The participants indicated that both patients and staff play important parts in causing and in intervening to prevent violence. This information can be used to help plan programs to prevent and intervene in aggressive behavior.
who completed the self-event connection coding. We would also thank Nick Jones for his logistical and administrative support of the Identity Pathways Project (IPP), Benjamin Le, project co-PI, for ongoing methodological and conceptual input on the project, and the support of our respective institutions -Haverford College and Western Washington University -where IPP was conducted. We also thank Annie Fast, Antonya Gonzalez, and Annie Riggs for comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript.
Objective. Research on personality development has traditionally focused on rank-order stability and mean-level change in the context of personality traits. The present study expands this approach to the examination of change and stability at another level of personality – narrative identity – by focusing on autobiographical reasoning. Drawing from theory in personality and developmental science, we examine stability and change in exploratory processing and positive and negative self-event connections. Method. We take advantage of a longitudinal study of emerging adult personality and identity development, which includes four waves of data across four years, examining reasoning in two domains of identity, academics and romance (n = 1520 narratives; n = 176 – 638 participants, depending on the analysis). Results. We found moderate rank-order stability in autobiographical reasoning, but more so for exploratory processing than self-event connections. We found mean-level increases for exploratory processing in the context of romance, and stability in the context of academics. For self-event connections, we saw a decrease for positive connections, and for negative connections about romance, with stability for negative connections about academics. Conclusions. Implications include developmental differences in types of reasoning, as well as the sensitivity of narrative identity to revealing the contextual nature of personality development.
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