Selves Creating Stories Creating Selves: A Process Model of Self-Development

By Kate C. McLean, M. Pasupathi, Jennifer L. Pals. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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The Role of Domain Content in Understanding Identity Development Processes (2016, background): “McLean, Pasupathi, and Pals (2007) argued that meaning-making is a critical narrative process for developing a coherent identity by helping individuals to make sense of challenging events, which lead us to expect that meaningmaking might be engaged to make sense of events where contents co-occur.”
Developing Moral Agency through Narrative (2010, background): “One of the most useful features of narrative approaches is that narratives both reflect existing conceptions of self, and may also exert prospective influences on future self-views [McLean et al., 2007].”
Identity in Emerging Adulthood (2013, background): “McLean, Pasupathi, and Pals (2007) review research suggesting that the inability to connect the turning points within one’s life to one’s current sense of self may be associated with diminished well-being (e.g., low self-esteem and unhappiness with one’s current life circumstances).”
Ethnic and Racial Identity During Adolescence and Into Young Adulthood: An Integrated Conceptualization (2014, background): “…believe that an important avenue for future research will be to utilize a narrative approach with emerging and older adults to gain a more nuanced, and perhaps more comprehensive, understanding of how ERI develops across space and time (see McAdams, 2001; McLean et al., 2007; Syed & Azmitia, 2010).”
Narrative and the Cultural Psychology of Identity (2008, background): “With the increasing emphasis on “situated stories”— that is, narratives created within a particular social situation (McLean et al., 2007)—personality and social psychologists are also increasingly identifying self making as a social process (see Thorne, 2004; Thorne & Nam, in press).”
The Fading affect bias: But what the hell is it for? (2009, background): “One concern expressed by Neisser (1982) about scientific progress in psychology is that relatively little attention is sometimes paid to issues that are significant to people in their daily lives.”