The Development of the Temporal Macrostructure of Life Narratives Across Adolescence
Beginnings, Linear Narrative Form, and Endings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19280451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tilmann Habermas (0000-0002-3386-4767, Goethe University Frankfurt), Silvia Ehlert‐Lerche (Goethe University Frankfurt), Cybèle de Silveira (Goethe University Frankfurt) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 527-560 |
| Publication date | 2009-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3506 • E-ISSN: 1467-6494 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2008.00557.x |
| PMID | 19220721 |
| OpenAlex | W1981622518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 59 |
The ontogeny of the ability to describe people culminates in adolescence in the development of the life story. An overarching temporal macrostructure and framing by a prehistory and a future‐oriented global evaluation of life helps integrate disparate autobiographical memories into a coherent story. Two life narratives each of 8‐, 12‐, 16‐, and 20‐year‐olds ( N =102) were analyzed in terms of how well‐formed their beginnings and endings are and how much they follow a linear temporal order. By age 12, the majority of life narratives began with birth, ended in the present, and followed a chronological order. In late adolescence and early adulthood, more elaborate birth narratives and retrospective evaluations of life and outlooks into the future were added. These formal characteristics were related to biographical practices, biographical knowledge, and fluid intelligence. Text‐analytical methods are proposed as a method for the analysis of biographical and autobiographical reasoning and understanding
Art · Developmental psychology · Framing (construction) · Life history · Literature · Narrative · Ontogeny · Cognitive Abilities and Testing · History · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Memory Processes and Influences · Psychology
Movies, books, and identity
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Autobiographical memory and sense of self
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The making of autobiographical memory
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Normative ideas of life and autobiographical reasoning in life narratives
Autobiographical reasoning
Assessing gender differences and well-being in birth narratives for students of historically black colleges and universities
Remembering a life
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Cognitive dependencies and psychological health correlates of coherence in autobiographical reasoning
Dialogical Integration of Life Experiences and Successful Aging
The development of past and future life stories in adolescence
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Life story chapters and narrative self-continuity in patients with schizophrenia
Getting a Life Takes Time
A construção narrativa da identidade
Intricate Lettings Out and Lettings In”
I Know My Story and I Know Your Story
Narratives about relationships with parents from the perspective of middle-aged and older adults
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Chronology versus centrality
When personal narratives meet historical events
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Cultural life scripts structure recall from autobiographical memory
The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system.
The Encyclopedia of language and linguistics
Stuck in the Past
Developing a Life Story
Understanding Developmental Regulation in Adolescence
Identity
When Remembering Is Not Enough
Motive‐Related Memories
Making Things Better and Learning a Lesson
Traits and Stories
Narrative Identity and Meaning Making Across the Adult Lifespan
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Narrative Analysis
The Development of Coherence in Adolescents’ Life Narratives
Life Story Coherence and its Relation to Psychological Well-Being
The Transmission of Birth Stories from Mother to Daughter
Constructing Individuality
Form and Function in Introducing Narrative and Expository Texts
Personality and the coherence of psychotherapy narratives
Future-time perspective in adolescence
Developing Narrative Structure
Adult age differences in autobiographical reasoning in narratives
Life story development in childhood
Developing narrative structure in parent-child reminiscing across the preschool years
Developing narrative structure in parent–child reminiscing across the preschool years
The development of global coherence in life narratives across adolescence
Text and Temporality
Studies in script theory
Narratives of Birth in Swedish Popular Autobiography
Moral personality of brave and caring exemplars
A new Big Five
Family Stories and the Life Course
History as Narrative
Getting a life
Reflecting on Life
| Unique citing works | 29 |
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| Citations per year | 1,93 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |