Abstract
Narrative identity is likely to be important in the development of personality disorder (PD) in adolescence. Adolescents’ life narratives provide rich material that is near to their lived experiences and reveal individual differences in self and relatedness and in ways of constructing meaning. Narrative identity is linked with well-being and psychopathology and shapes coping with adversity. Preliminary research suggests that adolescents and adults with PD narrate their lives in ways that are more negative and express lower agency; narratives may also contain content reflecting PD symptoms. Youth's narrative identities may express personality disturbances in self and relationship processes and may affect the consolidation of or recovery from emerging PD in the transition to adulthood — all possibilities worthy of future investigation.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 49-53 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Current Opinion in Psychology |
| Volume | 37 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Funding: This work was supported by a Vidi grant of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (grant number 452?14-013) awarded to Theo A. Klimstra.
Funding Information:
Funding: This work was supported by a Vidi grant of the N etherlands Organization for Scientific Research (grant number 452–14-013) awarded to Theo A. Klimstra.
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Funding
Funding: This work was supported by a Vidi grant of the N etherlands Organization for Scientific Research (grant number 452–14-013) awarded to Theo A. Klimstra.