McLean / Pasupathi Narrative Development in Adolescence

Creating the Storied Self
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-387-89825-4
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 237 Seiten

Reihe: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development

Monisha Pasupathi and Kate C. McLean Where Have You Been, Where Are You Going? Narrative Identity in Adolescence How can we help youth move from childhood to adulthood in the most effective and positive way possible? This is a question that parents, educators, researchers, and policy makers engage with every day. In this book, we explore the potential power of the stories that youth construct as one route for such movement. Our emphasis is on how those stories serve to build a sense of identity for youth and how the kinds of stories youth tell are informed by their broader contexts - from parents and friends to nationalities and history. Identity development, and in part- ular narrative identity development, concerns the ways in which adolescents must integrate their past and present and articulate and anticipate their futures (Erikson, 1968). Viewed in this way, identity development is not only unique to adol- cence (and emergent adulthood), but also intimately linked to childhood and to adulthood. The title for this chapter, borrowed from the Joyce Carol Oates story, highlights the precarious position of adolescence in relation to the construction of identity. In this story, the protagonist, poised between childhood and adulthood, navigates a series of encounters with relatively little awareness of either her childhood past or her potential adult futures. Her choices are risky and her future, at the end, looks dark.

Kate C. McLean is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto. She completed her Ph.D in Developmental Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2004.
Monisha Pasupathi is an associate professor of developmental psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Utah. She completed her Ph.D. in Personality Psychology at Stanford University in 1997, and subsequently served as a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, until 1999.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McLean, Kate

Pasupathi, Monisha

McLean, Kate C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgments;6
2;Contents;7
3;Contributor Bios;9
4;Contributors;14
5;Introduction;16
5.1; Where Have You Been, Where Are You Going? Narrative Identity in Adolescence;16
5.2; What Does Identity Have to Do with Positive Youth Development?;17
5.3; Why a Narrative Approach to Identity Development?;18
5.4; What We Know: Narrative Identity in Early Childhood and Across Adulthood;19
5.5; Why We Need to Better Understand Narrative Identity in Adolescence;21
5.6; The Present Volume;22
5.6.1; What Develops in Adolescence, and How Is That Development Linked to Other Aspects of Self?;22
5.6.2; What Are the Contexts of Adolescent Narrative Identity Development?;24
5.6.3; Where Should We Go from Here? Emerging Themes and Issues;24
6;References;28
7;Self-Continuity Across Developmental Change in and of Repeated Life Narratives;31
7.1; Continuity and Change as Represented in Life Narratives;32
7.2; The Development of the Self-Concept and Narrative Development;34
7.3; Continuity and Change of Life Narratives;35
7.4; Exploring Eight Adolescents' Life Narratives;36
7.4.1; The Study;36
7.4.2; Stability of Selected Life Events Across Tellings;38
7.4.3; Segments Re-narrated After 4 Years;39
7.4.4; Shift of Focus and Perspective in Hidden Re-narrations;44
7.4.5; New Segments from the Old Life -- Hindsight or Reflections in Retrospect;47
7.4.6; Segments That Are Not Re-narrated and New Segments: Age-Specific Themes in Life Narratives;49
7.5; Conclusion;49
8;References;50
9;Emerging Identities: Narrative and Self from Early Childhood to Early Adolescence;52
9.1; The Development of Personal Narratives from Early Childhood;54
9.2; Personal Narratives and Self-Concept in Childhood;58
9.3; Study 1: A Subjective Perspective in Adolescence as a Function of MotherChild Reminiscing in Early Childhood;59
9.4; Study 2: The Emerging Life Story and Well-Being in Early Adolescence;63
9.4.1; Implications;68
10;References;69
11;Patterns of Family Narrative Co-construction in Relation to Adolescent Identity and Well-Being;73
11.1; Narratives and Identity;74
11.2; Early ParentChild Reminiscing;76
11.3; The Family Narratives Project;77
11.4; The Family as a Unit;79
11.4.1; Family Reminiscing Style;79
11.4.2; Family Reminiscing About Emotion;81
11.5; Family Reminiscing as a Gendered Activity;82
11.5.1; Parental Reminiscing Style;82
11.5.2; Parental Emotional Content;83
11.6; Summary of Family Narratives;85
11.7; Conclusions and Implications;86
12;References;87
13;Autonomy, Identity, and Narrative Construction with Parents and Friends;92
13.1; Choosing Classes;92
13.2; Processes of Identity and Autonomy Formation Are Linked in Adolescence;94
13.3; Identity and Autonomy in Conversational Storytelling;96
13.4; Identity and Conversational Remembering;96
13.4.1; Autonomy and Conversational Storytelling;97
13.4.2; Fivush's Model of Voice and Silence;98
13.5; The Artist;99
13.6; Trying Alcohol;101
13.7; College Choice;103
13.8; What About with Friends?;105
13.9; The Angry Young Man;109
13.10; Summary and Conclusions;113
14;References;115
15;What He Said to Me Stuck: Adolescents' Narratives of Grandparents and Their Identity Development in Emerging Adulthood;119
15.1; Grandparenting and Storytelling in the Three-Generational Family;120
15.2; Stories of Grandparent Value Teaching by Adolescents;122
15.3; Grandparenting and Adolescent Identity Formation;125
15.4; Interpretations and Conclusions;131
16;References;135
17;Life Stories of Troubled Youth: Meanings for a Mentor and a Scholarly Stranger;139
17.1; Suzannes Story: Transformation;141
17.1.1; Jane's Proximal Analysis;141
17.1.2; Avril's Distal Analysis;143
17.1.3; Comparison of Our Perspectives on Suzanne's Story;147
17.2; Jeffs Story: Welcome to My Life;147
17.2.1; Jane's Proximal Analysis;147
17.2.2; Avril's Distal Analysis;149
17.2.3; Comparison of Our Perspectives on Jeff's Story;150
17.3; Near and Distant Views of Life Stories;151
17.4; Postscript;153
18;References;153
19;Re-storying the Lives of At-Risk Youth: A Case Study Approach;156
19.1; At-Risk Youth;157
19.2; At-Risk Youth and the Self;158
19.3; Self and the Life Story;158
19.4; Life Stories of At-Risk Youth;159
19.5; Case Studies;162
19.5.1; Future Goals and Feared Futures;162
19.5.2; Stories of Vulnerability;163
19.5.3; Emerging Stories of Resilience;164
19.5.4; Changing Stories;165
19.6; Applying Latent Semantic Analysis to Changing Stories;166
19.7; Discussion and Conclusion;170
20;References;172
21;Constructing Resilience: Adolescent Motherhood and the Process of Self-Transformation;175
21.1; Self-Identity and Resilience in Adolescence;177
21.2; Exploring Personal Narratives of Young Mothers with Histories of Antisocial Behavior;179
21.2.1; Tamara;181
21.2.2; Jasmine;184
21.3; Implications for the Study of Narrative Identity in Adolescence;188
22;References;190
23;Negotiating the Meanings of Adolescent Motherhood Through the Medium of Identity Collages;193
23.1; Negotiating the Meanings of Adolescent Motherhood;193
23.2; The Art Project;194
23.2.1; Recruiting Participants;195
23.3; Creating Collages;196
23.4; Portraits;197
23.4.1; Mandisa;197
23.4.2; Sakina;199
23.4.3; Jasira;200
23.4.4; Jeanine;202
23.5; Negotiating Between the Personal and Canonical;203
23.5.1; Between Sexual Experience and Safe Sex;203
23.5.2; Between Collecting Babydads and Marrying Fathers;204
23.6; Conclusion;206
24;References;207
25;How Violent Youth Offenders and Typically Developing Adolescents Construct Moral Agency in Narratives About Doing Harm;208
25.1; Knowing Wrong and Doing Wrong;209
25.2; Adolescents Speak About Having Harmed Others;211
25.2.1; The Language of Mental Experience;212
25.2.2; The Contents of Their Experience;214
25.2.2.1; The Landscape of Action;215
25.2.2.2; The Landscape of Consciousness;218
25.2.3; Implicit Psychological Concepts;219
25.3; Conclusions;223
26;References;227
27;Critical Narrating by Adolescents Growing Up in War: Case Study Across the Former Yugoslavia;230
27.1; Development in Crisis;232
27.2; Developing Narrative Theory;233
27.3; Integrating Cultural-Historical Narratives of Post-war Contexts;236
27.4; Methodological Approach for Narrating Development;239
27.5; Narrative Database and Analyses;241
27.6; Hypothetical Community Narrative Activity Captures International Youth Imagination;243
27.7; Autobiographical Narrative Activities Engage Diverse Psychosocial Processes;245
27.8; Diverse Orientations Across Contexts;249
27.9; Communicative Complexity Is a Narrative Development Process;251
28;References;252
29;Index;254