The Utility of the Self-Other Narrative Evaluation Scale (SONES) for Assessing Internal Representations in Interpersonal Narratives

Many psychoanalytically informed theories (e.g., attachment theory, object relations theory) view internal representations for self and others as key personality components. Systems for assessing internal representations using narratives often rely on expert raters. Respondents do not typically provide ratings for their own narratives. This article introduces the Self-Other Narrative Evaluation Scale (SONES), which elicits respondent ratings for how they feel interpersonal events in a narrative impacted their representations of self and others. The purpose of this article is to explore the psychometric adequacy, convergent validity, and construct validity of this newly created scale. In two studies, participants provided autobiographical narratives of interpersonal interactions and rated them with the SONES. Experts independently rated all narratives with the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global Rating Method. Participants also rated their dispositional subjective well-being, self-esteem, and interpersonal problems. SONES scales were internally consistent; converged with the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global Rating Method Affective-Relational factor and Self factor; were related to narratives' emotional tone ratings; and were associated with dispositional ratings of self-esteem, subjective well-being, and interpersonal problems. Overall, the findings provide preliminary support for the validity and utility of the SONES. Implications of the study are described, limitations are noted, and future directions for studying the SONES are suggested. 许多精神分析理论(如依恋理论;客体关系理论)将自我和他人的内在表征视为关键的人格组成部分。使用叙事来评估内在表征的体系通常依赖于专家评估员。受访者通常不会为自己的叙事提供评级。本文介绍了自我-他人叙事评估量表(SONES),该量表引出受访者对叙事中人际事件如何影响他们对自我和他人的表征的评分。本文旨在探讨这一新创建的量表的心理测量充分性、同证效度和结构效度。在两项研究中,参与者提供了人际互动的自传叙述,并将其用SONES进行了评分。专家们使用社会认知和客体关系量表--全球评级方法(SCORS-G),独立地对所有叙述进行了评分。参与者还评估了他们的性格主观幸福感、自尊和人际关系问题。SONES量表是内在一致的,与SCORS-G情感关系因素和自我因素G同证,与叙述的情绪基调评级有关,并与自尊、主观幸福感和人际问题的性格评级有关。总体而言,研究结果为SONES的效度和效用提供了初步支持。本文描述了该研究的含义,指出了局限性,并提出了研究SONES的未来方向。