The Psychology of Life Stories

By D. McAdams. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Ethnic and Racial Identity During Adolescence and Into Young Adulthood: An Integrated Conceptualization (2014, background): “One of the ways that individuals develop a sense of personal coherence is by constructing elaborate narratives that help them make sense of the complexity of their identity (McAdams, 2001).”
Narrative and the Cultural Psychology of Identity (2008, background): “In this way, identity—understood as a life story—represents the “third level” of personality beyond traits and personal concerns (McAdams, 1995, 1996, 2001; McAdams & Pals, 2006).”
Happiness Revisited: Ontological Well-Being as a Theory-Based Construct of Subjective Well-Being (2009, background): “It indicates that there is a strong inclination among individuals to develop more abstract, evaluative, organizing mental activity with regard to life experiences, whether related to the past, the present, or the future (Bluck and Habermas 2001; McAdams 2001; Staudinger 2001).”
The content and processes of autobiographical reasoning in narrative identity (2008, methodology): “In contrast to level two, and particularly to level one, level three is a more non-comparative and malleable aspect of personality (McAdams, 1993, 1995, 2001; Singer, 1995; Thorne & Latzke, 1996).”
Emerging from the CAVE: Attributional Style and the Narrative Study of Identity in Midlife Adults (2006, methodology): “Overall satisfaction with life was assessed with the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS; Diener, Emmons, Larson, & Griffin, 1985).”
Selves Creating Stories Creating Selves: A Process Model of Self-Development (2007, background): “The ideas that stories and self are intimately linked (e.g., Fivush, 2001; McAdams, 1993, 2001; Singer & Salovey, 1993; Thorne, 2000) and that stories are situated (e.g., Bamberg, 2004b; Pasupathi, 2001; Thorne, 2004) have separately received a great deal of attention in receznt years.”
Interviewing the terrorists: reflections on fieldwork and implications for psychological research (2012, background): “Finding ‘reality’ may be less important than acknowledging the significance of its meaning for the interviewee (see McAdams, 1993 , 2001 ).”
Remembering and reminiscing: How individual lives are constructed in family narratives (2008, background): “It is as individuals create narratives of specifi c experiences that are then linked together through time and evaluative frameworks that individuals construct an overarching life narrative that defi nes self (Habermas and Bluck, 2000; McAdams, 2001; McLean et al., in press).”
Putting the Person into Social Identity (2004, background): “The exemplar of the life story approach is Dan McAdams’ [2001] theory that identity is an internalized life story that primarily develops through self-reflection.”
Narrative, psychology and the politics of sexual identity in the United States: from ‘sickness’ to ‘species’ to ‘subject’ (2013, background): “The narrative psychology movement, as well as the emphasis on discourse analysis in European psychology (e.g. Parker, 1992; Potter & Wetherell, 1987), is a part of this shift (e.g. Josselson, 2009; McAdams, 1996, 2001).”
The wisdom of experience: Autobiographical narratives across adulthood (2005, methodology): “By using narrative data collected as part of a larger American study (McAdams, 2001), we were able to include comparison event narratives about a time in which a person was foolish, and a time when a person had a peak experience.”
Taking care of business? Grateful processing of unpleasant memories (2008, background): “By identifying positive consequences of a stressful event that one can be grateful for, this should help the memory fit more coherently into one’s good life story (McAdams, 2001), thereby bringing closure to the event as well as decreasing its intrusiveness and aversive emotional impact.”