That Was a Good Story! Preliminary Construction of the Perceived Story Quality Index

Baron, Jacqueline M.; Bluck, Susan

doi:10.1080/01638531003702109

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“…McAdams (2006b) adds that the kinds of stories that constitute narrative identity must also advance living action, influencing how we live. Our experience as researchers using narrative methods aligns with research which demonstrates that most individuals within a given culture rely on similar implicit theories about story quality (e.g., Baron & Bluck, 2011 empirical ways (to demonstrate convergent, divergent, and incremental validity) when studying topics that have received prior empirical attention.…”

Section: Coding Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…1 Operationalizing narrative quality is a complex issue and multiple frameworks have been proposed. Most suggest that a narrative ought to have a coherent episodic structure (e.g., McCabe & Peterson, 1984), include rich detail (e.g., Baron & Bluck, 2009) including emotional detail (e.g., Baron & Bluck, 2011), are engaging to listeners/readers (e.g., Baron & Bluck, 2011), and provide convincing causal explanations for the self (e.g., Narratives are typically obtained alongside responses to questionnaire data. There are no established best practices about the order in which data should be collected.…”

Section: Collecting Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Research Methods for Studying Narrative Identity: A Primer

Adler¹,

Dunlop²,

Fıvush³

et al. 2017

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Robyn Fivush is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology at Emory University, Associated Faculty with the Department of Women's Studies, and a Senior Fellow in the Center for the Study of Law and Religion. Her research focuses on the social construction of autobiographical memory and the relations among memory, narrative, identity, trauma, and coping.Jennifer P. Lilgendahl Haverford College jlilgend@haverford.edu Jennifer Pals Lilgendahl is an associate professor of psychology at Haverford College. Her research examines processes of self-definition and identity construction in adolescence and adulthood, with a specific focus on how people connect memories of past events to the present self through the narration of a life story.

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Section: Coding Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Collecting Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research Methods for Studying Narrative Identity: A Primer

Adler¹,

Dunlop²,

Fıvush³

et al. 2017

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“…Narrative is a powerful tool in everyday life (McLean et al 2007) and story-telling is ubiquitous across cultures (US college students; Baron and Bluck 2011;Bruner 1986). The current study assessed Taiwanese women's narrative identity in terms of a self-defining memory at a turning point.…”

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confidence: 99%

Young Women in Today’s Taiwan: Relation of Identity Status and Redemptive Narration to Psychological Well-Being

2015

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The task of identity development is a process of balancing multiple values (Grotevant and Cooper 1998). For young women living in a society where values are in transition, such as Taiwan, this task may be particularly challenging. Forging their identity as an adult woman may have implications for their well-being. Adopting a mixed-method approach, the current study investigated two aspects of undergraduate Taiwanese women's identity development: identity status and narrative identity. The study assessed achieved and diffused identity status as well as redemption and contamination, two aspects of narrative identity, as independent predictors of women's psychological well-being. Eighty-five undergraduate women in Northern Taiwan (M age=19.92, SD= 1.58) completed the Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status. To assess aspects of narrative identity, they also provided a Self-Defining Memory narrative of a turning point in their lives. Specific interpretation sequences (i.e., redemption versus contamination) were reliably content-coded from the narratives. A Psychological Well-Being scale was also administered. As expected, results of hierarchical regressions show that having an achieved identity status (as found in US samples) predicts higher psychological well-being. Notably, however, showing redemption (i.e., as compared to contamination) in one's narrative also uniquely predicted higher psychological well-being. Sociocultural factors and psychological processes that are associated with Taiwanese women's identity development are discussed.

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“…Orben and Dunbar () found passive receivers of highly intimate (compared to low or moderate) fictitious blog posts, felt less close to the blogger. Possibly, autobiographical stories that are engaging and emotional (Baron & Bluck, ), as in this study, cross the threshold of acceptable intimacy between strangers for an initial CMC.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 87%

“…Orben and Dunbar (2017) found passive receivers of highly intimate (compared to low or moderate) fictitious blog posts, felt less close to the blogger. Possibly, autobiographical stories that are engaging and emotional (Baron & Bluck, 2011), as in this study, cross the threshold of acceptable intimacy between strangers for an initial CMC. It seems that the receiver's perceptions of the communication and of the sharer (Sprecher et al, 2013), not only the fixed properties of a platform (e.g., in-person, IM), also governs the extent to which social bonds are formed in CMC (Walther, 2011).…”

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The Social Function of Autobiographical Stories in the Personal and Virtual World: An Initial Investigation

Alea

Bluck

Mroz

et al. 2018

Topics in Cognitive Science

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Receiving another's autobiographical story may serve to elicit feelings of liking and empathy for the story sharer. Research has mostly examined social functions of autobiographical stories for in-person communications. The current experiment (N = 60) examined whether levels of liking, closeness, and empathy felt for a stranger (female confederate) after receiving her story depended on if (a) the story was received in-person or through instant message (IM), and (b) the story was positive or negative. Liking and having empathy for the stranger was higher in the in-person conditions compared to IM conditions. This effect was mediated by how engaged participants were with the story. Participants liked the stranger more after receiving the positive autobiographical story, but they felt more empathy toward her after the negative autobiographical story. The discussion considers parameters of the communication platform and people's perceptions of stories as explanations for the results. Limitations are considered.

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That Was a Good Story! Preliminary Construction of the Perceived Story Quality Index

Cited by 31 publications

References 43 publications

Research Methods for Studying Narrative Identity: A Primer

Research Methods for Studying Narrative Identity: A Primer

Young Women in Today’s Taiwan: Relation of Identity Status and Redemptive Narration to Psychological Well-Being

The Social Function of Autobiographical Stories in the Personal and Virtual World: An Initial Investigation

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