PSYD30H3 Lecture 9: Lecture 9
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Narrative identity: narrative perspective is the author, narrative identity: narratives on self. Narrative coherence: temporal around birth, no cultural influence, biographical around 2 years, the impact on culture. Conventional story of what life should contain: causal we may hypothesis that we are what we are because of our circumstances or environment we live in, thematic not necessarily guaranteed to all. The life course and life story: you start to focus on future generations in mid-life, protypical commitment story. Redemption: consists of negative events that turn into positive outcome, contamination is uncommon: turn good things go bad. Strong correlation to self-esteem and life satisfaction. Role of agency and communion: communion: interpersonal love, intimacy, relationship, agency: self-relevant power, achievement. Affective processing: positive valence: met positive people and had positive feeling. Connects with relatedness: negative valence: you had no positive event or friends. Exploratory processing: characterized by the complex evaluative meaning of the experience to the individual, coherence, causal description.
