12: Narrative Identity II Flashcards
What are sequential explanatory designs? What is the data used for?
Quantitative data collected first, typically qual portion is selected subsample of QUAL data.
Qualitative data used to explain quantitative results.
What are sequential exploratory designs? What is the data used for?
Qualitative data collected first; quant portion may or may not involve same people from QUAL portion.
Used to explore a poorly measured/conceptualized, creating new tests, to increase external validity of QUAL results.
What were the qualitative and quantitative components of Rice’s (2003) study?
Quantitative: perfectionism questionnaires to undergraduates.
Qualitative: semi-structured interview to ask about thoughts of perfectionism.
What are concurrent designs? What is the data used for?
Analyze both qualitative and quantitative, compare and contrast. Ideally, both produce similar results (i.e. convergence; triangulation).
May place more emphasis on one type of data (“nested” design) or equal emphasis.
Concurrent nested design emphasizing what data is most common in personality psychology?
Quantitative (QUAN + qual).
In concurrent nested design, data is typically what?
Transformed into prioritized type.
Coding schemes can be developed to see if certain themes are present in stories. Most often, this entails what? Why?
1 = present; 0 = absent.
Best for inter-rater reliability.
In the life story interview, you code each “Key Episode” for themes. So if you looked at all 8 episodes, what would happen?
Interval data ranging from 0-8.
What are the four agency themes?
Self-Mastery: striving to master, control, or perfect the self.
Status/Victory: winning, achieving prestige in the eyes of others.
Achievement/Responsibility: achieves instrumental goals, takes on responsibility.
Empowerment: made better by association with something larger or more powerful than the self.
What are the four communion themes?
Love/Friendship: enhancement of friendship or erotic love.
Dialogue: reciprocal, non-instrumental communication.
Caring/Help: caring for or assisting another person to improve their physical, social, or emotional well-being.
Unity/Togetherness: sense of oneness, unity or harmony with a group of people (or even all of humanity).
What are the four redemption themes?
Redemption imagery: movement in story from demonstrably negative to demonstrably positive scene.
Enhanced agency: transformation leads to additional enhancement of protagonist’s personal power or agency.
Enhanced communion: transformation leads to additional enhancement of protagonist’s personal relationships.
Ultimate concerns: transformation involves confrontation with fundamental existential issues or ultimate concerns.
How is redemption coded?
0-4, based on presence of the four themes.
What is one common redemptive sequence?
Growth: negative experience leads to psychological or interpersonal growth.
Research by Walker & Firmer (2007) studied exemplars who have received national medals versus controls. What were the results of their study?
Exemplars told stories with more agency, communion, and redemption.
What are contamination themes? How are they coded?
The initial positive event or state is spoiled, positivity is partially or completely erased.
1 or 0.
