The effects of narrative framing of own broken love on understanding the past and imagining the future in close relationships

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dc.abstract.enThe dataset originates from a two-stage experimental study examining the effects of narrative framing of one’s past romantic relationship on thinking about the past relationship and future in close relationships. Participants were women aged 18–30 after a breakup (N = 422), randomly assigned to the narrative set (writing a self-story of broken love) or the control set (answering open questions about the past relationship). Stage 1 included the pretest and experimental manipulation; Stage 2 (after approximately one week) involved follow-up self-reports (including declared breakup understanding) and open-ended responses describing breakup reasons and thoughts on the future in close relationships. The dataset includes demographic, relationship, and experimental variables; qualitative evaluations of open-ended responses (participation quality, plot structuring of self-stories, coherence of breakup reasons descriptions, and content of thoughts on the future in close relationships); self-report psychological measures (Frequency of thoughts: counterfactual and future-oriented, Event-Related Rumination Inventory, and Declared Understanding of Breakup Reasons); and linguistic indices from computational analyses using LIWC and LEM tools for participants’ open responses to tasks from Stage 2. The collection includes publicly available files (Dataset.sav, trained coders instructions – Supporting Information S1–S5) and restricted-access files (participants’ open-ended responses available upon request). Access to the open-ended responses is restricted to justified academic requests and may be granted only for research purposes, under confidentiality and data protection conditions. License: CC BY 4.0 – Attribution. All data are fully anonymized. We want to express our deepest gratitude to the trained coders and research assistants—Natalia Dziombowska, Ɓukasz Florczak, Agata Kiszelewska, Klaudia Pastwa, Kaja SƂawek, Tomasz SƂawek—for their invaluable help with research materials preparation and work on coding the qualitative data. We also thank Agnieszka MƂyniec, Ph.D., for contributing to the enhancements of the plot structuring scale and Assoc. Prof. ElĆŒbieta Zdankiewicz-ƚcigaƂa, Ph.D., for help in obtaining study funding.
dc.affiliationWydziaƂ Psychologii w Warszawie
dc.affiliationInstytut Psychologii
dc.contactperson.afilliationUniwersytet SWPS, WydziaƂ Psychologii w Warszawie, Katedra Psychologii Osobowoƛci
dc.contactperson.email[email protected]
dc.contactperson.nameJolanta Czarnecka
dc.contactperson.roleOsoba odpowiedzialna za projekt
dc.contributor.authorCzarnecka, Jolanta
dc.contributor.authorTrzebiƄski, Jerzy
dc.coverage.from2022-12-12
dc.coverage.to2025-09-12
dc.dataset.version1
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-29T12:14:43Z
dc.date.available2025-10-31
dc.description.accessLicense type: CC BY 4.0 – Attribution (for quantitative dataset) No open license – restricted access upon request (for qualitative materials) Access description: The quantitative dataset containing all variables used for statistical analyses (including aggregated LIWC outputs) is publicly available under the CC BY 4.0 license. The qualitative materials (open-ended responses conected with participation in experimental manipulation - including self-stories, descriptions of breakup reasons, and thoughts on the future in close relationships) include potentially identifiable content. These materials are stored in the SWPS University Repository under a restricted-access model and are available upon justified request to the data depositor (contact: [email address or repository contact link]). This arrangement ensures full reproducibility of the reported results while protecting participant confidentiality. Access criteria (for restricted materials) Access to the participants open responses may be granted only for research or educational purposes, upon a justified written request submitted to the data depositor. Applicants must provide a brief description of the intended use and agree to maintain full confidentiality and data protection standards. The data may not be used for commercial purposes or to attempt identification of participants.
dc.description.financeorgThis study was funded by a grant from the Institute of Psychology, SWPS University, Poland, sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland (https://www.gov.pl/web/nauka, SUB/IPsy/2022/11 to Jerzy TrzebiƄski, ElĆŒbieta Zdankiewicz-ƚcigaƂa and Jolanta Zuzanna Czarnecka.
dc.description.grantnumberSUB/IPsy/2022/11
dc.description.granttitleWpƂywu narratyzacji rozpadu bliskiego związku na sposób poznawczego i motywacyjnego radzenia sobie z tym zdarzeniem
dc.description.sdgNoSDGsAreRelevantForThisPublication
dc.identifier.doi10.58142/swps-jcz-jt-10/2025
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/1913
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
dc.relation.publication10.1371/journal.pone.0334973
dc.rights.originalCC-BY
dc.subject.ennarrative framing
dc.subject.enself-story
dc.subject.enromantic relationship breakup
dc.subject.enautobiographical reasoning
dc.subject.enemerging adulthood
dc.subject.enself-story activation
dc.subject.ennarrative action control
dc.subject.plnarratyzacja
dc.subject.plosobista historia
dc.subject.plrozpad związku romantycznego
dc.subject.plwschodząca dorosƂoƛć
dc.subject.plaktywizacja osobistej historii
dc.subject.plnarracyjna kontrola zachowania
dc.submitter.afilliationUniwersytet SWPS, WydziaƂ Psychologii w Warszawie, Katedra Psychologii Osobowoƛci
dc.submitter.email[email protected]
dc.submitter.nameJolanta Czarnecka
dc.submitter.roleWykonawca
dc.titleThe effects of narrative framing of own broken love on understanding the past and imagining the future in close relationships
dspace.entity.typeDataset