Family Stories and the Life Course: Across Time and Generations

Anderson, Trudy B.

doi:10.1177/009430610503400414

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“…The potential for storytelling to meet LGBTQ+ people's psychosocial needs is supported by research on families McLean, 2016;Pratt & Fiese, 2004). McLean (2016) described the narrative ecology of development, outlining a model in which family stories are taken up, internalized, and reconstructed in the self-making process.…”

Section: Intergenerational Storytelling As a Developmental Resourcementioning

confidence: 99%

Intergenerational Storytelling as a Developmental Resource in LGBTQ+ Communities

Weststrate¹,

Turner

McLean

2023

Journal of Homosexuality

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LGBTQ+ people continue to be threatened by systemic censorship and erasure in public spaces and discourses, making community-based resources for positive development crucial. In this study, we examined one such developmental resource-LGBTQ+ intergenerational storytelling about cultural-historical events. LGBTQ+ adults (N = 495) ranging in age from 17 to 80 years (M = 39.22, SD = 19.89) responded to an online survey about LGBTQ+ intergenerational storytelling and relationships. Results showed that although LGBTQ+ intergenerational storytelling was reported to occur infrequently, sharing stories across generations was considered important, and LGBTQ+ people desired even greater intergenerational connection. The narratives reported were primarily about cultural-historical events involving adversity and oppression (e.g., AIDS crisis), policy and legislation (e.g., marriage equality), and protest, resistance, and activism (e.g., Stonewall uprising). Stories were mostly told by older friends in private or social settings for the purpose of passing on LGBTQ+ history. Lessons learned through storytelling were diverse but tended to focus on appreciation and affirmation. Valuing intergenerational storytelling was associated with positive psychosocial identity. This study suggests that intergenerational storytelling may be an important developmental resource forLGBTQ+ people and other marginalized communities.

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Section: Intergenerational Storytelling As a Developmental Resourcementioning

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Intergenerational Storytelling as a Developmental Resource in LGBTQ+ Communities

Weststrate¹,

Turner

McLean

2023

Journal of Homosexuality

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“…These shared narratives serve as the lens through which we interpret our lives and identities. Our memories are constructed by the narratives we narrate ( Pratt and Fiese, 2004).…”

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Rewriting The Construction of Blackness in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Selected Works

2023

IJSSES

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This study investigates selected literary works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from a new historicist point of view. It examines the concept of history as being treated and narrated in a subjectiveas opposed to objectivemanner by the white historians. The study correspondingly aims at investigating Adichie's selected works that depict the pathway of return to history. In the light of these notional views, it provides a critical analysis to revisit, reshape and rewrite the pre-presumptive stands of racialized ideologies and cultures. Furthermore, it questions the position of postmodern blackness, especially of black women. To do so, the study examines literary depictions of the characters in Adichie's works through historical roles and features given to them in the texts, discussing the ways in which the selected novels reflect a variety of experiences that the literary narrators wish to convey to the reader.

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“…The current study is informed by a life course perspective, which emphasizes time, culture, and context as core influences that structure the course of individual's lives (Elder, 1994;Pratt & Fiese, 2004;Settersten, 2017). Family members represent a unique contextual influence, as they endure through time in a way that more transient ecological influences, such as friendships or relations with coworkers, may not (Pratt & Fiese, 2004). Central to the present study is the notion of linked lives, which is the understanding that family lives are interdependent (Elder et al, 2003;Macmillan & Copher, 2005), and that changes in one family member have the potential to alter relations between family members in the broader family system.…”

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Support exchanges between adult children and their parents across life transitions

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Johnson

Anderson

et al. 2021

J of Marriage and Family

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Objective This study examined whether adult children's transitions to marriage, parenthood, and divorce were related to intergenerational support exchanges. Background Intergenerational support fluctuates over the life span, often in response to major transitions, but surprisingly little research has examined longitudinally how life transitions shape the bidirectional flow of intergenerational support. Method Using data from adult children who participated in Waves 2, 4, 6, and 8 of the German Family Panel (pairfam) study, we estimated fixed effect models to explore how marital and parenthood transitions of adult children predict support exchanges between adult children and their parents (n = 5245 adult children's report of support exchanges with their mother and n = 4604 with their father; total 14,359 and 12,147 observations). Results Getting married was associated with adult children receiving less emotional support from mothers, while providing less instrumental support to their parents. Becoming a mother was associated with receiving more instrumental support from parents and receiving less material/financial support among adult children closer to their parents. When adult children became a parent, emotional and instrumental provision to mothers decreased. Getting divorced was associated with adult children receiving more emotional and material support from parents, but findings varied based on child gender and closeness with parents. Conclusion Adult children's life transitions influence patterns of support exchanged with their parents differentially based on parent–child gender composition and intergenerational closeness.

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Family Stories and the Life Course: Across Time and Generations

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Intergenerational Storytelling as a Developmental Resource in LGBTQ+ Communities

Intergenerational Storytelling as a Developmental Resource in LGBTQ+ Communities

Rewriting The Construction of Blackness in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Selected Works

Support exchanges between adult children and their parents across life transitions

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