Living into the story: Agency and coherence in a longitudinal study of narrative identity development and mental health over the course of psychotherapy.

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan M. Adler
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Narrative Identity

scholarly journals Stability and change in autobiographical reasoning: A 4‐year longitudinal study of narrative identity development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate C. McLean ◽  
David Dunlap ◽  
Sarah C. Jennings ◽  
Nicole S. Litvitskiy ◽  
Jennifer P. Lilgendahl
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Stability And Change ◽  
Autobiographical Reasoning

scholarly journals Stability and Change in Autobiographical Reasoning: A Four-Year Longitudinal Study of Narrative Identity Development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate C. McLean ◽  
David Dunlap ◽  
Sarah Jennings ◽  
Nicole Litvitskiy ◽  
Jennifer Lilgendahl
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Developmental Differences ◽  
Stability And Change ◽  
Level Change ◽  
Adult Personality ◽  
Autobiographical Reasoning

Objective. Research on personality development has traditionally focused on rank-order stability and mean-level change in the context of personality traits. The present study expands this approach to the examination of change and stability at another level of personality – narrative identity – by focusing on autobiographical reasoning. Drawing from theory in personality and developmental science, we examine stability and change in exploratory processing and positive and negative self-event connections. Method. We take advantage of a longitudinal study of emerging adult personality and identity development, which includes four waves of data across four years, examining reasoning in two domains of identity, academics and romance (n = 1520 narratives; n = 176 – 638 participants, depending on the analysis). Results. We found moderate rank-order stability in autobiographical reasoning, but more so for exploratory processing than self-event connections. We found mean-level increases for exploratory processing in the context of romance, and stability in the context of academics. For self-event connections, we saw a decrease for positive connections, and for negative connections about romance, with stability for negative connections about academics. Conclusions. Implications include developmental differences in types of reasoning, as well as the sensitivity of narrative identity to revealing the contextual nature of personality development.

A Longitudinal Study of Mental Health in Emerging Adults

2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica S. Bachmann ◽  
Hansjörg Znoj ◽  
Katja Haemmerli
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Need Satisfaction ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Consistency Model ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Health Model

Emerging adulthood is a time of instability. This longitudinal study investigated the relationship between mental health and need satisfaction among emerging adults over a period of five years and focused on gender-specific differences. Two possible causal models were examined: (1) the mental health model, which predicts that incongruence is due to the presence of impaired mental health at an earlier point in time; (2) the consistency model, which predicts that impaired mental health is due to a higher level of incongruence reported at an earlier point in time. Emerging adults (N = 1,017) aged 18–24 completed computer-assisted telephone interviews in 2003 (T1), 2005 (T2), and 2008 (T3). The results indicate that better mental health at T1 predicts a lower level of incongruence two years later (T2), when prior level of incongruence is controlled for. The same cross-lagged effect is shown for T3. However, the cross-lagged paths from incongruence to mental health are marginally associated when prior mental health is controlled for. No gender differences were found in the cross-lagged model. The results support the mental health model and show that incongruence does not have a long-lasting negative effect on mental health. The results highlight the importance of identifying emerging adults with poor mental health early to provide support regarding need satisfaction.

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