Developing a Life Story: Constructing Relations between Self and Experience in Autobiographical Narratives

By M. Pasupathi, Emma Mansour, Jed R. Brubaker. Human Development, 2007

410 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/9d2c4ceae3d8227b4a7b5e4c1af5d977202fb18f

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

In Literature and Literary Theory

In Social Psychology

Citations in the corpus

Narrative and the Cultural Psychology of Identity (2008, background): “These scholars argue that story making in specific social contexts reveals the social process by which individuals make meaning of experience and create a coherent self, primarily through the construction of autobiographical memory (e.g., McLean et al., 2007; Pasupathi et al., 2007; Thorne, 2000; Th”
When Veterans Return: The Role of Community in Reintegration (2011, background): “…to articulate a fully integrated (Berntsen et al., 2003) and coherent (Burnell et al., 2009) personal narrative in order to avoid a crisis in identity (Adler & McAdams, 2007; Baerger & McAdams, 1999; Bruner, 1987; Howard, 1991; Pasupathi et al., 2007; Ricoeur, 1992; Sarbin, 1986; Whitty, 2002).”
Processes of Identity Development: Where I Am and How I Got There (2012, background): “…reasoning seem to be prima facie evidence of the role of narration in identity exploration since people are explicitly articulating relationships between self and experience in the context of storytelling (McLean, 2005; McLean & Thorne, 2003; McLean et al., 2007; Pasupathi et al., 2007).”
“Let Me Do What I Please With It . . . Don’t Decide My Identity For Me”: LGBTQ+ Youth Experiences of Social Media in Narrative Identity Development (2020, background): “Third, narratives function to create a link between past, present, and future through the identification of common life themes or tasks (Habermas & Bluck, 2000; Pasupathi et al., 2007).”
Guidelines for Establishing Reliability When Coding Narrative Data (2015, background): “Examples of nominal coding in narrative psychology include event type, self-event connections (Pasupathi et al., 2007), and telling motivation (Alea & Bluck, 2003).”
Remembering and reminiscing: How individual lives are constructed in family narratives (2008, background): “As such, autobiographical memories differ from simply recalling what happened to include information about why this event is interesting, important, entertaining, etc., essentially why this event is meaningful for the self (Fivush and Haden, 2005; Fivush and Nelson, 2006; Pasupathi et al., 2007).”
Narrative, psychology and the politics of sexual identity in the United States: from ‘sickness’ to ‘species’ to ‘subject’ (2013, background): “Thus, the formation of life stories and autobiographical memories is socially embedded and best understood in transactional or reciprocal terms between person and setting (McLean, Pasupathi, & Pals, 2007 ; Pasupathi, Mansour, & Brubaker, 2007 ).”
Developing Moral Agency through Narrative (2010, background): “…consider the creation of narratives, perhaps especially in conversations with others, as a paramount developmental process for the formation of a sense of self [e.g., Fivush & Nelson, 2004; McAdams, 2006; McLean, Pasupathi, & Pals, 2007; Pasupathi, 2001; Pasupathi et al., 2007; Thorne, 2000].”