Family Stories and the Life Course: Across Time and Generations

ISBN-13: 9780805842821 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 450 str.

Michael W. Pratt; Barbara H. Fiese

Opis

Pratt (Wilfred Laurier University) and Fiese (Syracuse University) survey recent psychological research and theory on family stories, which are first-person accounts of personal experiences that have meaning to individuals and the family as a whole. Contributors focus on the act of telling family st

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Contents: Preface. M.W. Pratt, B.H. Fiese, Families, Stories, and the Life Course: An Ecological Context. Part I: Child Narratives: Competence and Attachment Development. C. Peterson, A. McCabe, Echoing Our Parents: Parental Influences on Children's Narration. R. Fivush, J. Bohanek, R. Robertson, M. Duke, Family Narratives and the Development of Children's Emotional Well-Being. E. Sher-Censor, D. Oppenheim, Coherence and Representations in Preschoolers' Narratives: Associations With Attachment in Infancy. J. Robinson, M. Eltz, Children's Empathic Representations in Relation to Early Caregiving Patterns Among Low-Income African American Mothers. Part II: Adolescent Narratives: Identity Development and Its Contexts. N. Dunbar, H.D. Grotevant, Adoption Narratives: The Construction of Adoptive Identity During Adolescence. M.L. Arnold, M.W. Pratt, C. Hicks, Adolescents' Representations of Parents' Voices in Family Stories: Value Lessons, Personal Adjustment, and Identity Development. A. Thorne, K.C. McLean, A. Dasbach, When Parents' Stories Go to Pot: Telling Personal Transgressions to Teenage Kids. Part III: Young Adulthood: Intimacy and Relationship Narratives. S. Dickstein, Marital Attachment and Family Functioning: Use of Narrative Methodology. Part IV: Midlife: Parenting and Narrative Socialization Processes in the Family. D.P. McAdams, Generativity and the Narrative Ecology of Family Life. B.H. Fiese, N. Bickham, Pin-Curling Grandpa's Hair in the Comfy Chair: Parents' Stories of Growing Up and Potential Links to Socialization in the Preschool Years. Q. Wang, The Cultural Context of Parent-Child Reminiscing: A Functional Analysis. H. Fung, P.J. Miller, L-C. Lin, Listening Is Active: Lessons From the Narrative Practices of Taiwanese Families. Part V: Aging and Grandparenthood in Narrative. O. Gould, Telling Stories and Getting Acquainted: How Age Matters. J.E. Norris, S. Kuiack, M.W. Pratt, "As Long as They Go Back Down the Driveway at the End of the Day": Stories of the Satisfactions and Challenges of Grandparenthood. E.B. Ryan, K. Pearce, A. Anas, J.E. Norris, Writing a Connection: Intergenerational Communication Through Stories. Part VI: Conclusions and Future Directions. B.H. Fiese, M.W. Pratt, Metaphors and Meanings of Family Stories: Integrating Life Course and Systems Perspectives on Narrative.

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Michael W. Pratt, Barbara H. Fiese