Getting a life: the emergence of the life story in adolescence.

By T. Habermas, Susan Bluck. Psychological bulletin, 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Frequency in lexical processing (2016, background): “…autobiographical memory systems only begin to approximate those of adults sometime between 10 and 15 years of age (Conway, 2005; Van Abbema & Bauer, 2005), and that full adult memory capacity does not emerge until late adolescence and early adulthood (Ghetti & Bunge, 2012; Habermas & Bluck, 2000).”
The Problem of Narrative Coherence (2006, background): “Reviewing research on life-storytelling and narrative understanding, Habermas and Bluck (2000) demonstrate that the full expression of narrative identity awaits the consolidation of four different cognitive skills, each linked to a form of narrative coherence.”
The emergence of autobiographical memory: a social cultural developmental theory. (2004, background): “Even when children first begin to refer to the past verbally, at about 18 months of age, these references are fleeting and fragmentary (Nelson & Ross, 1980; Weist, 1986).”
Life Design: A Paradigm for Career Intervention in the 21st Century (2012, background): “With the shift in responsibility for career from institutions to individuals, people must "get a life" (Habermas & Bluck, 2000) and bridge transitions in that life by using what has been referred to as biographicity (Alheit, 1995) and identity work (Sveningsson & Alvesson, 2003).”
The Psychology of Life Stories (2001, background): “Still, it is not until adolescence, according to Habermas and Bluck, that individuals craft causal narratives to explain how different events are linked together in the context of a biography. Causal coherence is exhibited in the increasing effort across adolescence to provide narrative accounts of ”
Finding the Meaning of Meaning: Emerging Insights on Four Grand Questions (2018, background): “People derive meaning in life partly by crafting a story in which the present is explained both as the product of past events and as a springboard for future states toward which they are striving (Habermas & Bluck, 2000).”