The Development of the Temporal Macrostructure of Life Narratives Across Adolescence: Beginnings, Linear Narrative Form, and Endings

摘要: The ontogeny of the ability to describe people culminates in adolescence development life story. An overarching temporal macrostructure and framing by a prehistory future-oriented global evaluation helps integrate disparate autobiographical memories into coherent Two narratives each 8-, 12-, 16-, 20-year-olds (N=102) were analyzed terms how well-formed their beginnings endings are much they follow linear order. By age 12, majority began with birth, ended present, followed chronological In late early adulthood, more elaborate birth retrospective evaluations outlooks future added. These formal characteristics related biographical practices, knowledge, fluid intelligence. Text-analytical methods proposed as method for analysis reasoning understanding.