The Benefits and Risks of Telling and Listening to Stories of Difficulty Over Time: Experimentally Testing the Expressive Writing Paradigm in the Context of Interpersonal Communication Between Friends

Kellas, Jody Koenig; Horstman, Haley Kranstuber; Willer, Erin K.; Carr, Kristen

doi:10.1080/10410236.2013.850017

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“…The quasi-experimental portion of the study took place over five days and was modeled after procedures of the expressive writing paradigm (Frattaroli, 2006; Koenig Kellas et al, 2015). At Time 1 (T1), the daughters were e-mailed a survey with the story-writing prompt, which asked participants to write out the story of their difficult experience selected during the pre-interaction survey.…”

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“…In other words, those mothers who demonstrated effective CNSM skills helped their daughters more positively and productively make sense of their difficult experience. In sum, although CNSM may provide opportunity for face threats, emotional burnout, and negative emotional contagion (Koenig Kellas, Kranstuber Horstman, Willer, & Carr, 2015), a growing body of research supports its ability to solidify sense-making and improve well-being.…”

Section: Resilience Through Communicated Narrative Sense-makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Young adult women’s narrative resilience in relation to mother-daughter communicated narrative sense-making and well-being

Horstman

2018

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Grounded in communicated narrative sense-making (CNSM) and resilience theorizing, the current study investigated the effects of mother-daughter communication on young adult women’s ( n = 60) narrative construction of resilience over time. Participants wrote stories of difficult experiences at Time 1, discussed the story with their mother in a research lab two days later, and wrote the story again at Time 2. Inductive analyses of daughters’ stories revealed four themes of resilience: acknowledging the struggle, taking action, seeking silver lining, and finding strength in others. Mother-daughter interactions were analyzed for CNSM behaviors—engagement, turn-taking, perspective-taking, and coherence. Mother-daughter coherence and engagement illuminated differences in daughters’ themes of resilience, and all CNSM behaviors positively related to daughters’ increased narrative resilience over time. Findings demonstrated the effect of mother-daughter interaction on young adult women’s resilience, suggesting that CNSM contributes to the meaning-making component of resilience. Implications for advancing CNSM and resilience theorizing are explored.

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Young adult women’s narrative resilience in relation to mother-daughter communicated narrative sense-making and well-being

Horstman

2018

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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“…This finding encourages us to stress the social support provision of family kinkeepers. Social support occurs in everyday interactions in personal relationships, not just during times of crisis (e.g., Koenig Kellas, Kranstuber Horstman, Willer, & Carr, 2015), and is a key to the quality of human life and family unity (Goldsmith, 2004). Scholars have noted that the substantial time and energy expended in maintaining relationships among extended family are often not shared equally among family members.…”

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“Love Needs to Be Exchanged”: A Diary Study of Interaction and Enactment of the Family Kinkeeper Role

Braithwaite

Marsh

Tschampl-Diesing

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Western Journal of Communication

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“…Thus, people may avoid vulnerable communicative interactions. A second challenge is that telling our stories can be face-threatening (Koenig Kellas, Kranstuber, Willer, & Carr, 2015), undermining our sense of competence or belonging. Finally, listeners often struggle with what to say when someone shares a painful or difficult story (Lehman, Ellard, & Wortman, 1986).…”

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Narrative Connection: Applying CNSM Theory’s Translational Storytelling Heuristic

Kellas

Morgan

Taladay

et al. 2020

Journal of Family Communication

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Storytelling functions as a means for making sense of and reframing difficulty. The translational storytelling heuristic of communicated narrative sense-making theory proposes that storytelling interventions which facilitate narrative reflection, positive re-framing, and interactional sense-making will positively benefit individuals and families. In this article we describe the process of synthesizing CNSM theory with narrative medicine, narrative theory of identity, and narrative therapy to create a translational storytelling intervention called narrative connection. We then offer a case study using an adaptation of this intervention in the context of parenting. Nine parents in two groups completed the three-week narrative parenting intervention. Preliminary results of the case study suggest that the intervention resulted in an overarching sense of solidarity among parents, facilitates feeling understood, contributes to deeper (self) awareness, and facilitates reassurance, reframing, curiosity, and validation. Overarching benefits included feeling not alone and future plans to be more vulnerable with other parents.

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The Benefits and Risks of Telling and Listening to Stories of Difficulty Over Time: Experimentally Testing the Expressive Writing Paradigm in the Context of Interpersonal Communication Between Friends

Cited by 28 publications

References 65 publications

Young adult women’s narrative resilience in relation to mother-daughter communicated narrative sense-making and well-being

Young adult women’s narrative resilience in relation to mother-daughter communicated narrative sense-making and well-being

“Love Needs to Be Exchanged”: A Diary Study of Interaction and Enactment of the Family Kinkeeper Role

Narrative Connection: Applying CNSM Theory’s Translational Storytelling Heuristic

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