The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By

By D. McAdams. 2005

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Meaning in Life as a Subjective Judgment and a Lived Experience (2009, background): “For example, researchers who study life narratives have uncovered many revealing insights about what makes people’s lives meaningful (e.g., McAdams, 2006).”
A cultural task analysis of implicit independence: comparing North America, Western Europe, and East Asia. (2009, unknown): “Moreover, the discourse of American Dream has continued to shape each and every person’s life by providing forceful narratives to live by (Hochschild, 1995; McAdams, 2006).”
The role of centrality of events in posttraumatic distress and posttraumatic growth. (2013, unknown): “…between these two variables is unclear, these results do suggest that, to the extent that a person regards an event as a turning point in one’s life (McAdams, 2006) and assumes the identity of a victim of a traumatic event, this may be one avenue that clinician’s can use to address symptomatology.”
Narrative and the Cultural Psychology of Identity (2008, background): “With some notable exceptions (e.g., Gregg, 2007; McAdams, 2006), personality and social psychologists have tended to view the relationship between culture and personal identity in aggregate terms, seeking to make broad generalizations about the psychological impact of group membership (e.”
The Posttraumatic Growth Model: Sociocultural Considerations (2012, background): “As previously indicated, McAdams (2006) has suggested that for some U.S. residents, a component of the broad story that helps form and organize an understanding of their life experiences is the theme of encountering bad things, suffering, but expecting that positive changes will occur and that…”
Personal, Master, and Alternative Narratives: An Integrative Framework for Understanding Identity Development in Context (2016, methodology): “This bottom-up approach can, and should, be paired with a historical-cultural analysis to understand the origin and function of the master narratives [see Hammack, 2011, and McAdams, 2006 as exemplars].”
Identity, Conflict, and Coexistence (2006, background): “The life story, McAdams (1996, 2005) argues, represents a level of personality organization beyond traits and adaptations.”
Narrative as a Root Metaphor for Political Psychology (2012, methodology): “…the way in which narrative represents a tool for creating a sense of self and identity (e.g., Freeman, 1997; Hammack, 2008; Josselson, 1996; McAdams, 1996, 2006; McLean, Pasupathi, & Pals, 2007; Schiff, 2002), increasingly integrating analysis of cultural and contextual factors in the…”
The Function of Fiction is the Abstraction and Simulation of Social Experience (2008, background): “…there are crossfertilizing influences: literary genres such as biography and autobiography affect how people construct their own life narratives (McAdams, 2006), and important biographical work is now being based on our understanding of the lifespan development of character (Magai &…”
What is Narrative Research (2014, background): “So does the recent burst of empirically-based texts focused on specific studies, (Andrews, 2007; Emerson and Frosh, 2004; McAdams, 2006; Mishler, 1999; Squire, 2007; Tamboukou, 2003), the rich crop of narrativelythemed collections of essays (Andrews et al.”
“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): “They were also asked to identify turning points (McAdams, 2006) that had”
The content and processes of autobiographical reasoning in narrative identity (2008, result): “Thus, these results suggest a general motif of growth, which is consistent with recent theoretical formulations about stories of redemption in North America (McAdams, 2006).”
Greater strengths of character and recovery from illness (2006, background): “E-mail: chrispet@umich.edu ISSN 1743-9760 print/ISSN 1743-9779 online/06/010017–10 2006 Taylor & Francis DOI: 10.1080/17439760500372739 of redemption, which leads people to regard a bad experience retrospectively as a good one (McAdams, 1993, 2005).”