A narrative analysis of behaviourally troubled adolescents' life stories

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Sanderson ◽  
Anne McKeough
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Behavioural Difficulties ◽  
Street Youths ◽  
Violent Acts ◽  
Gender Groups ◽  
Emotional And Behavioural Difficulties

The purpose of this study was to explore street youths' life histories to assess how early negative experiences (e.g., maltreatment) contributed to alternative developmental paths marked by emotional and behavioural difficulties. Ten male and female participants responded to an attachment questionnaire and told their life stories. The data were analyzed using qualitative and quantitative techniques. The results showed that both groups experienced difficulties in attaining educational, employment and relational successes. However, differences were found between gender groups in views of self, with females often describing themselves as victims whereas males' views were often characterized by self-efficacy stemming from successful completion of criminal or violent acts – in other words, as victimizers. Finally, it was found that males were more able to apply developmental advanced interpretations to their life experiences.

scholarly journals OLDER MEN’S BIOGRAPHICAL LEARNING AND MASCULINITY

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Malec-Rawiński
Keyword(s):  
Life Histories ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Older Men ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews

The general aim of this paper is to present insights from a Polish case study on the learning experiences of Polish older men. The research data was collected by means of ‘guided’, semi-structured interviews. This paper presents two well-educated older men’s life stories from two different local communities in Poland and the analyses of their life experiences in the context of masculinities and ageing using a biographical learning approach. The analyses of the two biographical narratives have shown the diversity in the life histories of older men, but also similar struggles and challenges. They have illustrated how older men cannot simply be reduced to their experience of ageing, but that they also carry some continuously (re)negotiated struggles with masculinity, weaving new and rich threads for learning that is lifelong and life-wide.

scholarly journals Caring for Dying Parents in the Shadow of Childhood Maltreatment: Gendered Agency, Constraint, and Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 511-512
Author(s):  
Robin Tarter ◽  
Dena Hassouneh ◽  
Susan Rosenkranz
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Childhood Maltreatment ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Relational Agency ◽  
Unpaid Care ◽  
Feminist Poststructuralist ◽  
Growing Population

Abstract Adult daughters represent the largest and fastest growing population of providers of unpaid care labor (UCL) to older adults with life limiting illness. Providing UCL to parents at the end of life is associated with significant and lasting risks of morbidity and mortality, especially for women with negative relationships with care recipients, and those who provide UCL based on constraining gendered expectations rather than agentic choice. While nearly one quarter of US women experience some form of maltreatment from parents during childhood, few studies have examined, or even acknowledged, the effect of trauma on the experience and health impact of family UCL. We used feminist poststructuralist informed dialogic narrative analysis to explore discursive constructions of agency and constraint in co-constructed life histories from 21 women who provided end of life UCL to older adult parents who maltreated them in childhood. For these women, parental childhood maltreatment influenced identity construction, social position, intersubjectivity, and vulnerability to victimization. For some, providing end-of-life UCL to the parents who maltreated them facilitated the mobilization of relational agency and identity validation. For others, providing UCL potentiated lifelong constraint, reinforcing their positions as non-agents and leading to significant psychical and emotional harm. End of life UCL for older adult parents represents a crucible out of which either healing or re-traumatization can arise. Our findings will be leveraged to inform clinical practice and policy to support the growing population women trauma survivors providing UCL to older adult parents, reducing negative outcomes for those at the greatest risk.

Prospective cohort analysis of cellphone use and emotional and behavioural difficulties in children

2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (12) ◽  
pp. 1207-1213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhuri Sudan ◽  
Jorn Olsen ◽  
Oyebuchi A Arah ◽  
Carsten Obel ◽  
Leeka Kheifets
Keyword(s):  
Prospective Cohort ◽  
Cohort Analysis ◽  
Behavioural Difficulties ◽  
Emotional And Behavioural Difficulties

scholarly journals The (mis)uses of life histories. The linguistic turn, life histories and (women’s) life stories

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 133-151
Author(s):  
Claudia de Lima Costa
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Cultural Scripts ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Women's Lives

This paper retraces the debates on life-histories before and after the linguistic turn in the social sciences, and, more specifically, in the anthropological tradition. It stresses how poststructuralist feminist methodological, theoretical, and political appropriations of personal narratives represent a significant textual intervention in the gendered social-cultural scripts of women’s lives.

Capturing life histories about movements into and out of poverty: A road with pits and bumps

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tineke Schiettecat ◽  
Griet Roets ◽  
Michel Vandenbroeck
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Social Work Interventions ◽  
A Current

In order to take into account the power imbalances typically implicated in knowledge production about the complex social problem of poverty, social work researchers have increasingly acknowledged the importance of grasping the viewpoints and perspectives of people in poverty situations. In this contribution, we accordingly reflect on a current life history research project that retrospectively explores the life stories of parents with young children with regard to their mobility into and out of poverty that is examined in dynamic interaction with social work interventions. In this article, we discuss methodological and ethical challenges and complexities that we unexpectedly encountered in our research venture, as illustrated by three exemplary vignettes. These examples demonstrate issues of power between the researcher and the research participants that are not only inevitable, but also generate dilemmas, struggles and ambiguities that often remain underexposed in the ways scientific insights are reported. Rather than disguising these pits and bumps, we argue for a reflexive research stance which makes these issues of power in knowledge production susceptible to contemplation and scrutiny.

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