Narrative identity and meaning making across the adult lifespan: an introduction.

By J. Singer. Journal of Personality, 2004

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Language Teacher Immunity: A Double-Edged Sword (2015, background): “…of one’s narrative identity, individuals—including language teachers—often use autobiographical reasoning, that is, reasoning which seeks to gain understanding of why things happened the way they did and affirm general meaning or purpose from episodic experiences (Singer 2004; McAdams 2006).”
The Mindfulness-to-Meaning Theory: Extensions, Applications, and Challenges at the Attention–Appraisal–Emotion Interface (2015, background): “In this sense, meaning is central to human existence (Frankl, 1959; Singer, 2004)—and indeed biosemiotics would assert that meaning making is also fundamental feature of all living systems (Hoffmeyer, 2010).”
Authoring a Second Chance in Life: Emotion and Transformational Processing Within Narrative Identity (2006, background): “A central challenge of adult life is to construct and maintain a sense of narrative identity—a coherent, meaningful, and integrated story of who you are, how you came to be that person, and where you are headed in your imagined future (McAdams, 2001; Singer, 2004).”
Narrative identity construction in times of career change: Taking note of unconscious desires (2015, background): “…approaches to identity construction fall within two distinct research orientations, highlighting either notions of ‘coherence’ and ‘continuity’ (e.g. Pals, 2006; Singer, 2004), or notions of ‘ambiguity’ and ‘complexity’ (e.g. Fraher and Gabriel, 2014; LaPointe, 2010; Whittle et al., 2009).”
Autobiographical Memory Specificity and Emotional Disorder (2007, background): “For example, Blagov and Singer (2004) found a correlation between repressive defensiveness (as measured by the Weinberger Adjustment Inventory—Short Form) and memory specificity, with higher defensiveness being associated with fewer specific memories recalled.”
Personality and Psychotherapy: Treating the Whole Person (2005, positive): “These positive developments, which Introduction 5 were making their way piecemeal into revised editions of personality textbooks, led to a call by McAdams and Emmons, in a special issue of the Journal of Personality (December 1995, Volume 63), for a new framework of personality research that would h”
A new Big Five: fundamental principles for an integrative science of personality. (2006, background): “Narrative approaches to personality suggest that human beings construe their own lives as ongoing stories and that these life stories help to shape behavior, establish identity, and integrate individuals into modern social life (Hermans, Kempen, & van Loon, 1992; Josselson & Lieblich, 1993; McAdams,”
Emerging from the CAVE: Attributional Style and the Narrative Study of Identity in Midlife Adults (2006, background): “Costa & McCrae, 1985) with assessments of cognitive, motivational, and emotional themes in autobiographical narratives (e.g., McAdams, 2001; Singer, 2004; Woike, 1995).”
The Problem of Narrative Coherence (2006, background): “In a similar vein, Blagov and Singer (2004) identify integrative memories in life stories, in which narrators draw lessons about the self, important relationships, or life in general, suggesting that these kinds of narrative accounts are especially coherent and convincing.”
Research Methods for Studying Narrative Identity (2017, background): “Personality psychologists have made especially strong contributions to this methodological approach in work on narrative identity, the story of the self that weaves together the reconstructed past, the perceived present, and the imagined future, providing the individual with a sense of unity and mea”
The Redemptive Self: Generativity and the Stories Americans Live By (2006, background): “The internalized and evolving story—the personal myth—provides the person with what Singer (2004) called a “narrative identity.””
The Function of Fiction is the Abstraction and Simulation of Social Experience (2008, background): “…a new paradigm, with numerous researchers now working independently along similar lines (e.g., Bluck & Habermas, 2001; Brockmeier & Carbaugh, 2001; McAdams, Josselson, & Lieblich, 2006; Singer, 2004; for the health benefits of narrating experience, see Pennebaker & Graybeal, 2001; Smyth, 1998).”
Autoethnography as a Method for Reflexive Research and Practice in Vocational Psychology (2008, neutral): “…construction perpetually formed and reformed in and of socially mediated discourse, talk, text, and image (e.g., Barresi & Juckes, 1997; Baumeister & Newman, 1994; Bruner, 2004; Gergen & Davis, 1985; Hermans & Kempen, 1993; Hermans, Kempen, & van Loon, 1992; McAdams, 1993, 1996; Singer, 2004).”
Beyond Screen Time: Identity Development in the Digital Age (2020, background): “A number of psychologists have suggested that identity itself is constituted by this integrated life story, often referred to as narrative identity (McAdams & McLean, 2013; McAdams & Pals, 2006; Singer, 2004).”