ObjectiveThis study explores how middle‐aged Black Americans talk about race, without prompting, while telling their life stories.MethodDrawing upon a dataset of lengthy Life Story Interviews (N = 70), we first employed a keyword search to identify race‐relevant interview scenes for each participant. Next, we conducted a thematic analysis of these scenes to identify salient racial narrative themes. Finally, we coded race‐relevant scenes to examine the psychological correlates of racial narrative themes.ResultsWe identified 460 total racially themed Life Story Interview scenes, with the number of racially themed scenes ranging from 1 to 17 across participants' interviews. Racial narrative themes included Community of Care, Black Cultural Identity, Multiculturalism, Activism, Encounter with Racism, Systemic Racism, and Racial Reckoning. Quantitative analyses highlight a relationship between racial narrative themes and psychological measures of wisdom and generativity.ConclusionThis study offers insight into the ways that race manifests in the life stories of Black Americans and highlights the importance of considering race in the study of narrative identity, and personality, more broadly.

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“我想提升我的人民”：探索美国中年黑人生活故事中种族主题的心理关联


目的本研究探讨了美国中年黑人如何在没有提示的情况下谈论种族，同时讲述他们的生活故事。方法借鉴了冗长的生活故事访谈数据集（氮= 70），我们首先采用关键词搜索来识别每个参与者与种族相关的采访场景。接下来，我们对这些场景进行了主题分析，以确定显着的种族叙事主题。最后，我们对与种族相关的场景进行编码，以检查种族叙事主题的心理相关性。结果我们总共识别了 460 个种族主题的生活故事访谈场景，参与者的访谈中种族主题场景的数量从 1 到 17 个不等。包括种族叙事主题护理社区,黑人文化认同,多元文化主义,行动主义,遭遇种族主义,系统性种族主义， 和种族清算。定量分析强调了种族叙事主题与智慧和生成力的心理测量之间的关系。结论这项研究深入了解了种族在美国黑人生活故事中的表现方式，并强调了在叙事身份和个性研究中考虑种族的重要性，更广泛地说。