Table 3.

Relative frequencies (%) of life events among seven most important memories (ordered according to their frequency in the Karabük group).

Event	Karabük	Istanbul	Turkish German	German
University	71	46	58	83
Family quarrel	63	54	25	17
Other’s death	50	08	30	–
Academic difficulties	38	46	21	17
Move	33	46	21	–
Begin school	33	37	38	41
Health problems in family	33	08	–	08
Family support∗	29	17	25	–
Problems with friends	25	21	13	–
Begin high school	21	33	25	33
Falling in love/First partner	21	29	38	63
Own birth	21	21	21	08
Serious disease/illness	21	08	21	08
Not so severe illness/accident	17	08	–	–
Personal psychological problems	17	–	–	08
Neglect/abuse experience	13	13	–	–
High school graduation	13	–	25	63
Legal problems in family	13	–	–	–
Importance of social relations	13	–	08	–
Parents’ divorce	08	08	17	13
Separation from family as child	08	08	17	–
Getting into fights	08	–	–	–
Hobbies/leisure activities	–	21	08	25
Psychological problems in family	–	21	–	–
First job	–	17	08	25
Financial problems in the family	–	17	–	–
Begin daycare	–	13	21	25
Having stepparents	–	13	–	–
Parent‘s death	–	13	–	–
First friend	–	13	–	–
First sex	–	13	–	–
Problems in romantic relations	–	08	08	–
Parents’ dating story	–	08	–	–
Secondary school			21	21
Traveling	–	–	13	38
Visiting/short term residence in Turkey	–	–	13	–
Marriage	–	–	08	–
Puberty	–	–	08	–
Circumcision	–	–	08	–
Finding own identity/religion	–	–	08	–
Leave home	–	–	–	42
First vacation without parents	–	–	–	17
Confirmation	–	–	–	13
Community service	–	–	–	13
Baptism	–	–	–	08
Other	67	79	79	71

^∗Family support refers to events during which the family supported the narrator emotionally or financially.