Totalitarian regime in life stories of Czech adults
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Totalitarian regime in life stories of Czech adults
Original language description
The objective of this study is to describe the imprint of spending substantial part of one´s life in totalitarian regime in former communist Czechoslovakia on today´s narrative identity, or life-story. The present study was a part of a large cross-cultural study where tests of some psychometric measures, such as wellbeing, satisfaction, ego integrity, and generativity, were administered together with the Life Story Interview (LSI). In the present study, we used the data of all 166 Czech participants and from these, we selected a subsample of 88 participants, who in their life story mentioned the totalitarian regime in some way. The analysis was grounded in the narrative approach, where aging is perceived as autobiographic work, and the nature of narrativity is viewed as an enactment of constitutive trouble. A categorical narrative analysis was applied, using narrative categories: thematic lines, agency, positioning and moral identity statements. Most frequent themes were: 1. ordinary life: employment, education, daily living, travel, 2. emotions: fear, grievance, and feelings of injustice, 3. moral deterioratio, 4. persecutions, immigration, 5. advantages of being a member of Communist Party, 6. significant historical events: occupation in 1968, period of normalisation. Narrative categories agency and moral identity seem to be substantial for the narrative integration of the experience of the totalitarian regime into one´s life story.n
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Classification
Type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-08583S" target="_blank" >GA20-08583S: Midlife experience: transitions, crises, and growth</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů