Pub Date : 2023-01-25DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2023.2168808
T. Holmes
Abstract This special section explores narrative identity through a constructivist lens. Drawing from multiple theoretical and methodological approaches, this scholarship offers new ways to consider how individuals construct their identities through storied exchanges and interpretations in and outside the research setting. Strategies for both researchers and clinicians are offered.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-25DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2023.2168806
Kim Bradley-Cole, P. Denicolo, Maxine Daniels
Abstract Qualitative research methods aim to produce some form of narrative for analysis and many alternative forms of narrative analysis exist, mostly informed by social constructionist perspectives. This creates a dilemma for personal constructivist researchers, who now have access to a plethora of methods for understanding and intervening in people’s sensemaking processes but are faced with a distinct absence of a uniquely personal constructivist method for analyzing the emerging narratives. This paper aims to outline a Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) (Kelly, 1955) view of the person as an agentic being and provide a contextualized, step by step guide for analyzing personal narratives from a Kellian perspective that encompasses identification and analysis of constructs, metaphors, roles, implicit beliefs and emotions. Kelly advocated working with the ‘whole’ person by credulously exploring their lived reality through the entirety of their emotions, cognitions and behaviors, which goes beyond an extraction of narrative themes or phenomenological interpretations contained in the realm of the person’s known world. In PCP, language is regarded as symbolic, contextual, performative, and incomplete but, unlike social constructionist approaches, the focus favors the identification and explanation of internal identity processes, social cognitions, and personal meanings, rather than how language is utilized externally as a cultural tool. By articulating an explicit process, we aim to improve the accessibility of PCP as a full research process and overcome the current limitations posed by utilizing qualitative analytical methods drawn from alternative epistemologies.
{"title":"It’s the Way I Tell Them. A Personal Construct Psychology Method for Analysing Narratives","authors":"Kim Bradley-Cole, P. Denicolo, Maxine Daniels","doi":"10.1080/10720537.2023.2168806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10720537.2023.2168806","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Qualitative research methods aim to produce some form of narrative for analysis and many alternative forms of narrative analysis exist, mostly informed by social constructionist perspectives. This creates a dilemma for personal constructivist researchers, who now have access to a plethora of methods for understanding and intervening in people’s sensemaking processes but are faced with a distinct absence of a uniquely personal constructivist method for analyzing the emerging narratives. This paper aims to outline a Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) (Kelly, 1955) view of the person as an agentic being and provide a contextualized, step by step guide for analyzing personal narratives from a Kellian perspective that encompasses identification and analysis of constructs, metaphors, roles, implicit beliefs and emotions. Kelly advocated working with the ‘whole’ person by credulously exploring their lived reality through the entirety of their emotions, cognitions and behaviors, which goes beyond an extraction of narrative themes or phenomenological interpretations contained in the realm of the person’s known world. In PCP, language is regarded as symbolic, contextual, performative, and incomplete but, unlike social constructionist approaches, the focus favors the identification and explanation of internal identity processes, social cognitions, and personal meanings, rather than how language is utilized externally as a cultural tool. By articulating an explicit process, we aim to improve the accessibility of PCP as a full research process and overcome the current limitations posed by utilizing qualitative analytical methods drawn from alternative epistemologies.","PeriodicalId":46674,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Constructivist Psychology","volume":"36 1","pages":"467 - 482"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48713459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2023.2170502
Elyssa B. Smith, M. Luke
Abstract This paper provides an overview of narrative based inquiry with attention to tensions that arise among the universal and contextual experiences of personal narratives throughout the research endeavor. Drawing from our own research experiences, we describe a range of methodological decisions intending to demonstrate the evolution of reflexivity over time and the re-storying process that shapes our ongoing qualitative researcher identity development. We will conclude with a discussion of how these experiences offer opportunities for enhancing our understanding of constructive meaning-making processes and in turn remind us of the importance of developing skills as reflexive practitioners.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-18DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2023.2168807
Peitao Zhu, Xiang Zhou
Abstract In this article, we focused on the polyphonic view of one’s narrative identity as dialogical, multiple, and decentralized. We first briefly summarized the major tenets of the dialogical self theory (DST) and discussed limited attention to individuals with intersecting marginalized identities within the DST literature. To illustrate the complexity and interwovenness of such individuals, we employed a composite case study of Lee, an East Asian gay sojourner in the U.S. who is negotiating the process of coming out. We dissected three of Lee’s I-positions (i.e., I-as-Queer, I-as-Moral, I-as-Diasporic) across two different time points and discussed the dialogical relationships between each position both spatially and temporally. Lastly, we discuss DST-oriented clinical strategies and potential directions for future research.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-06DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2022.2164532
D. L. McCarty, David D. Christian
Abstract Using narrative inquiry, we explored 10 participants’ tattoo narratives. The purpose of this qualitative study was to see how participants’ tattoo narratives reflect their lifestyle as conceptualized in Adlerian theory. Results indicate that participants used tattoo narratives to reveal information related to the assumed premises of the lifestyle syllogism. Three themes emerged from a thematic narrative analysis of the interviews: (a) view of self, (b) view of others, and (c) view of the world. Key concepts that emerged from a discussion of the themes were (a) communicative power of tattoos and (b) spirituality. Limitations, recommendations for future qualitative and quantitative research, and implications for practice were discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2022.2068707
Carol D Ryff
Beyond the enormous toll in illness and death, the COVID-19 pandemic unleashed multiple additional problems (job loss, evictions, hunger) that are disproportionately borne by those who were already vulnerable. In this essay, I reflect about these intersecting catastrophes, which I see as undermining the capacities of many to live meaningful and fulfilling lives. Symptoms of these problems are growing "deaths of despair" due to suicide, drug and alcohol addictions. Drawing on multidisciplinary science, I suggest that these widespread problems cannot be ministered to by focusing only at the individual level. Structural factors, including unfair distributions of resources and opportunities demand attention as well because they are fueling growing disparities between the privileged and the disadvantaged segments of contemporary societies. I examine what meanings and emotions are relevant responses to these troubled times, giving emphasis to the legitimacy of anger and outrage in the face of suffering and injustice. Further insight is sought in historical accounts of longstanding tensions between self-interest and the social contract. Going forward, I suggest that these turbulent times call for greater engagement with and scientific understanding of the arts and humanities in activating the deepest corners of our humanity. Examples from past and current art dealing with human suffering, inequality, and plagues illustrate their possible role in nurturing human capacities to understand, to care, and to act.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-24DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2022.2148794
Shu-Yi Wang, John D. Dimoff, Lei Wang
{"title":"Beyond Change Talk and Sustain Talk: Identity Construction and Therapeutic Change in Motivational Interviewing","authors":"Shu-Yi Wang, John D. Dimoff, Lei Wang","doi":"10.1080/10720537.2022.2148794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10720537.2022.2148794","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46674,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Constructivist Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47955743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-20DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2022.2134237
J. M. White
{"title":"REVIEW0014Constructing Meaning across Contexts & Generations","authors":"J. M. White","doi":"10.1080/10720537.2022.2134237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10720537.2022.2134237","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46674,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Constructivist Psychology","volume":"36 1","pages":"268 - 271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45238651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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