Thematic analysis of life story episodes across four countries

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Thematic analysis of life story episodes across four countries
Original language description
Telling stories is so natural for all human beings that we can think about universality of narrative experience across cultures. A life story is an individual?s narrative perspective of his or her life, or what he or she thinks is significant part of that life. In our study we have compared the life story data of participants aged 60 and above from Europe (the Czech Republic and Germany), Asia (Hong Kong), and Sub-Saharan Africa (Cameroon). We utilised the McAdams Life story interview in order to elicitautobiographical memories. Data was then analysed thematically (inductive approach) in order to identify and report patterns (themes) within the episodes (peak experience, nadir experience, turning point, early memories, cultural expectation etc.) horizontally (across cultures) and vertically (within each culture). The patterned response for each culture follows on from our preliminary analysis. In each episode, our participants differ in certain themes; however our thematic analysis ca
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GP14-02889P" target="_blank" >GP14-02889P: Sex differences in emotional habituation</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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