event is more serious, such as a head injury that prevents a person from working, an individual‘s entire world changes, and it is more difficult to move on with life, according to the Arkansas researcher.
, 百拇医药
Beike said that the next step, which will not be easy, is to understand how people put things in the past.
But bringing closure to a past event does not necessarily mean that you
have to be brutally honest with yourself. Beike said that people often remember events somewhat differently than how they actually happened. Making a few changes may help lay a past event to rest, she said.
``We sort of tweak things in our memory,‘‘ Beike said. ``The suspicion is that this adapting process is really good for you.‘‘, 百拇医药
人们倾向于把记忆分成两种类型，即关闭性记忆和开放性记忆。前者包括已经解决或置之脑后的事情，后者是仍在影响一个人日常生活的未解决的事情。
在一项研究中，研究员将50名大学生分成2组，让其中一组描述一件开放性记忆事件而另一组描述一件关闭性记忆事件，然后两组学生在一张术语表中选出最能描述自己的词汇。结果发现，回忆关闭性记忆事件的学生比回忆开放性记忆事件的学生更多地选择了正面的词汇。研究人员由此得出结论：成功地关闭对某一事件的记忆可以让人更有自信。
在另一项研究中，研究人员调查了400名学生，询问他们是否经受过创伤，如亲密的朋友或亲人的死亡、强奸、乱伦、火灾或痛苦的分离等。研究者发现，对创伤经历持开放性记忆的学生比持关闭性记忆或从未受过创伤的学生在自信测试中得分要低，而且持开放性记忆的学生比持关闭性记忆或从未受过创伤的学生更经常去看医生。
, 百拇医药
生活中有些事情比较容易遗忘，有些则很难。比如说，腿部骨折这样的大事情，一旦腿伤愈合，大多数人会将这件事忘掉。但是如果是更严重的创伤事件，如头部外伤并且因此影响了一个人的工作，或他的生存世界完全改变了，这样的事情就很难从他的生活中抹去。
研究者说，忘记过去并不意味着你必须对自己过于认真。事实上人们都倾向部份地扭曲对某些件事的记忆，他们的记忆往往是跟事实有些不同的。这是一个有益的适应过程，对既往的记忆做一些“修改”更有助于忘掉它。下一步的研究将是要弄清人们怎样将一件事置诸脑后的。
Putting Problems Behind You Helps Physical Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It may be good for your health to let bygones be bygones. New research suggests that people who bring closure to past events enjoy a better self-image and physical health.
, 百拇医药
``It‘s important to get closure on things that happen to you,‘‘ according to Denise Beike, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. ``If you fail to do this, you run the risk of decreasing your sense of self-worth‘‘ and perhaps your physical health as well, she told Reuters Health in an interview.
People tend to group memories into two types, Beike explained. Closed memories involve events that people have resolved or put behind them. In contrast, open memories include unresolved events that continue to play a role in a person‘s life.
, 百拇医药
In the first of two studies on open and closed memories, Beike divided 50 college students into two groups. She asked one group to describe an open memory and the other to describe a closed memory. Then each group looked at a list of terms and picked out words that described themselves.
Beike found that students who remembered closed memories selected more positive terms than students who described memories that were still unresolved. She suspects that the accomplishment of bringing closure to an event may make people have more confidence in themselves.
, 百拇医药
In another study, Beike asked 400 students whether they had ever experienced a traumatic event, such as the death of a close friend or relative, rape, incest, a home fire or a painful break-up.
The investigator found that students who had open memories of traumatic
events scored lower on questionnaires measuring self-confidence than students with closed memories of traumatic events or students who had never experienced trauma. Students with open memories also reported more trips to the doctor.
, 百拇医药
But Beike said the research is not meant to make people feel guilty about not bringing closure to certain events. Some things are easier to leave behind than others, she noted.
``There are some things you can‘t put behind you,‘‘ she stated.
For example, breaking a leg is a pretty big deal, but once it heals, most people can put the event in the past without any problems, Beike explained. But if a traumatic event is more serious, such as a head injury that prevents a person from working, an individual‘s entire world changes, and it is more difficult to move on with life, according to the Arkansas researcher.
, 百拇医药
Beike said that the next step, which will not be easy, is to understand how people put things in the past.
But bringing closure to a past event does not necessarily mean that you
have to be brutally honest with yourself. Beike said that people often remember events somewhat differently than how they actually happened. Making a few changes may help lay a past event to rest, she said.
``We sort of tweak things in our memory,‘‘ Beike said. ``The suspicion is that this adapting process is really good for you.‘‘, 百拇医药