The role of narrative in personality psychology today

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Emerging Identities: Narrative and Self from Early Childhood to Early Adolescence (2010, background): “McAdams (2006) claimed that life narratives access the most unique aspects of personality in adults.”
Sixty Years of Language Motivation Research (2017, background): ““People do what their immediate situations tell them to do rather than what their long-standing internal traits might prompt them to do” (McAdams, 2006, p. 12).”
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).”
Narrative inquiry: ongoing conversations and questions for sport and exercise psychology research (2010, background): “As the psychologist McAdams ( 2006 ) puts it: ‘Culture provides people with a menu of narrative forms and contents from which the person selectively draws in an effort to line up lived experience with the kinds of stories available to organise and express it.”