Week 13, Done! Flashcards
Narrative identity
We are all story tellers, how was holiday… Don’t necessarily realize it.
Natural thing to story tell, helps get to know other people. Learn a lot, insight.
Meaningful in personality dev. Particularly in forming identity
Develop teen and beyond, internalized evolving. Unifying aspects of self. Only Partly conscious, humans may not always have done this. More individualized, more we do this.
Life story/narrative
McAdams,” personality I loves whole person, life narrative functions as a whole.”
3rd level,
Tie everything togethor.
Identity as a life story.
Story example: best vacation,
Niigata falls, meatloaf sandwiches with grape juice, hotel without swimming pool, except on this trip.
Brother made new friends, saved sister in pool, felt relieved and ashamed k oil don’t do anything to help. Just one memory.
Part of collection of significant ejido seeds
As we get older, we start connecting stories,
Pick up main characters,
McAdams, we create personal myth starting in teens, becomes part of ourselves.
Dreaming of working at Pizza Hut, Amish, ritualistic video.
Left Amish more collective societies would never see this.
First morning in Burlington, felt like whole new person, new she had to do this.
Freedom, wanted, wedding had no family, though invited.
Story gripped k. What is this
Key part so ladies life story. Coming of age story,
Coming of age is a big part of lots of life stories. Time figuring out who you are, rela, career.
Video, poignant, break away, like many have, but for Amish, family never speak to you again.
Traits motives, attachemt. Style, all secondary. To the story,
All have unique life stories,
McAdams Life Story Model of Identity
From article.
- The person defines herself by constructing an autobiographical story of the self. Connecting many stories togethor.
Note: narcissistic endeavours, McAdams, would say natural organization of us and others. - The story provides the person with a sense of unity and purpose in life. complex enough to explain evolution of self, happy miserable happy for k. Eg. Me progression troubles health, school success, actualization?.
- Facts are not as important as the meaning.
In other words, we shape our stories, spinning ads,
Baldwin, spelling bee, really brothers story, but incorporated it,
k focus on troubles troubles.
- note McAdams preemie birth; 50/50 chance of survival
Cautious and grateful, hmm sounds familiar. Not sure where he got this from though,
- example of Roland as the big
strong brother; sister brother figure prominently, story about wife meeting brother, focus on 10 year old boy impression. Self fulfilling prophecy. Then mom story, hitler youth brigade, run home, are they really tue, well there is a reconstructive process. So not always. When kids parents tell us lots of storie, incorporating them.
**Seems ability parents have to put togethor life story influence how well you construct your life story.
- The process begins actively in young adulthood but important aspects of the life story are derived from earlier developmental periods. : most changeable part of personalsty, flexible.
- The process continues throughout one’s adult life.
- The story should become more finely nuanced as one grows older .
- There should be some adaptive benefit to a well-crafted life story. Process has meaning,affects well being and rela. Benefits to well crafted story.
Note child can only tell single story, getting older, better able to tell good story,
The life story method,
7/8 chapters.
12-13, need same sex friend, hmm Darwyn, cool.
•Finding Friends Victor & Freddy; 12-13
•Rejects High School; 15-18
•Columbia U: The Depths of Despair**; 19-20
Turning points in life is another way, monies, high low point,
Important child or adult episodes, biggest challenges, min characters, ask about future.
Mean implied future in our stories too.
All can do this, surprising ability.
Do this like a movie or film, judge them same way, descriptive language applies to person slide soptroy too.
Narrative tone,
Optimistic, McAdams would sayi mean had secure attachment,
Kind of story telling and movies you like, similar.
Om, gone with the wind, me, dunno, James Bond.
Comparisons of North Americans and East Asians
American, early life,more detailed, self docued, uniqueness,mone off.
Asian, emphasize memor interactions with others, focus important others, show learning.
Coding themes
Agency and communion.
Agency, expanded, assert perfect. Narcissism, has a lot. But research suggests sense o on troll associated with good outcomes,agnetic stories lead to well being.
Communion, merge bond connect.
Balance best.
Most stories have both, ideal.
The redemption story
Common in North America,
Conta onion story line is maladaptive.
Types of story: The Redemption Story
•Clara Hughes Example
•Redemption Sequences:
•Father dies -> family becomes emotionally closer;
•Severe depression -> protagonist recovers and feels euphoric;
•Failure at a job -> protagonist works to discover what she was really meant to do;
•Loneliness of childhood -> protagonist becomes a resilient adult.
Generativity, life satisfaction, self esteem, Clara Hughes, redemption ex. Amish lady, interesting, met man, but sickbed back in. Great redemption.
It is challenging to develop a good life story.
• coherence
Causal, temporal,
• openness, unpredictable, suprises,
• **credibility: should be some factual accuracy. Imp. Anchored in reality, though narcissists problem ly have a lot less of this.
Ex. Party in Rochester, English major,
• differentiation: complex and detailed, old der more nuanced. Gives everyone personal story arc, characters are 3d
• reconciliation
• generative integration: helpful to others in creating these stories, unsefula Nd incorporated by others
Developmental progression: stores become more, coherent and differentiated with time,
Questions that you might have:
- What if one isn’t a story-teller? No such thing
- Is it quantifiable? Yup. Interview scored for themes, reliable, endless process though, shows score works, track them and predict.
- Can it predict anything? Yeah
- How would psychotherapy influence it? Go to counselling cuz story is not working to well, self disclose, help of counsellor, revise story, thinking differently. Collaborative revision, co-authored.
- How much can the story change in adulthood? A lot.
Research on life story not too compelling yet though, but has a lot of value.
Perfectionist
Healthy, not manic about it, self strem does not depend on it.
Unhealthy, achievement depends on self esteem,
Killer instinct. Focus on winning. Sex and sports life achievement so high in both, compulsive Suggs. Cannot slept since 19. Indicates, something is not right.
Recovered, in swb. Eudaimonic ally, k is concerned. Purpose, hmm.
Low eu perhaps
Bruce from 49 up
What about his happiness?
Low e and n.
What about swb and eeb, any change over time, good or bad.
Never asserted himself, realizing anger and feelings. Case of low eu, but.
Low social dominance,
Perhaps high eu, though, just low hedonic.
Distinguishing to forms of well being.
Distinguishing the two forms
●High positive correlations between hedonic and eudaimonic measures;
●But they do show distinctive correlates.
●Most importantly, difficult life events have different association w. hedonic & eudaimonic wb.
