When Bad Things Turn Good and Good Things Turn Bad: Sequences of Redemption and Contamination in Life Narrative and their Relation to Psychosocial Adaptation in Midlife Adults and in Students

By D. McAdams, Jeffrey Reynolds, Mary Lewis, Allison H. Patten, P. Bowman. 2001

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

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Personality and the coherence of psychotherapy narratives (2007, background): “To identify a redemption sequence (e.g., McAdams et al., 2001) or an instance of depressogenic attributional style (e.g., Adler et al., 2006), one must first be able to interpret the narrative.”
Animals as Lifechangers and Lifesavers (2013, background): “McAdams most often hears redemption stories from American adults who score highly on psychological measures of generativity (2006a, 2006b, 2008; McAdams et al. 2001).”
Narrative identity and meaning making across the adult lifespan: an introduction. (2004, result): “In agreement with McAdams and colleagues’ work on redemption narratives (McAdams et al., 2001) and Thorne et al.”
Identity in Emerging Adulthood (2013, background): “Indeed, McLean and Pratt (2005) found that emerging adults in the moratorium and achieved statuses engaged in the most mature meaning making, and that diffused and foreclosed emerging adults engaged in the least mature meaning making.”
Authoring a Second Chance in Life: Emotion and Transformational Processing Within Narrative Identity (2006, background): “, ego development, emotional awareness, cognitive complexity) and those that correlate with indicators of well-being and mental health (e.g., life satisfaction, positive affect, self-acceptance, low depression; Baerger & McAdams, 1999; Bauer & McAdams, 2004; Bauer et al., 2005; King et al., 2000; Ki”
To nostalgize: mixing memory with affect and desire (2015, methodology): “We used the McAdams et al. (2001) classification to understand the structure of nostalgia.”
Noncognitive Constructs and Their Assessment in Graduate Education: A Review (2005, background): “McAdams et al. (2001) found that the specific coding of narratives for “redemption” and “contamination” imagery was more predictive of well-being than was an overall affective assessment of the narrative.”
Emerging Identities: Narrative and Self from Early Childhood to Early Adolescence (2010, background): “In line with this theory, the positive resolution of negative experiences is linked to greater well-being in adults (King & Miner, 2000; McAdams, Reynolds, Lewis, Patten, & Bowman, 2001 ).”
Exploring psychological themes through life narrative accounts (2012, background): “Research consistently shows that higher scores on redemption sequences in American adults’ life stories are associated with greater generativity and better psychological health (McAdams, 2006; McAdams & Bowman, 2001; McAdams et al., 1997; McAdams et al., 2001; Walker & Frimer, 2007).”