Mapping letters from the future: Exploring narrative processes of imagining the future
Mapping letters from the future: Exploring narrative processes of imagining the future
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映射未来的字母：探索想象未来的叙事过程
DOI：
10.1177/1359105314566607
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
J. Mooren
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作者：
Anneke M. Sools;T. Tromp;J. Mooren
本文使用健康促进工具《未来来信》来探讨人类想象未来的能力。从叙事的角度来看，来自未来的信件被认为是人类构建和理解未来自我和世界的各种形式的指示。这与理解人类心灵的解释性方法是一致的，它为心理学中目前占主导地位的解释性方法提供了另一种选择。在对来自未来的480封信进行定性分析的基础上，我们首先确定了信中的五个叙事过程：想象，评估，定向，表达情感和参与对话。其次，通过比较分析，我们确定了六种类型的这些过程是如何组织在信作为一个整体。这些类型在以下方面有所不同：功能性（五个过程中哪一个占主导地位）;时间性（前瞻性、回顾性和面向现在）;现在和未来之间的路径被描述的程度;以及想象的生动性。我们认为，这些类型可以用于叙事健康实践中的“途径”，以定位写信人在他们的道路上想象未来，而不是作为一个规范的分类。未来的研究应该集中在如何使用这些途径来导航到健康和福祉。
This article uses Letters from the Future (a health promotion instrument) to explore the human capacity of imagining the future. From a narrative perspective, letters from the future are considered to be indicative of a variety of forms through which human beings construct and understand their future selves and worlds. This is consistent with an interpretive approach to understanding the human mind, which offers an alternative for the current dominant causal-explanatory approach in psychology. On the basis of qualitative analysis of 480 letters from the future, collected online from a diverse group of Dutch and German persons, we first identified five narrative processes operating in the letters: imagining, evaluating, orienting, expressing emotions and engaging in dialogue. Second, using comparative analysis, we identified six types of how these processes are organized in the letters as a whole. These types differ regarding functionality (which of the five processes was dominant); temporality (prospective, retrospective and present-oriented); the extent to which a path between present and future was described; and the vividness of the imagination. We suggest that these types can be used in narrative health practice as ‘pathways’ to locate where letter writers are on their path to imagine the future, rather than as a normative taxonomy. Future research should focus on how these pathways can be used to navigate to health and well-being.