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Establishing a life story plays a vital role in adulthood by supporting generativity, [16] and it helps to foster meaning-making at the end of life. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Entire life narratives [ 12 ] and single event stories tend to increase in coherence and meaning-making over the course of adolescence. [ 19 ]
Cohler made significant contributions across social science disciplines, bringing together ideas from life-course perspectives on human development (influenced especially by the work of Bernice Neugarten and Glen Elder) with psychoanalytic theory and narrative psychology and the personological study of lives. Cohler is credited as one of the ...
Psychologists became interested in stories and everyday accounts of life in the 1970s. The term narrative psychology was introduced by Theodore R. Sarbin in his 1986 book Narrative Psychology: The storied nature of human conduct [1] in which he claimed that human conduct is best explained through stories and that this explanation should be done through qualitative research. [6]
Charlotte Linde writes about life stories, which are similar to the personal narrative: "A life story consists of all the stories and associated discourse units, such as explanations and chronicles, and the connections between them, told by an individual during his/her lifetime that satisfy the following two criteria: The stories and associated discourse units contained in the life story have ...
The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) involves presenting individuals with vague pictures/scenes and asking them to tell a story based on what they see. [22] Common examples of these "scenes" include images that may suggest family relationships or specific situations, such as a father and son or a man and a woman in a bedroom. [ 58 ]
Life history is an interviewing method used to record autobiographical history from an ordinary person's perspective, often gathered from traditionally marginalized groups. It was begun by anthropologists studying Native American groups around the 1900s, and was taken up by sociologists and other scholars, though its popularity has waxed and ...
In narratology, focalisation is the perspective through which a narrative is presented, as opposed to an omniscient narrator. [1] Coined by French narrative theorist Gérard Genette, his definition distinguishes between internal focalisation (first-person) and external focalisation (third-person, fixed on the actions of and environments around a character), with zero focalisation representing ...
Life story work as a concept has dated back to at least the 1960s, possibly further. [1] The application of the concept to children in foster care and adoption was discussed in academia from the early 1980s onward. [2] Life story work is well documented in the UK and Australia [3] and has been incorporated into UK Adoption legislation. More ...