Model of Narrative Analysis of Personal Identity Style

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Abstract

Th is article represents the Model of Narrative analysis of Personal Identity Style framed, methodologically and theoretically, in a narrative-existential approach. Socio-cognitive mechanisms of identity construction by the Life Decisions processes are discussed. Th e coordination of the causal attribution cognitive schema and identity styles are analyzed. A narrative schema of autobiography is studied as the basic instrument of autobiographical reasoning, self-integration and identity construction. Empirically provided covariation between self-narrative structure of self-defi ning memories, typical narrative coherence of autobiography, and identity construction stratagems, positive re-interpretation and valuation of negative experience, the positioning of the Self as an Author of one’s life. Th e technique of Self-narrative schema coding (the ‘Golden Fish’ metaphor of coding system) in frame of this Model is presented for the fi rst time. Th e discursive context of modern identity phenomena such as Null Identity, Self-illusion and Existential Identity is disclosed.

General Information

Keywords: identity, Self-Narrative, autobiography, narrative schema, narrative coherence, identity style, identity construction, existential psychology, narrative psychology, self-illusion

Journal rubric: General Psychology, Personality Psychology, History of Psychology

Article type: scientific article

For citation: Zaitseva Y.E. Model of Narrative Analysis of Personal Identity Style. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology, 2016. no. 4, pp. 6–22. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Yulia E. Zaitseva, PhD in Psychology, associate professor, St. Petersburg State University, St.Petersburg, Russia, e-mail: J.E.Zaitseva@spbu.ru

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