Family stories and the life course : across time and generations / / edited by Michael W. Pratt, Barbara H. Fiese

• Pubblicazione: Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (451 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.85
• Soggetto topico: Families - Psychological aspects; Developmental psychology; Intergenerational relations
• Altri autori: PrattMichael W FieseBarbara H
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Families, Stories, and the Life Course: An Ecological Context; Part I: Child Narratives:; 2 Echoing Our Parents: Parental Influences on Children's Narration; 3 Family Narratives and the Development of Children's Emotional Well-Being; 4 Coherence and Representations in Preschoolers' Narratives: Associations With Attachment in Infancy; 5 Children's Empathic Representations in Relation to Early Caregiving Patterns Among Low-Income African American Mothers; Part II: Adolescent Narratives: ; 6 Adoption Narratives: The Construction of Adoptive Identity During Adolescence7 Adolescents' Representations of Parents' Voices in Family Stories: Value Lessons, Personal Adjustment, and Identity Development; 8 When Parents' Stories Go to Pot: Telling Personal Transgressions to Teenage Kids; Part III: Young Adulthood; 9 Marital Attachment and Family Functioning: Use of Narrative Methodology; Part IV: Midlife; 10 Generativity and the Narrative Ecology of Family Life ; 11 Pin-Curling Grandpa's Hair in the Comfy Chair: Parents' Stories of Growing Up and Potential Links to Socialization in the Preschool Years12 The Cultural Context of Parent-Child Reminiscing: A Functional Analysis; 13 Listening Is Active: Lessons From the Narrative Practices of Taiwanese Families; Part V: Aging and Grandparenthood in Narrative; 14 Telling Stories and Getting Acquainted: How Age Matters; 15 "As Long as They Go Back Down the Driveway at the End of the Day": Stories of the Satisfactions and Challenges of Grandparenthood ; 16 Writing a Connection: Intergenerational Communication Through StoriesPart VI: Conclusions and Future Directions; 17 Metaphors and Meanings of Family Stories: Integrating Life Course and Systems Perspectives on Narrative; Author Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This edited book draws from work that focuses on the act of telling family stories, as well as their content and structure. The process of telling family stories is linked to central aspects of development, including language acquisition, affect regulation, and family interaction patterns. This book extends across traditional developmental psychology, personality theory, and family studies. Drawing broadly on the epigenetic framework for individual development articulated by Erik Erikson, as well as on conceptions of the family life cycle, the editors bring together contemporary exampl
• Titolo autorizzato: Family stories and the life course
• ISBN: 1-135-63246-4; 1-283-24128-5; 1-135-63247-2; 9786613241283; 1-4106-1030-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809703103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II