Dorthe Berntsen

TL;DR: A new scale that measures how central an event is to a person's identity and life story, the Centrality of Event Scale (CES), is introduced and correlates with PTSD symptom severity and depression.

TL;DR: Three classes of evidence demonstrate the existence of life scripts, or culturally shared representations of the timing of major transitional life events, and provide an alternative explanation of the reminiscence bump.

TL;DR: In the mnemonic model of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the current memory of a negative event, not the event itself, determines symptoms as discussed by the authors, which is an alternative to the current event-based etiology of PTSD represented in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text rev.; American Psychiatric Association, 2000).

TL;DR: The Centrality of Event Scale (CES) as discussed by the authors measures the extent to which a traumatic memory forms a central component of personal identity, a turning point in the life story and a reference point for everyday inferences.

TL;DR: In this article, a sample of 1,241 respondents between 20 and 93 years old were asked their age in their happiest, saddest, most traumatic, most important memory, and most recent involuntary memory.