Narrative Psychology and Life Stories

Josselson, Ruthellen; Hopkins, Brent

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“…The framed visualizations contain emotion profiles for the same words on the left but coming from the free association network and referring to mind-wandering in the absence of suicidal ideation. www.nature.com/scientificreports/ psychological theories, such as narrative psychology 1,58 and the meaning-maintenance model 2,59 , we can consider how the patterns observed in suicide notes fit with a broader understanding of the psychological literature.…”

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Revealing semantic and emotional structure of suicide notes with cognitive network science

Teixeira

Talaga

Swanson

et al. 2021

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Understanding how people who commit suicide perceive their cognitive states and emotions represents an important open scientific challenge. We build upon cognitive network science, psycholinguistics and semantic frame theory to introduce a network representation of suicidal ideation as expressed in multiple suicide notes. By reconstructing the knowledge structure of such notes, we reveal interconnections between the ideas and emotional states of people who committed suicide through an analysis of emotional balance motivated by structural balance theory, semantic prominence and emotional profiling. Our results indicate that connections between positively- and negatively-valenced terms give rise to a degree of balance that is significantly higher than in a null model where the affective structure is randomized and in a linguistic baseline model capturing mind-wandering in absence of suicidal ideation. We show that suicide notes are affectively compartmentalized such that positive concepts tend to cluster together and dominate the overall network structure. Notably, this positive clustering diverges from perceptions of self, which are found to be dominated by negative, sad conceptual associations in analyses based on subject-verb-object relationships and emotional profiling. A key positive concept is “love”, which integrates information relating the self to others and is semantically prominent across suicide notes. The emotions constituting the semantic frame of “love” combine joy and trust with anticipation and sadness, which can be linked to psychological theories of meaning-making as well as narrative psychology. Our results open new ways for understanding the structure of genuine suicide notes and may be used to inform future research on suicide prevention.

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Revealing semantic and emotional structure of suicide notes with cognitive network science

Teixeira

Talaga

Swanson

et al. 2021

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“…It is therefore a crucial time for the development of the self and the process of separation–individuation (Blos, 1962; Grotevant & Cooper, 1985; Josselson, 1980, 1988; White, Speisman, & Costos, 1983). Young adults must redefine family ties by extricating those dependent features of their sense of self that are embedded in family relationships and differentiate themselves from these by establishing a more autonomous and independent self (Baxter & Montgomery, 1996; Blos, 1979; Daniels, 1990; Lapsley, Rice, & Shadid, 1989).…”

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“Back to Square One”: The Experience of Straddling Adolescence and Early Adulthood in Unemployed UK University Graduates With Common Mental Health Issues

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We investigated the experiences of unemployed university graduates with common mental health issues. After conducting\ud semistructured interviews with 12 unemployed bachelor’s degree graduates with common mental health issues, we used\ud interpretative phenomenological analysis to generate three superordinate themes: “fall from grace,” “vulnerability,” and “life on\ud hold.” Our focus in this article is life on hold and its constituent themes: “stagnation,” “moving backward,” and “feeling left\ud behind.” Graduates struggled to complete the broader structural life transition from university student to the adult world of\ud work, experiencing a nebulous state of straddling adolescence and early adulthood. This undermined their sense of adult maturity,\ud leaving them vulnerable to becoming entrenched in their mental health-related difficulties. We discuss these findings in relation to\ud the developmental perspectives of life-course theory, status passages, and separation–individuation in early adulthood, which raise\ud important issues for the applicability of life-course frameworks for these graduates, who are a disadvantaged minority group

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“…Based on the theoretical framework presented above, we constructed a set of five indicators to help identify personal meanings: Goals; Personal Constructs; Identity; Affect; and Autobiographical Reasoning. These indicators are not used as a coding system (Josselson & Hopkins, ; Polkinghorne, ). The purpose of the holistic approach is not to assess the relative frequencies of, for example, goals versus affect .…”

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The Varieties of Religious Significance: An Idiographic Approach to Study Religion's Role in Adolescent Development

Schachter

Hur

2019

J of Research on Adolesc

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We present a rationale and method for taking an idiographic approach to study the role religion plays in adolescent development. We theorize that adolescents harness qualitatively different aspects of religion to address idiosyncratic developmental needs. Therefore, analyzing religion's role in adolescent development necessitates a case‐by‐case holistic analysis. We introduce a systematic method using narratives to identify the personal ways that individuals attribute meaning in general and regarding religion in particular. We present three detailed case studies from a sample of 20 religious Israeli Jewish Orthodox emerging‐adult women who provided retrospective narrative accounts of their general and religious development through adolescence. Systematic analysis reveals that religion was significant to these women in diverse and personal ways, addressing markedly different adolescent developmental needs.

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Narrative Psychology and Life Stories

Cited by 37 publications

References 36 publications

Revealing semantic and emotional structure of suicide notes with cognitive network science

Revealing semantic and emotional structure of suicide notes with cognitive network science

“Back to Square One”: The Experience of Straddling Adolescence and Early Adulthood in Unemployed UK University Graduates With Common Mental Health Issues

The Varieties of Religious Significance: An Idiographic Approach to Study Religion's Role in Adolescent Development

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