Narrative Identity

Narrative Identity is a psychological construct of identity that consists in an internalized and continually revised life story through which an individual organizes and interprets autobiographical experiences across past, present, and anticipated future, thereby establishing a coherent and meaningful sense of self over time and in social context.

7.8K

Publications

523.1K

Citations

11K

Authors

2.3K

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Publications per year

2017–2026

1.4K

Parents

Identity DevelopmentNarrative StudiesPersonality PsychologySelf

Children

Narrative CommunionNarrative EmotionNarrative Identity ChangeNarrative Self-constructionRedemptive NarrativeSelf-defining EventsSelf-defining MemoriesSense Of Self

Publications

7.8K

A Social Psychologist Discovers Chicago Sociology

Edgar H. Schein, Everett C. Hughes, Melville Dalton et al. · Academy of Management Review · 1989 · 7.2K citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +12

Sources of the self: the making of the modern identity

Choice Reviews Online · 1990 · 7.2K citations

Social Sciences, History, Sociology +12

The Narrative Construction of Reality

Jerome S. Bruner · Critical Inquiry · 1991 · 5.5K citations

Humanities, History, Narrative Studies +11

Positioning: The Discursive Production of Selves

Bronwyn Davies, Rom Harré · Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour · 1990 · 5.3K citations

Social Sciences, Sociology, Self +10

Identity and agency in cultural worlds

Choice Reviews Online · 1999 · 4.1K citations

Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Social Psychology +17

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Authors

11K

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Dan P. McAdams
Northwestern University, United States
52 publications · 6.6K citations
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Kate C. McLean
Western Washington University, United States
48 publications · 5.7K citations
30
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Robyn Fıvush
Emory University, United States
29 publications · 3.7K citations
26
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Andrew C. Sparkes
University of Exeter, United Kingdom
23 publications · 3.1K citations
20
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Brett Smith
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
20 publications · 2.6K citations
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Institutions

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Venues

Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 316 publications · 52.1K citations
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Narrative Inquiry
NI · 87 publications · 5.1K citations
37
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Qualitative Health Research
QHR · 68 publications · 4.9K citations
35
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Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
44 publications · 9.3K citations
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Qualitative Inquiry
QI · 69 publications · 3.7K citations
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