Narrating the Generative Life
Narrating the Generative Life
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DOI：
10.1177/0956797614568318
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发表时间：
2015-04-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Guo, Jen
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作者：
McAdams, Dan P.;Guo, Jen
生育是成年人对促进后代福祉的关切和承诺。通过对中年晚期成年人的长篇生活叙事访谈进行分析，我们研究了一种特定的生活故事在多大程度上与自我报告的生殖力指标和中年社会心理适应的其他指标有经验联系。结果表明，高生成力的成年人比低生成力的成年人更有可能将他们的生活描述为原型救赎叙事的变体，其中故事的主人公（a）在生活中享有早期优势，（B）对其他人的痛苦表现出敏感性，（c）发展出清晰的道德框架，（d）反复将消极场景转化为积极结果，（e）追求未来的亲社会目标。救赎性生命故事的心理和文化特征，以及心理科学中生命叙事研究的问题和潜力。
Generativity is an adult's concern for and commitment to promoting the well-being of future generations. Analyzing lengthy life-narrative interviews of late-midlife adults, we examined the extent to which a particular kind of life story is empirically linked to self-report measures of generativity and other indices of psychosocial adaptation in midlife. The results showed that highly generative adults are significantly more likely than their less-generative counterparts to construe their lives as variations on a prototypical redemption narrative, wherein the story's protagonist (a) enjoys an early advantage in life, (b) exhibits sensitivity to the suffering of other people, (c) develops a clear moral framework, (d) repeatedly transforms negative scenes into positive outcomes, and (e) pursues prosocial goals for the future. The psychological and cultural features of redemptive life stories are considered, as are the problems and potentialities of life-narrative research in psychological science.