Constructing the "Springboard Effect": Causal Connections, Self-Making, and Growth Within the Life Story.

By Jennifer L. Pals. 2006

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Authoring a Second Chance in Life: Emotion and Transformational Processing Within Narrative Identity (2006, methodology): “…authors of their own second chances—to be happy, to grow, to love, to achieve, to live fully—if they keep the self connected to the negative emotional impact of difficult experiences in the past and use it as a narrative catalyst for positive self-transformation in the present (Pals, 2006a, 2006b).”
Self-concept clarity mediates the effects of adverse childhood experiences on adult suicide behavior, depression, loneliness, perceived stress, and life distress (2018, background): “These findings suggest the development of causal coherence in narratives, such as organizing one’s negative experiences within the larger context of one’s unique life story to derive self-understanding, is beneficial for mental health (Pals, 2006).”
Getting a Life Takes Time: The Development of the Life Story in Adolescence, Its Precursors and Consequences (2015, background): “Interpreting and integrating disruptive life events is potentially beneficial for wellbeing [Pals, 2006; Park, 2010].”
Developing a Life Story: Constructing Relations between Self and Experience in Autobiographical Narratives (2007, background): “Within the context of personal storytelling, we have already noted that existing findings document cultural variation in the way autobiographical narratives are typically constructed, with some groups (e.g., Americans) providing vivid, detailed personal memories that provide the individual’s unique ”
Reinterpreting Time in Fit Theory: Crafting and Recrafting Narratives of Fit in Medias Res (2011, background): “A fit narrative is therefore a “dynamic, ever-changing construction” (Pals, 2006) that is recrafted as experience accumulates and individuals selectively include and exclude snippets of fit experience.”