Nadir experiences and ego-integrity: types of narrative enactment
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081740%3A_____%2F21%3A00525123" target="_blank" >RIV/68081740:_____/21:00525123 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ageing-and-society/article/nadir-experiences-and-egointegrity-types-of-narrative-enactment/FDD237CF70CFDEBAD35ABAC6AD77EDF7" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ageing-and-society/article/nadir-experiences-and-egointegrity-types-of-narrative-enactment/FDD237CF70CFDEBAD35ABAC6AD77EDF7</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X20000197" target="_blank" >10.1017/S0144686X20000197</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Nadir experiences and ego-integrity: types of narrative enactment
Original language description
Coming to terms with negative life experiences is a way of reaching ego-integrity in mature age, a development task belonging to the last phase of Erikson’s theory of psycho-social development. This study explores fundamental tensions between negative life experiences and ego-integrity through the lens of narrative enactment, i.e. by looking at how nadir experiences are constructed in the narratives of study participants. From 166 potential participants, we selected life-story narratives of 42 highly ego-integrated older adults based on a self-rated ego-integrity scale. Data were analysed using the narrative approach, where ageing is perceived as autobiographical work and narrativity is viewed as enactment of the constitutive event of ‘trouble’. Our results suggest a subtle classification of five distinct types of narrative enactment: ‘it turned out well’, ‘I managed to cope with it’, ‘validation with respect to future development’, ‘acquisition of a new attitude’ and, finally, ‘justification of a hard decision’. Each of these enactment types is defined by a particular configuration of narrative categories: agency in a negative event, agency in a positive resolution, reflexivity and construction of moral identity. Our results highlight the meaning of processing and reconstruction of negative life experiences and the various narrative pathways this process can follow in highly ego-integrated older adults.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-02634S" target="_blank" >GA17-02634S: The styles of ego integrity in the life stories of older adults: a narrative approach</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ageing and Society
ISSN
0144-686X
e-ISSN
1469-1779
Volume of the periodical
41
Issue of the periodical within the volume
9
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
2006-2025
UT code for WoS article
000681728700006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85082102501