Getting a life: the emergence of the life story in adolescence.
- T. Habermas, S. Bluck
- PsychologyPsychological bulletin
- 1 September 2000
The authors delineate the implications of the life story framework for other research areas such as coping, attachment, psychotherapeutic process, and the organization of autobiographical memory.
A Tale of Three Functions: The Self-Reported Uses of Autobiographical Memory.
- S. Bluck, N. Alea, T. Habermas, D. Rubin
- Psychology
- 2 June 2005
Abstract Theories hold that autobiographical memory serves several broad functions (directive, self, and social). In the current study, items were derived from the theoretical literature to create…
Autobiographical memory: Exploring its functions in everyday life
- S. Bluck
- PsychologyMemory
- 1 January 2003
This special issue of Memory spotlights research that uses a functional approach to investigate autobiographical memory (AM) in everyday life, taking into account the psychological, social, or cultural-historic context in which it occurs.
Why are you telling me that? A conceptual model of the social function of autobiographical memory
A conceptual model of the social functions of autobiographical memory across the lifespan is provided and components of the model are shown to influence the type of social function served and/or, the extent to which social functions are served.
Making things better and learning a lesson: experiencing wisdom across the lifespan.
Unlike adolescents, older and, especially, young adults report having learned lessons about themselves or having gained a life philosophy from the wisdom-related event, which highlights both similarities and differences in the life span manifestation of experienced wisdom.
Crafting the TALE: Construction of a measure to assess the functions of autobiographical remembering
The newly developed Thinking about Life Experiences scale (TALE) shows good internal consistency as well as convergent validity for three subscales: Self-Continuity, Social-Bonding, and Directing-Behaviour.
The Life Story Schema
- S. Bluck, T. Habermas
- Psychology
- 1 June 2000
Current work on autobiographical memory does not take the term autobiographical seriously enough. Doing so requires taking not just single events, but the whole life and its coherence, into account:…
Motivation and personality: The conceptual/integrative complexity scoring manual
- G. Baker-Brown, E. Ballard, S. Bluck, B. Vries, P. Suedfeld, P. Tetlock
- Psychology
- 1992
Looking back across the life span: A life story account of the reminiscence bump
This work extends the life script account by taking a theory-based, life span developmental approach, and predicts that events in the reminiscence bump are characterized not only by positive valence, but also by high perceived control and high perceived influence on later development.
Positive and Negative Life Changes Following Bereavement and their Relations to Adjustment
- D. R. Lehman, C. G. Davis, J. Ellard
- Psychology
- 1 March 1993
We examined positive and negative life changes reported by bereaved spouses and parents 4-7 years after the sudden loss of a family member (N = 94). Although the bereaved described significantly more…
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