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- Eriksson, Py Liv, 1986, et al.
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Perspectives on adult identity development
- 2021
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Ingår i: Roundtable Discussion presented at the European Society in Adult Development (ESRAD) online Conference, Jönköping, Sweden..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Identity development is an important psychosocial task not only in adolescence but also in adulthood since it provides the individual with a feeling of continuity between past, present and future (Erikson, 1968). This means that the identity continues to grow and develop in adulthood and that issues pertaining to the identity are important to adult development (Fadjukoff & Kroger, 2016). Identity issues can be examined in many ways and this roundtable discussion will address how to examine adult identity development from different perspectives and what can be gained by examining adult identity in this way. Four researchers in a roundtable discussion format will describe how their perspective on adult development focusing on identity and adult development. The panel will discuss three main questions: 1) how do you explore identity among adults? 2) why do you use this identity perspective on adult development?, and 3) what can your perspective on identity and tell us about adult development? The panel of this roundtable discussion consist of four researchers who explore adult identity from different perspectives. Fanny Gyberg (University of Gothenburg) conduct mixed methods research on how young adults configure their work and family identities to a workable whole. Gustaf Glavå (University of Gothenburg) studies the lifespan development of fathers’ involvement in their children’s life’s and its relation to identity-bearing factors. Caroline Järdmo (University of Gothenburg) studies the importance of close relations for the identity of young adults. Ylva Svensson (University West) explores ethnic identity development of young adults from different backgrounds, mainly by analyzing written narratives and mixed methods. Py Liv Eriksson conduct research on challenging experiences and their impact on adult identity development.
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- Järdmo, Caroline, 1986, et al.
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Creating something new from past experiences - The meaning of change in repeated narratives
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of personality. - : Wiley. - 0022-3506 .- 1467-6494. ; 91:6, s. 1294-1313
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective: Narrative identity is an essential level of personality, and to de-velop, the life narrative should entail both stability and change. In this study, we examine the meaning of change in repeated narratives about occupational experiences. Method: Fifty- nine individuals were interviewed at age 25, 29, and 33. In these interviews 544 narratives and 142 sets of repeated narratives were identified, of these 39 sets of repeated narratives had changed between interviews. A thematic narrative analysis was conducted focusing on the meaning of change in repeated narratives. Results: The analysis resulted in five narrative themes: Gaining insights about one's identity, transforming views of past challenges, increasing agency, increas-ing motivation for occupational commitments, and accentuating competence and importance. In the context of occupational experiences, the results from the nar-rative themes illuminate how narrators repeatedly engage with the same narra-tive to elaborate their narrative identity. Conclusion: This study presents a novel method for capturing identity devel-opment, which show that changes in repeated narratives can entail important information about identity growth as well as the way narrators create new stories of their previous experiences in order to continue to make sense of their lives.
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- Järdmo, Caroline, 1986, et al.
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Creating something new from past experiences - The meaning of change in repeated narratives
- 2023
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Ingår i: European Society in Adult Development (ESRAD) hybrid Conference, Greenwich, United Kingdom, May 12-14..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background and Aim: The stories people tell about their present, past and future selves are highly important for identity development (McAdams, 1985; Kroger & Marcia, 2011), not least in adulthood. To maintain one’s identity as a subjective coherent sense of self, continuous over time, the identity also needs to be reworked and developed throughout life in response to new experiences (Erikson, 1968; McAdams, 2013). Therefore, identity defining narratives should entail both stability and change (Adler, 2019). The aim of this study is to examine the meaning of change in repeated narratives about occupational experiences. Method: Fifty-nine individuals were interviewed at age 25, 29 and 33. In these interviews 544 narratives and 142 sets of repeated narratives were identified, of these 39 sets of repeated narratives had changed between interviews. A thematic narrative analysis was conducted focusing on the meaning of change in repeated narratives. Result: The analysis of the meaning of change in the repeated narratives resulted in five themes: Gaining insights about one’s identity, Transforming views of past challenges, Increasing agency, Increasing motivation for occupational commitments, and Accentuating competence and importance. In the context of occupational experiences, the results from the narrative themes illuminate how narrators repeatedly engage with the same narrative to elaborate their narrative identity. Discussion and Implications: This study presents a novel method for capturing identity development, which show that changes in repeated narratives can entail important information about identity growth as well as the way narrators create new stories of their previous experiences in order to continue to make sense of their lives.
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- Järdmo, Caroline, 1986, et al.
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Repeated narration in the work domain among young adults
- 2021
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Ingår i: European Society in Adult Development (ESRAD) online Conference, Jönköping, Sweden, April 23-25..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The stories people tell about their present, past and future selves are highly important for identity development (McAdams, 1985; Kroger & Marcia, 2011), not least in adulthood. To maintain ones identity as a subjective coherent sense of self, continuous over time, the identity also needs to be reworked and developed throughout life in response to new experiences (Erikson, 1968; McAdams, 2013). Aspects of both stability and change are important in identity defining narratives (Adler, 2019). One way of examine stability is by examining repeated narration over time. Little is known about the number of repeated narratives within contexts salient to identity, e.g. occupation. The aim of this study is to examine the presence of repeated narratives in the occupation domain. Method: 36 young adults were interviewed at age 25, 29 and 33 using the occupational domain of the Identity Status Interview. A codebook was developed to find narratives and to indicate if they were repeated. Reliability coding of number of narratives per interview occasion and number of repeated events across occasions indicated good reliability. Result: All participants told a narrative in at least 1 of the 3 interview occasions, varying between 1 and 9 narratives per interview with a mean of 3 narratives. All participants repeated at least 1 narrative over 2 or more interview occasions, varying between 1 and 5 with a mean of 2,4 repeated events. Most common was to repeat over all 3 interview occasions (33 narratives), followed by repeating between ages 25 and 29 (20 narratives), 25 and 33 (17 narratives) and lastly 29 and 33 (15 narratives). Discussion and Implications: Results show that there is a high presence of narratives that are repeated over time when young adults are interviewed about their occupation, with repetition over all interview occasions being most common, indicating a high degree of stability. Forthcoming research will investigate identity defining changes in stories that adults repeat over time
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- Järdmo, Caroline, 1986, et al.
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Stability and Change in Repeated Narratives About Occupational Identity
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Society for Research on Identity (ISRI) online conference, Tufts University, Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, June 3-4..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Narrative identity is the meaningful evolving story of the self that individuals construct and internalize in order to make sense of their lives (McAdams & McLean, 2013). The story connects the autobiographical past and the imagined future through reconstruction of memories, and serves to explain how the person came to be, and where his or her life may be going (McAdams, 2011). The identity needs to be reworked and developed throughout life in response to new experiences (Erikson, 1968; McAdams, 2013). Thus, aspects of both stability, such as continuity, and change, such as growth, are important for narrative identity. Recent research on narrative identity has started to focus more on examining repeated narration, that is, similar content that an individual repeat across different occasions, in order to more fully understand the complexity of stability and change in narratives (e.g. Adler, 2019; Dunlop, 2019; Fivush, Habermas, & Reese, 2019; McAdams, 2019; McLean, Köber & Haralssson, 2019; Pasupathi & Wainryb, 2019; Singer, 2019). The aim of this study was to examine how repeated narratives change between interview sessions conducted at three time points, four years apart, and what function the changes in repeated narratives have for individuals’ identity. A community sample of 59 young Swedish adults were interviewed at age 25, 29 and 33. The interviews focused on occupational identity (one domain of the Identity Status Interview, Marcia et al., 1993). In order to identify narratives and to determine if the narrative was repeated, we developed a codebook. Reliability coding of number of narratives per interview occasion and number of repeated events across occasions indicated good reliability (ICC = .89 for number of narratives and .82 for number of repeated narratives). The 59 participants told a total of 544 narratives across the three interview occasions and there were 141 repeated sets of narratives, that is, narratives that were repeated across two or three interview occasions. For the analysis, we used an exploratory, data-driven, case-centered approach (Adler et al., 2017; Riessman, 2008) and examined each set of repeated narratives separately for each individual. The results showed three areas of change within the repeated identity narratives: change of amount of details, change of emotional tone and change of characters with two themes under each area. Findings suggested that there was a high degree of repeated narratives across the interview occasions and that individuals change their repeated narratives in various ways, indicating how the meaning and function of the narrative had changed and become more, or less, important for their identity at present.
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- Carlsson, Johanna, 1985, et al.
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Narrative identity development of youth in secure care in Sweden
- 2024
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Ingår i: International Society for Research on Identity 30th Anniversary Conference.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The study explored narrative identity development of youth in secure care in Sweden. Narrative content and structure (emotional sequence and meaning making) in 503 personal narratives written as a voluntary part of the school curriculum for youth in secure care were analyzed. Preliminary findings showed that the story content was dominated by what it is like being in secure care, descriptions of own destructive behavior, and experiences of hardship, though positive themes were also present. Meaning making was identified in about half of the stories. There was diversity in emotional tone, but hopefulness towards the future was a distinct theme.
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- Eriksson, Py Liv, 1986
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Developing into early adulthood: The role of identity and personality
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate the development into early adulthood, focusing on identity and personality. The aim of Study I was to explore the developmental course and implications of the two meta-traits ego resiliency (i.e., individuals’ capacity to adjust to their environment) and ego control (i.e., level of impulse restraint) from childhood (age 2) to early adulthood (age 33), N = 139. In general, the rank-order stability of proximal waves was consistently high for ego resiliency and ego control. Latent growth curve models showed that ego resiliency displayed high mean-level stability over time. Ego control demonstrated greater change in childhood relative to adolescence and adulthood. Analyses with intercepts and slopes of ego resiliency and ego control as predictors of adult well-being revealed associations with well-being, but these were generally accounted for by the Big Five traits. This study shows that ego resiliency and ego control are fairly stable personality constructs from childhood to adulthood, and highlights their association with adult adaptation. The aim of Study II was to investigate identity development across early adulthood (ages 25, 29, and 33, N=118). Investigations of identity status revealed that fewer individuals were in the moratorium status (i.e., current exploration of identity) and more were in the identity achievement status (i.e., identity exploration before establishing commitments) in later years. At the individual level, stable identity statuses with established commitments were by far the most common patterns. Longitudinal qualitative analyses of identity interviews showed three processes of identity development within these stable patterns: approach to change, story integration, and participation in a broader life context. These results show how early adults maintain and evolve their identity within status stability. The aim of Study III was to use a cultural framework to understand how narratives of difficult experiences are told among early adults in Sweden (age 33, N = 116), and then to examine the relations between these narrative patterns and well-being. Employing an open-exploratory approach, four equally prevalent emotional sequences were found: redemptive sequencing, neutral/vague sequencing, combination of positive and negative sequencing, and negative sequencing. While no differences were found in the use of the first three emotional sequences for well-being, the negative sequencing was associated with poorer well-being. These results show that there are several ways to narrate difficult experiences in the Swedish context. In conclusion, this thesis illuminates the important role of personality and identity – two central aspects of the understanding of the self – in people’s psychological development and well-being.
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- Eriksson, Py Liv, 1986, et al.
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Facing Challenging Experiences in Life – Narrative Identity Development Processes and Associations with Wellbeing During the Transition to Midlife
- 2024
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Ingår i: Identity. - 1528-3488 .- 1532-706X. ; 24:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates identity development in narratives of difficult experiences and associations with wellbeing in the transition to midlife. The narrative processes of emotional sequencing (i.e. emotional tone of how people frame their experiences: redemptive, neutral/vague, negative, and a combination of positive and negative) and positive and negative impact on the identity (i.e. how people perceive the impact of the narrated event) were examined in narratives about difficult experiences in early adulthood (Mage = 33.28, SD=0.54) and midlife (Mage = 38.62, SD =0.61). Results concerning emotional sequencing showed two typical patterns one of stability in neutral/vague sequencing, and another pattern of change from a combination of positive and negative to redemptive sequencing. Furthermore, positive and negative impact in early adulthood was associated with wellbeing in midlife. Findings in this study show that people who are neutral in their way of framing challenges maintain this outlook on life’s difficulties in the transition to midlife. The results also indicate that perceived negative impact of narrated events, and not only positive impact, in early adulthood has bearing on wellbeing during midlife.
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- Eriksson, Py Liv, 1986
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Identity and personality development with a focus on early adulthood
- 2019
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate identity and personality development with a focus on early adulthood. The aim of Study I was to investigate identity development across early adulthood at three measurement points, ages 25, 29 and 33 (N=118). A sequential mixed-methods design was used, and the data analysis was thus performed in different steps. First, quantitative investigations of stability and change in identity status revealed some group-level changes over time, with fewer individuals in the moratorium status (i.e., current exploration of identity) and more individuals in the identity achievement status (i.e., identity exploration before establishing commitments). However, typical and atypical patterns of individual stability and change between adjacent waves showed that stability in identity status development with established commitments (i.e., identity achievement and foreclosure) across early adulthood were by far the most common patterns. In the second step, in order to understand the underlying processes of these stable patterns, the patterns were examined through qualitative analyses. In this part, the two dominant perspectives of identity development were combined: the identity status model and the narrative approach. Qualitative analysis of the narratives from the status interviews of each participant’s development from age 29 to 33 revealed three processes of identity development: Approach to Change, Narrative Coherence, and Participation in a Broader Life Context. This study demonstrated that there are significant changes within stable identity status patterns, and that identity development in early adulthood requires individuals to reflect, adjust, and evolve their identity. The aim of Study II was to explore the developmental course and implications of ego resiliency and control from childhood (starting at age 2) to early adulthood (age 33). The sample consisted of 139 participants, who were assessed nine times between ages 2 and 33. The developmental course and implications of the personality meta-traits ego resiliency (i.e., the individuals’ capacity to adjust to their environment) and ego control (i.e., level of impulse restraint) were examined. In general, the rank-order stability of proximal waves was consistently high for ego resiliency and ego control. Further, latent growth curve models were used to examine mean-level stability and change in ego resiliency and control. These analyses showed that ego resiliency displayed high stability over time. Ego control demonstrated stability over the full time span, but there was greater change in childhood relative to adolescence and adulthood. Analyses with intercepts and slopes of ego resiliency and ego control as predictors of adult well-being at age 33 showed associations with well-being, but these associations were generally accounted for by the Big Five traits. Finally, ego resiliency and control in childhood and adolescence were, albeit to a lesser extent, associated with adult identity development with regard to commitments and ego resiliency to previous exploration. This study shows that the meta-traits of ego resiliency and control are fairly stable personality constructs from childhood to adulthood and also highlights their association with adult adaptation, which also suggests that personality traits may give an early indication of identity processes. In conclusion, this thesis shows how identity and personality – two central aspects of development – evolve over time, as well as how these aspects of development are related. The two studies of this thesis focus especially on the period of early adulthood, and demonstrate processes of how people maintain their identity and how earlier development can influence adaptation in early adulthood.
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- Eriksson, Py Liv, 1986, et al.
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Identity Development in Early Adulthood
- 2020
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Ingår i: Developmental Psychology. - : American Psychological Association (APA). - 0012-1649 .- 1939-0599. ; 56:10, s. 1968-1983
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This longitudinal study investigated identity development across early adulthood. To examine both stability and change in identity development, an explanatory mixed-methods design was employed. First, patterns of identity status development across early adulthood were examined, followed by an in-depth qualitative approach to understand more about the processes within identity status stability from the late 20s into the 30s. Analyses revealed group-level changes in identity status across ages 25 (M-age = 24.9, SD = 0.7), 29 (M-age = 29.3, SD = 0.6), and 33 (M-age = 33.3, SD = 0.5) among the 118 participants, with fewer individuals in moratorium and more in identity achievement in later years. Stable identity statuses with established commitments (identity achievement and foreclosure) were by far the most common patterns across early adulthood. To understand how early adults maintain their identity within these stable patterns, we employed longitudinal qualitative analyses of identity status interviews from ages 29 and 33. These analyses revealed 3 processes of identity development: approach to change (willingness to adjust and evolve previously established commitments), story integration (thematic and temporal integration, and metaexploration of previous identity work), and participation in a broader life context (identity expanding beyond personal aspirations). Together, these findings show that there is identity status change toward maturity across early adulthood and high stability within individual patterns. The findings also show that stable identity achievement facilitates further deepening within the three processes of identity development, and that stable foreclosure can be connected to both weakening and deepening in identity development.
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- Eriksson, Py Liv, 1986, et al.
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Identity Development in Early Adulthood: A Continuous Journey
- 2018
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Ingår i: The Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) biennial meeting. Minneapolis, USA: 12-14 April, 2018.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- To understand how people develop their identities in early adulthood and learn more about how identity in the twenties influences later development this study investigates identity development with a longitudinal design and integrates the identity status model with a narrative approach. Three research questions guided the investigations: (1) Which patterns of identity status change and stability may be observed throughout early adulthood? (2) Which processes of change may be identified within identity narratives from individuals coded to the same identity status, with established commitments, across early adulthood? (3) What is the relation between processes of change in identity narratives in the twenties and development in the early thirties, and does this differ between individuals coded to identity achievement and foreclosure across early adulthood? Identity status interviews (Marcia et al., 1993) were performed with 118 individuals (59 women) at ages 25, 29 and 33. Analyses revealed group-level changes in identity status across the three waves. However, typical patterns of individual identity status development between adjacent waves were patterns of stability in foreclosure (n= 20) or identity achievement (n= 25) (see Figure 1). In order to learn more about processes involved in maintaining identity commitments from age 25 into the early thirties identity narratives from individuals who followed these two stable patterns were investigated with longitudinal qualitative analysis. Case-summaries of similarities and differences between each participant’s interview narrative from, ages 25 and 29, as well as from age 29 and 33 were analyzed with thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006). These analyses resulted in a model, with three processes of identity development across the twenties and three processes of identity development across the early thirties (see Figure 2). All processes described changes on a continuum between two endpoints: the weakening endpoint reflected a shallower, more closed and firm identity narrative and the deepening endpoint reflected a richer identity narrative that had evolved between the interview occasions. Qualitative case-based analysis of participants’ development across the two models of identity development showed that evolved and flexible narratives (i.e., those involving processes of deepening) in the twenties were related to one or more processes of deepening, and no processes of shallower and firmer narratives (weakening) in the early thirties. The capacity to adjust the narrative to changing life conditions during the twenties was especially important for a continued development. However, individuals with shallower and firmer narratives in the twenties showed more varied results indicating more individual differences and could either continue in this weakening direction in their early thirties or evolve their identity narratives. With regards to identity status, most individuals coded to a stable achieved identity status continued to evolve their identity narrative from age 25 into the early thirties. The group of individuals coded to a stable foreclosed status showed diverse patterns of development with either continued processes of weakening or deepening, or a change in the opposite direction of their previous development. These results indicate development in identity narratives across early adulthood even without engaging in exploration before commitments are established.
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- Eriksson, Py Liv, 1986, et al.
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Methodological Choices in Narrative Identity Research
- 2017
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Ingår i: 24th Annual Conference International Society for Research on Identity (ISRI) Conference. Groningen, The Netherlands, May 18-21.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The main focus in this presentation part of an interactive session on collecting narratives concerned collecting narratives with the identity status interview (Marcia, Waterman, Mattesson, Archer, & Orlofsky, 1993) and with this approach conduct longitudinal analysis of identity narratives (see e.g., Carlsson, Wängqvist, & Frisén, 2015; Wängqvist, Carlsson, van der Lee, & Frisén, 2016). By using the identity status interview this provides possibilities to investigate changes across time in the identity narratives (i.e., narrative change and stability), and explore mechanism behind processes of identity narrative development beyond exploration and commitment. This method also provides possibilities to investigate content of identity narratives and relation between identity processes and content in the narratives, all which can provide a deeper understanding of identity development.
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- Eriksson, Py Liv, 1986, et al.
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Narrating Difficult Experiences – A Cultural Framework For Telling Identity Narratives in Sweden
- 2019
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Ingår i: The International Society for Research on Identity (ISRI) 26th Annual Conference, Naples, Italy, May 13-15.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study investigates a cultural framework for telling identity narratives of difficult life experiences among Swedish adults, and relations between narrative patterns and well-being. Narratives of life challenges were collected from 116 participants (M = 33.28, SD = .54, n = 58 women). Inductive coding was employed examining variations in ending valence. Four emotional endings were found: Neutral/vague ending, Negative ending, Redemptive ending and a Combination of positive and negative ending. Redemptive endings were associated with more life satisfaction than negative endings and Neutral/vague endings were related to less psychological distress than negative endings.
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- Eriksson, Py Liv, 1986, et al.
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Narrativt perspektiv på identitet
- 2020
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Ingår i: I A. Frisén & P. Hwang (Red:er, 2:a utg.) Ungdomar och identitet. - Stockholm : Natur och Kultur. - 9789127827738 ; , s. 49-66
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Eriksson, Py Liv, 1986, et al.
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Ta Det Onda Med Det Goda (Accepting the Bad that Comes with the Good) - A Cultural Framework for Identity Narratives of Difficult Experiences in Sweden
- 2020
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Ingår i: Identity. An International Journal of Theory and Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1528-3488 .- 1532-706X. ; 20:3, s. 157-169
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates the nature of narrating experiences of difficult life events among Swedish young adults. We use the master narrative cultural framework to understand how narratives of difficult experiences are told. Building on extant work on the importance of the narration of difficult life events for identity and wellbeing, we examine how these stories are narrated in the Swedish context in relation to well-being. Identity narratives about life challenges were collected from 116 participants (Mage = 33.28, SD = .54, n = 58 women). Employing an open-exploratory approach, four equally prevalent emotional sequences were found: redemptive sequencing, neutral/vague sequencing, a combination of positive and negative sequencing, and negative sequencing. No differences were found in the use of the first three emotional sequences for well-being, but the negative sequencing was generally associated with poorer well-being. This study shows that there are several ways to narrate difficult experiences in the Swedish context, and sheds light on how culture informs narrative identity.
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- Eriksson, Py Liv, 1986, et al.
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Understanding Identity Development in Early Adulthood: Integrating the Complexity of Individual Experiences and Different Theoretical Perspectives
- 2017
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Ingår i: The International Society for Research on Identity (ISRI) 24th Annual Conference. Groningen, The Netherlands, May 18-21.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study investigates patterns of identity development across early adulthood and the developmental processes behind this development by combining the identity status model with a narrative approach. Identity status interviews were performed with 118 Swedish individuals at ages 25, 29 and 33. The most common patterns of individual identity status development were patterns of stability in foreclosure (n= 20) or identity achievement (n= 25). Qualitative longitudinal analysis of these participants interview narratives resulted in a model with three processes of identity development in early adulthood: ‘Approach to change’, ‘Narrative coherence’ and ‘Participation in a broader life context’.
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- Frisén, Ann, 1963, et al.
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Identity Development Processes
- 2019
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Ingår i: In S. Hupp & J. Jewell (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development. Wiley Online Library. - : Wiley. - 9781119161899
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Larsson, Hanna, 1991, et al.
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“It’s a New Chapter Now”: Establishing Commitments in the Romantic Domain during Young Adulthood
- 2020
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Ingår i: Identity. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1528-3488 .- 1532-706X. ; 20:1, s. 37-57
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This longitudinal study examines identity development in the domain of romantic relationships during young adulthood and what the process of establishing commitments without exploration in this domain involves. Identity status in the romantic relationships domain was assessed for 118 Swedish individuals at the ages of 29 and 33, using the Identity Status Interview. Identity diffusion was less common at age 33 than at age 29, whereas foreclosure, moratorium, and identity achievement were equally common at both ages. The majority of those assigned to identity diffusion at age 29 had transitioned to identity foreclosure by age 33. These nine participants were selected as a subsample for further analysis of the process of commitment-making, and changes in their identity narratives between age 29 (before establishing commitments) and age 33 (after establishing commitments) were examined using case-based thematic analysis. The results suggest that the commitment-making process involves changes in identity content, such as having more elaborate and positive views on romantic relationships, as well as changes related to identity processes, including narrating one’s experiences and views concerning romantic relationships in a more temporally integrated way.
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- Larsson, Hanna, 1991, et al.
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Longitudinal findings on pathways of identity development across emerging and established adulthood
- 2024
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Ingår i: International Society for Research on Identity 30th Anniversary Conference.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Longitudinal identity research is essential to increase our understanding of both typical identity processes, and the diversity of their pathways and mechanisms. In this symposium, findings are presented from exceptionally long longitudinal studies. In addition, both the potential of longitudinal studies and their challenges are considered. All presenters have fresh results from their latest data collections and will also discuss them based on previous longitudinal data. Hanna Larsson will present recent results from the Gothenburg Longitudinal Study of Development (GoLD). GoLD started in 1982 with a community sample of 144 one- to two-year-olds from Gothenburg, Sweden. During the last four waves of data collections (at ages 25, 29, 33, and 39), the Ego Identity Status Interview (Marcia et al., 1993) has been used to study multiple aspects of identity development. In this presentation, longitudinal patterns of identity status stability and change across all four time points will be presented along with results from qualitative analyses of interviews with participants stable in identity foreclosure or achievement.
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- Malm, Ida, et al.
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"Blissfully ignorant" - Unpacking ethnic identity within societal constructions of ethnicity in Sweden
- 2024
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Ingår i: International Society for Research on Identity (ISRI) Conference, Tilburg, The Netherlands, June 5-7..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study is a work in progress and the aim is to examine the ethnic identity among Swedish adults with a focus on the meaning of societal constructions of ethnicity for their ethnic identity. 28 participants who were 38-39 years old were interviewed about their identities and expectations related to ethnicity. A critical reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyze the interviews (Braun & Clarke, 2022). The goal for the analysis was to unpack participants’ responses and examine latent meanings of what participants were narrating as well as what they omitted during interviews. An abductive approach was applied where the analysis partly was data-driven, and partly informed by a narrative identity- and master narrative theoretical framework in order to obtain a framing of the analysis (Syed & McLean, 2023). The analysis has so far resulted in the development of four themes: 1) Fulfilling a desirable Swedish identity, 2) Race evasion hinders ethnic identity work, 3) Privilege shapes ethnic identities with absence of accountability, 4) Elusive structures create uncritical ethnic identities. As the analysis progresses, the meaning of societal constructions of ethnicity for the participants’ ethnic identity is increasingly shown in different opportunities and constraints for the development of their ethnic identity.
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- Mitchell, Lauren L, et al.
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A conceptual review of identity integration across adulthood.
- 2021
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Ingår i: Developmental psychology. - : American Psychological Association (APA). - 1939-0599 .- 0012-1649. ; 57:11, s. 1981-1990
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Though Erikson recognized identity development as a lifelong project, most research on identity has focused on adolescents and emerging adults. Less is known about how the identity formed in adolescence is maintained and adapted across the adult life span. The purpose of the present paper is to provide a conceptual review and elaboration of Erikson's (1968) theory focused on identity integration, a construct that is particularly relevant to adult identity development. Identity integration describes the process of bringing together various aspects of one's self into a coherent whole, and the sense of self-continuity and wholeness that emerges as a result of these processes. Informed by the identity and life span development literatures, we present a conceptual framework that describes how identity integration is maintained across the adult life span, and how it is reestablished when changing life circumstances present threats to an individual's identity. These maintenance and reestablishment processes help to support adults' well-being and adaptation to major life transitions and stressful events. This conceptual framework is intended to facilitate research on identity integration in adulthood, a time of life that has been less often studied in the identity literature but that can involve identity dynamics that are just as critical as those in adolescence. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Syed, Moin, et al.
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Personality development from age 2 to 33 : Stability and change in ego resiliency and ego control and associations with adult adaptation
- 2020
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Ingår i: Developmental Psychology. - : American Psychological Association (APA). - 0012-1649 .- 1939-0599. ; 56:4, s. 815-832
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this study was to examine the developmental course and implications of the personality metatraits ego resiliency and ego control across the first 3 decades of life. The sample consisted of 139 participants who were assessed 9 times between ages 2 and 33. Participants completed measures of ego resiliency, ego control, Big Five personality traits, identity development, and positive and negative well-being. The findings indicated strong stability of ego resiliency, in terms of both rank-order and mean-level change. Ego control also demonstrated stability over the full time span, but there was greater change in childhood relative to adolescence and adulthood. Ego resiliency and control were associated with adult well-being, but these associations were generally accounted for by the Big Five traits. Finally, there were small relations between ego resiliency and control in childhood and later adult identity development processes.
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- Wängqvist, Maria, 1977, et al.
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"Every Day has Enough of Its Own Torment"-A Narrative Study of Life's Greatest Challenge Among Men in Late Adulthood
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Adult Development. - 1068-0667.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this study was to investigate stories of life's greatest challenge among men in late adulthood from a narrative and developmental perspective. The investigations focused on narrative processes and the content of challenge narratives in relation to satisfaction with life and generativity. Narrative processes were analyzed using existing frameworks (Eriksson et al. Identity 20:157-169, 2020). The study showed negative, neutral/vague, redemptive, and a combination of positive and negative emotional sequences, among which negative sequencing was the most common. An additional narrative theme, metareflections of challenges as part of life, involved the conclusion that hardship is simply part of what one may expect from life. Analyses of types of challenges revealed six categories and a secondary coding the adversity of the challenges. In contrast to expectations, redemptive sequencing was not associated with either higher satisfaction with life or generativity. The few differences that emerged in the subsequent analyses showed that participants whose challenges were coded as not expected and potentially disruptive had significantly lower satisfaction with life and lower mean age when the challenge occurred. In conclusion, the study demonstrated the saliency of the challenges' timing and adversity. Negative framing was common in the challenge narratives of the men in late adulthood, without being negatively associated with satisfaction with life or generativity. The role of negative emotional sequencing in this study adds new perspectives to the emphasis on redemption and positive emotionality for well-being and generativity in later adulthood.
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