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Fishere, Mariam; Habermas, Tilmann – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2023
Individuals narrate stories to explain how they became who they are, forming their own narrative identity. Highly disruptive experiences such as child maltreatment (CM) may be challenging to integrate into the life story and even to narrate coherently just by themselves. To test these potential effects, we divided a total of 171 students at an…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Young Adults, Personal Narratives, Self Concept
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Köber, Christin; Habermas, Tilmann – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
In Western cultures, life narratives are typically expected to recount the narrator's life from birth to the present. Disparate autobiographical memories need to be integrated into a more or less coherent story, which is facilitated by an overarching temporal macrostructure. The temporal macrostructure consists of elaborated beginnings that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Autobiographies, Time