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Answering the question 'How have you become the person you are today?' encourages people to build their narrative identity, referring to their ever-changing, internalized life story. Life stories are grounded in autobiographical memory and provide the basis for the experience of personhood; that is, the experience of being an individual with a past, present, and future in a certain culture at a certain time. Traditionally, researchers have approached the study of life story psychology either by focusing on autobiographical memories or through narratives of individual memories, life story chapters, or entire life narratives. This book is the first to bring these isolated approaches together to reveal new perspectives on how people construct their identities and understand their lives across time and cultural contexts. Featuring chapters by leading experts, it offers a thorough introduction to both approaches that enrich our understanding of life story psychology.
Contents
1. Introduction Christin Camia and Annette Bohn; Part I. How Research on Autobiographical Memory Contrasts with and Integrates the Life Story Approach: 2. Getting a life: a historical analysis Susan Bluck and Mary Kate Koch; 3. Building bridges: a narrative about two camps of autobiographical memory researchers William Hirst and Christin Camia; 4. The functional approach to autobiographical memory: retrospect and prospect; Part II. How The Environment of Autobiographical Memory Shapes the Life Story: 5. Conceptualizing cultural life scripts as master narratives: an underestimated tool to explore life stories Christin Camia and Annette Bohn; 6. The origins of adolescents' autobiographical memories and life stories in mother-child reminiscing Elaine Reese; 7. Other voices, other lives, and our own life stories Monisha Pasupathi; 8. Social support for causal coherence Azriel Grysman; 9. Agency and communion when remembering parents in young adulthood Kristina Klug, Christin Camia and Michael W. Pratt; 10. Vicarious life stories: concepts, findings, and social functions Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen and David B. Pillemer; Part III. How Deviating Autobiographical Memories Shape the Life Story: 11. Could life care contexts impact the adolescent's life narrative coherence? Data from a study encompassing paths of ruptures and adversity Margarida Rangel Henriques, Pedro Saraiva, Meritxell Pacheco, Isabel Peters and Márcia Almeida; 12. Narrative coherence and incoherence: individual, developmental and contextual factors Robyn Fivush; 13. Biographies in the name of God: exploring important autobiographical memories of members of Christian orders Tabea Wolf; 14. Cultural life scripts and life story events of cis-heterosexual and LGBQ individuals Deniz Asolar and Ali İ. Tekcan; 15. Narratives, perspective-taking and emotion regulation: obstacles and boosters to cope with child maltreatment Eleonora Bartoli and Mariam Fishere; 16. Life narratives and psychopathology: what life stories tell us about people experiencing mental disorders Mélissa C. Allé, Marie-Charlotte Gandolphe, Xavier Saloppé and Fabrice Berna; 17. Life stories are culturally mediated and socially constructed: future directions of life story research Tilmann Habermas.
