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Shakerinejad G, zandieh A, sharhani A, Hatamzadeh N, Mazaheri M. Predicting the Determinants of Interpersonal Communication Skills in Healthcare Providers of Ahvaz City: An Application of the Extended Theory of Reasoned Action. TB 2022; 21 (2) :57-72
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The Role of Experience and Function of Redemption Narratives on Psychological Well-Being in Iranian Adults
Ehsan Zargar Kharazi Esfahani (Ph.D.)1, Mohammad Reza Abedi (Ph.D.)2, Fahimeh Namdarpour (Ph.D.)3
1.P.hD. student in Counseling, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Humanities Khomeinishahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khomeinishahr/Isfahan, Iran.
2.Corresponding Author: Professor of Counseling, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran. Email: m.r.abedi@edu.ui.ac.ir Tel:03137935500
3.Assistant Professor of Counseling, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Humanities Khomeinishahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khomeinishahr, Isfahan, Iran.
Abstract
Introduction: The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of redemption narratives on generativity and consequently on psychological well-being in Iranian adults. In addition, the relationship between self-redemption and generativity with psychological well-being was examined separately.
Methods: The study population consisted of all adults aged 22-65 years who had a bachelor's degree or higher and were invited through cyberspace. Sixty six Iranian adults aged 22-65 years were selected by convenience sampling method. The instruments of this study included McAdams’ life story questionnaire, Loyola Generativity Scale, and Ryff psychological well-being scale. The method of analysis was qualitative-quantitative, which qualitative analysis was thematic and quantitative analysis was Pearson correlation.
Results: The results showed that in the Iranian adult population, there was a positive and significant relationship between the scores of self-redemption and generativity, self-redemption and psychological well-being, and generativity and psychological well-being (P <0.01).
Conclusion: Although there is a positive and significant relationship between self-redemption and generativity, self-redemption and psychological well-being, and generativity and psychological well-being, the Iranian adult population often does not tell their stories in the theme of redemption. They also have low score on the generativity and then they also experience low psychological well-being, resulting from cultural and historical origins.
Keywords: Psychological Well-Being, Generativity, Redemption Narratives
References
1-McAdams DP. The redemptive self: Stories Americans live by-revised and expanded edition. Oxford University Press. 2013.
2-Najibzadeh A, Eskandari H. Narrative analysis: New methods in narrative data analysis. Quarterly of Educational Measurement. 2018; 8(30):107-33.
3- McAdams DP. The psychology of life stories. Review of general psychology. 2001; 5(2):100-22.
4-McAdams DP. Exploring psychological themes through life-narrative accounts. Varieties of narrative analysis. 2012:15-32.
5-Conway MA, Pleydell-Pearce CW. The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system. Psychological review. 2000; 107(2):261.
6-Thomsen DK, Berntsen D. The cultural life script and life story chapters contribute to the reminiscence bump. Memory. 2008: 1; 16(4):420-35.
7- Fivush R, Haden CA, editors. Autobiographical memory and the construction of a narrative self: Developmental and cultural perspectives. Psychology Press; 2003.
8-Habermas T, Bluck S. Getting a life: the emergence of the life story in adolescence. Psychological bulletin. 2000; 126(5):748.
9- Bauer JJ, McAdams DP, Sakaeda AR. Interpreting the good life: growth memories in the lives of mature, happy people. Journal of personality and social psychology. 2005; 88(1):203.
10-McAdams DP, Anyidoho NA, Brown C, Huang YT, Kaplan B, Machado MA. Traits and stories: Links between dispositional and narrative features of personality. Journal of personality. 2004; 72(4):761-84.
11-McAdams DP. Personal Narratives and the Life Story. Handbook of Personality: Theory and Research. 2008; 5:242.
12-McAdams DP, Manczak E. Personality and the life story. InAPA handbook of personality and social psychology: Personality processes and individual differences.2015;4:425-46.
13-McLean KC, Pasupathi M, Pals JL. Selves creating stories creating selves: A process model of self-development. Personality and social psychology review. 2007; 11(3):262-78.
14-Hammack PL. Narrative and the cultural psychology of identity. Personality and social psychology review. 2008; 12(3):222-47.
15-Adler JM, Skalina LM, McAdams DP. The narrative reconstruction of psychotherapy and psychological health. Psychotherapy research. 2008; 18(6):719-34.
16- Lieblich AE, McAdams DP, Josselson RE. Healing plots: The narrative basis of psychotherapy. American Psychological Association; 2004.
17-McAdams DP & McLean, K.C. Narrative identity. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 2013:22 (3); 233-8.
18-Syed M. Theoretical and methodological contributions of narrative psychology to ethnic identity research; 2015.
19-Bamberg M. We are young, responsible, and male. Human development.2004;47(6): 331-53.
20-McLean KC, Syed M. Personal, master, and alternative narratives: An integrative framework for understanding identity development in context. Human Development. 2015; 58(6):318-49.
21- McAdams DP. The redemptive self: Generativity and the stories Americans live by. Research in human development. 2006; 3(2-3):81-100.
22-McAdams DP, Bowman PJ. Narrating life’s turning points: Redemption and contamination: Narrative studies of lives in transition. InTurns in the road: Narrative studies of lives in transition 2001. American Psychological Association Press.
23-McAdams DP, Reynolds J, Lewis M, Patten AH, Bowman PJ. When bad things turn good and good things turn bad: Sequences of redemption and contamination in life narrative and their relation to psychosocial adaptation in midlife adults and in students. Personality and social psychology bulletin. 2001; 27(4):474-85.
24-Delavar A. Theoretical and practical foundations of research in humanities and social sciences. Tehran: Roshd Publication. 2015.
25- McAdams DP, de St Aubin ED. A theory of generativity and its assessment through self-report, behavioral acts, and narrative themes in autobiography. Journal of personality and social psychology.1992; 62(6):1003.
26- Ryff CD. Happiness is everything, or is it? Explorations on the meaning of psychological well-being. Journal of personality and social psychology.1989; 57(6):1069.
27- Vosoughi M, Aram H, Salmani G. The Investigation of Structural Obstacles for Emergence and Improving Cultural Development in Iran; Challenges and Strategies. Journal of Iranian Social Development Studies. 2012; 4(3):81-96.
28- Erikson EH. Childhood and society. WW Norton & Company.1993.
Ehsan Zargar Kharazi Esfahani (Ph.D.)1, Mohammad Reza Abedi (Ph.D.)2, Fahimeh Namdarpour (Ph.D.)3
1.P.hD. student in Counseling, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Humanities Khomeinishahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khomeinishahr/Isfahan, Iran.
2.Corresponding Author: Professor of Counseling, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran. Email: m.r.abedi@edu.ui.ac.ir Tel:03137935500
3.Assistant Professor of Counseling, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Humanities Khomeinishahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khomeinishahr, Isfahan, Iran.
Abstract
Introduction: The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of redemption narratives on generativity and consequently on psychological well-being in Iranian adults. In addition, the relationship between self-redemption and generativity with psychological well-being was examined separately.
Methods: The study population consisted of all adults aged 22-65 years who had a bachelor's degree or higher and were invited through cyberspace. Sixty six Iranian adults aged 22-65 years were selected by convenience sampling method. The instruments of this study included McAdams’ life story questionnaire, Loyola Generativity Scale, and Ryff psychological well-being scale. The method of analysis was qualitative-quantitative, which qualitative analysis was thematic and quantitative analysis was Pearson correlation.
Results: The results showed that in the Iranian adult population, there was a positive and significant relationship between the scores of self-redemption and generativity, self-redemption and psychological well-being, and generativity and psychological well-being (P <0.01).
Conclusion: Although there is a positive and significant relationship between self-redemption and generativity, self-redemption and psychological well-being, and generativity and psychological well-being, the Iranian adult population often does not tell their stories in the theme of redemption. They also have low score on the generativity and then they also experience low psychological well-being, resulting from cultural and historical origins.
Keywords: Psychological Well-Being, Generativity, Redemption Narratives
References
1-McAdams DP. The redemptive self: Stories Americans live by-revised and expanded edition. Oxford University Press. 2013.
2-Najibzadeh A, Eskandari H. Narrative analysis: New methods in narrative data analysis. Quarterly of Educational Measurement. 2018; 8(30):107-33.
3- McAdams DP. The psychology of life stories. Review of general psychology. 2001; 5(2):100-22.
4-McAdams DP. Exploring psychological themes through life-narrative accounts. Varieties of narrative analysis. 2012:15-32.
5-Conway MA, Pleydell-Pearce CW. The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system. Psychological review. 2000; 107(2):261.
6-Thomsen DK, Berntsen D. The cultural life script and life story chapters contribute to the reminiscence bump. Memory. 2008: 1; 16(4):420-35.
7- Fivush R, Haden CA, editors. Autobiographical memory and the construction of a narrative self: Developmental and cultural perspectives. Psychology Press; 2003.
8-Habermas T, Bluck S. Getting a life: the emergence of the life story in adolescence. Psychological bulletin. 2000; 126(5):748.
9- Bauer JJ, McAdams DP, Sakaeda AR. Interpreting the good life: growth memories in the lives of mature, happy people. Journal of personality and social psychology. 2005; 88(1):203.
10-McAdams DP, Anyidoho NA, Brown C, Huang YT, Kaplan B, Machado MA. Traits and stories: Links between dispositional and narrative features of personality. Journal of personality. 2004; 72(4):761-84.
11-McAdams DP. Personal Narratives and the Life Story. Handbook of Personality: Theory and Research. 2008; 5:242.
12-McAdams DP, Manczak E. Personality and the life story. InAPA handbook of personality and social psychology: Personality processes and individual differences.2015;4:425-46.
13-McLean KC, Pasupathi M, Pals JL. Selves creating stories creating selves: A process model of self-development. Personality and social psychology review. 2007; 11(3):262-78.
14-Hammack PL. Narrative and the cultural psychology of identity. Personality and social psychology review. 2008; 12(3):222-47.
15-Adler JM, Skalina LM, McAdams DP. The narrative reconstruction of psychotherapy and psychological health. Psychotherapy research. 2008; 18(6):719-34.
16- Lieblich AE, McAdams DP, Josselson RE. Healing plots: The narrative basis of psychotherapy. American Psychological Association; 2004.
17-McAdams DP & McLean, K.C. Narrative identity. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 2013:22 (3); 233-8.
18-Syed M. Theoretical and methodological contributions of narrative psychology to ethnic identity research; 2015.
19-Bamberg M. We are young, responsible, and male. Human development.2004;47(6): 331-53.
20-McLean KC, Syed M. Personal, master, and alternative narratives: An integrative framework for understanding identity development in context. Human Development. 2015; 58(6):318-49.
21- McAdams DP. The redemptive self: Generativity and the stories Americans live by. Research in human development. 2006; 3(2-3):81-100.
22-McAdams DP, Bowman PJ. Narrating life’s turning points: Redemption and contamination: Narrative studies of lives in transition. InTurns in the road: Narrative studies of lives in transition 2001. American Psychological Association Press.
23-McAdams DP, Reynolds J, Lewis M, Patten AH, Bowman PJ. When bad things turn good and good things turn bad: Sequences of redemption and contamination in life narrative and their relation to psychosocial adaptation in midlife adults and in students. Personality and social psychology bulletin. 2001; 27(4):474-85.
24-Delavar A. Theoretical and practical foundations of research in humanities and social sciences. Tehran: Roshd Publication. 2015.
25- McAdams DP, de St Aubin ED. A theory of generativity and its assessment through self-report, behavioral acts, and narrative themes in autobiography. Journal of personality and social psychology.1992; 62(6):1003.
26- Ryff CD. Happiness is everything, or is it? Explorations on the meaning of psychological well-being. Journal of personality and social psychology.1989; 57(6):1069.
27- Vosoughi M, Aram H, Salmani G. The Investigation of Structural Obstacles for Emergence and Improving Cultural Development in Iran; Challenges and Strategies. Journal of Iranian Social Development Studies. 2012; 4(3):81-96.
28- Erikson EH. Childhood and society. WW Norton & Company.1993.
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