How three generations narrate their vicarious family stories: intrafamilial similarities, gender and cross-generational differences

Bakir-Demir, Tugce; Reese, Elaine; Şahin-Acar, Başak

doi:10.1080/09658211.2020.1749282

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“…Results also revealed that participants who rated their family stories as more emotionally positive reported higher levels of well-being (see Figure 2). As already reported in Bakir-Demir et al (2020), thematic coherence of the stories was also linked to the age of the narrator. Older adults' stories were less coherent than the younger ones.…”

Section: Sample 1: Written Narrativessupporting

confidence: 55%

“…There were 210 participants from 70 families in Sample 1. All these participants were also included in the descriptive analyses of our previous research (Bakir-Demir et al, 2020). Family members were generations of men including male college students and their fathers and grandfathers and generations of women including female college students and their mothers and grandmothers.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Given the theoretical framework of family narratives (Fivush & Merrill, 2016), one might also expect that socio-cultural transformation will have an impact on vicarious memories as well as autobiographical memories. A recent study allows us to take a closer look at the narrative characteristics of vicarious family stories across three generations of women and men in the Turkish cultural context (Bakir-Demir, Reese, & Sahin-Acar, 2020). They found that the reasons for telling family stories were different across generations.…”

Section: Vicarious Family Stories and Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The data reported here are part of a larger study exploring vicarious family stories. Only the participants and their family stories discussed below are the same as we reported in our previous study examining the intrafamilial similarities, gender and cross-generational differences in vicarious family stories (Bakir-Demir et al, 2020). Within the scope of the current study, we additionally explored these stories in relation to family climate and well-being.…”

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“…Given the effects of socio-cultural transformations over generations in Turkey on vicarious family stories (Bakir-Demir et al, 2020), we expected lower levels of thematic coherence among older adults compared to younger adults. We also expected to see differences in vicarious family stories between men and women, based on the findings of previous studies showing that women were higher in subjective perspective terms in their mother narratives (Bakir-Demir et al, 2020) and mother narratives were richer in evaluations compared to father narratives (Merrill et al, 2017). Therefore, when investigating the relationships among family climate, vicarious family stories, and well-being, we planned to partial out the impacts of aging and gender.…”

Section: Family Relationships and Family Storiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Vicarious family stories of Turkish young, middle-aged, and older adults: Are family stories related to well-being?

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Şahin-Acar

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In the current study, we examined whether vicarious family stories are linked to family climate and well-being among young, middle-aged, and older adults across two different samples. In total, there were 168 triads of Turkish families (N = 504). Across Sample 1 (written narratives) and Sample 2 (spoken narratives), we found a significant link between family climate and well-being. In addition, participants from Sample 2 who experienced better family climate narrated more coherent family stories. The results also revealed that participants from Sample 1 who rated their stories as more emotionally positive and participants from Sample 2 who included more identity connections in their stories reported higher levels of well-being. Overall, our findings emphasise the links to well-being for family climate and family stories, and highlight the importance of capturing different characteristics of vicarious stories (elicited via different methods) across generations.

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It takes two: A dyadic approach to the content and functions of vicarious memories.

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Van Bergen

2024

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

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In this commentary, we suggest that vicarious memories arise from complex and dynamic memory sharing processes. We extend Pillemer et al.'s (2024) case regarding the importance of vicarious memory for self and well-being by considering how characteristics of the teller and features of the context might interact with those of the receiver to shape the presence and functions of the vicarious memory being chosen and shared. We further propose that Pillemer et al.'s (2024) conceptualization of vicarious memories as part of autobiography links vicarious memory to a range of existing literatures from individual memory, social memory, and collective memory, and we consider how similarities and differences in the conversational remembering of jointly experienced events and vicarious events may provide fruitful avenues for further research. We argue for important applications of vicarious memory in real-world settings, with particular implications for supporting memory and identity in aged care and dementia care.

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How I Remember My Mother’s Story: A Cross-National Investigation of Vicarious Family Stories in Turkey and New Zealand

Bakir-Demir

Reese

Şahin-Acar

et al. 2022

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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Stories that have not been personally experienced by children and are only told by their parents are called vicarious family stories. An emerging body of literature has shown that vicarious family stories are an important part of children’s narrative ecology. However, to date, only two studies from the same cross-cultural project have examined the role of culture in vicarious family stories. The aims of this study were to examine vicarious mother stories in Turkey and New Zealand (NZ) and to investigate individual variations in national groups with regard to the internalization of cultural orientations (i.e., self-construals). There were 108 Turkish and 79 NZ women in this study. We found that Turkish women’s stories were more thematically coherent and included more social interactions and other-related words than NZ women’s. When reporting reasons for why they thought family members told stories, didactic purposes and expressing emotions were more common reasons for Turkish women, whereas sharing family history and entertainment were more common reasons for NZ women. However, Turkish and NZ women’s vicarious stories were similar in terms of identity connections and affective tone. Unexpectedly, we did not find a significant role of individuals’ self-construals in the link between national groups and vicarious stories. This study contributes to the growing area of research on family narratives by showing the commonalities and differences in the construction of vicarious stories across national groups.

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How three generations narrate their vicarious family stories: intrafamilial similarities, gender and cross-generational differences

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Vicarious family stories of Turkish young, middle-aged, and older adults: Are family stories related to well-being?

Vicarious family stories of Turkish young, middle-aged, and older adults: Are family stories related to well-being?

It takes two: A dyadic approach to the content and functions of vicarious memories.

How I Remember My Mother’s Story: A Cross-National Investigation of Vicarious Family Stories in Turkey and New Zealand

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