Academic AbstractWe articulate an intergenerational model of positive psychosocial development that centers storytelling in an ecological framework and is motivated by an orientation toward social justice. We bring together diverse literature (e.g., racial-ethnic socialization, family storytelling, narrative psychology) to argue that the intergenerational transmission of stories about one’s group is equally important for elders and youth, and especially important for groups who are marginalized, because stories provide a developmental resource for resistance and resilience in the face of injustice. We describe how storytelling activities can support positive psychosocial development in culturally dynamic contexts and illustrate our model with a case study involving LGBTQ+ communities, arguing that intergenerational storytelling is uniquely important for this group given issues of access to stories. We argue that harnessing the power of intergenerational storytelling could provide a culturally safe and sustaining practice for fostering psychosocial development among LGBTQ+ people and other equity-seeking populations.Public AbstractUnderstanding one’s identity as part of a group with shared history and culture that has existed through time is important for positive psychological functioning. This is especially true for marginalized communities for whom identity-relevant knowledge is often erased, silenced, or distorted in mainstream public discourses (e.g., school curricula, news media, television, and film). To compensate for these limitations around access, one channel for the transmission of this knowledge is through oral storytelling between generations of elders and youth. Contemporary psychological science has often assumed that such storytelling occurs within families, but when families cannot or would not share such knowledge, youth suffer. We present a model of intergenerational storytelling that expands our ideas around who counts as “family” and how knowledge can be transmitted through alternative channels, using LGBTQ+ communities as a case example.

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代际讲故事和积极的社会心理发展：故事作为边缘化群体的发展资源


学术摘要我们阐明了一种积极的社会心理发展的代际模型，该模型以生态框架为中心讲故事，并以社会正义为导向。我们汇集了不同的文献（例如，种族-民族社会化、家庭故事讲述、叙事心理学），以论证关于一个群体的故事的代际传递对老年人和年轻人同样重要，对边缘化群体尤其重要，因为故事为面对不公正的抵抗和复原力提供了发展资源。我们描述了讲故事活动如何在文化动态背景下支持积极的社会心理发展，并通过一个涉及 LGBTQ+ 社区的案例研究来说明我们的模型，认为鉴于故事获取问题，代际讲故事对这个群体来说具有独特的重要性。我们认为，利用代际讲故事的力量可以为促进 LGBTQ+ 人群和其他寻求平等的人群的社会心理发展提供一种文化安全和可持续的实践。公共摘要了解一个人作为具有共同历史和文化的群体的一部分的身份，这些群体已经随着时间的推移而存在，对于积极的心理功能很重要。对于边缘化社区来说尤其如此，对他们来说，与身份相关的知识在主流公共话语（例如，学校课程、新闻媒体、电视和电影）中经常被抹去、沉默或扭曲。为了弥补这些访问方面的限制，传播这些知识的一个渠道是通过几代老年人和年轻人之间的口头故事。 当代心理科学通常假设这种讲故事发生在家庭内部，但当家庭不能或不愿分享这些知识时，年轻人就会受到影响。我们提出了一种代际讲故事的模式，以 LGBTQ+ 社区为例，扩展了我们关于谁算作“家庭”以及如何通过替代渠道传播知识的想法。