Article Accepted Manuscript

Narrative identity’s nomological network: Expanding and organizing assessment of the storied self

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Dunlop, William L.

Abstract / Description

The Life story, or narrative identity, is a psychosocial construction that brings together and integrates the self and experience within a broad story-based framework. Personality psychologists typically capture aspects of this inner story by prompting participants for descriptions of life chapters and/or specific and self-definitional autobiographical key scenes (e.g., high points, low points, turning points). Features of participants’ responses are then quantified for their thematic and/or structural content. There exists a number of additional and complementary assessment techniques that could buttress study of, and theory pertaining to, narrative identity. Here, I work to identify these assessments, which include self-reports, informant reports, and behavioral observations, and organize them within narrative identity’s nomological network. This work concludes with a number of suggestions for the ways in which traditional assessments may be better attuned to capture narrative identity’s integrative nature.

Keyword(s)

life stories narrative identity nomological network assessment

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Date of first publication

2021-07-08

Journal title

Personality Science

Publisher

PsychArchives

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acceptedVersion

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reviewed

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Citation

Dunlop, W. L. (in press). Narrative identity’s nomological network: Expanding and organizing assessment of the storied self [Author accepted manuscript]. Personality Science. http://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4961
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Dunlop, William L.
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2021-07-08T16:55:17Z
  • Made available on
    2021-07-08T16:55:17Z
  • Date of first publication
    2021-07-08
  • Abstract / Description
    The Life story, or narrative identity, is a psychosocial construction that brings together and integrates the self and experience within a broad story-based framework. Personality psychologists typically capture aspects of this inner story by prompting participants for descriptions of life chapters and/or specific and self-definitional autobiographical key scenes (e.g., high points, low points, turning points). Features of participants’ responses are then quantified for their thematic and/or structural content. There exists a number of additional and complementary assessment techniques that could buttress study of, and theory pertaining to, narrative identity. Here, I work to identify these assessments, which include self-reports, informant reports, and behavioral observations, and organize them within narrative identity’s nomological network. This work concludes with a number of suggestions for the ways in which traditional assessments may be better attuned to capture narrative identity’s integrative nature.
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  • Publication status
    acceptedVersion
  • Review status
    reviewed
  • Citation
    Dunlop, W. L. (in press). Narrative identity’s nomological network: Expanding and organizing assessment of the storied self [Author accepted manuscript]. Personality Science. http://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4961
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  • ISSN
    2700-0710
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/4389
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4961
  • Language of content
    eng
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  • Publisher
    PsychArchives
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  • Is version of
    https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.6469
  • Is version of
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.6335
  • Is related to
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.6335
  • Keyword(s)
    life stories
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  • Keyword(s)
    narrative identity
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  • Keyword(s)
    nomological network
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  • Keyword(s)
    assessment
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    Narrative identity’s nomological network: Expanding and organizing assessment of the storied self
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  • DRO type
    article
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  • Journal title
    Personality Science
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    PsychOpen GOLD
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  • Visible tag(s)
    Accepted Manuscript
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