Integrating the selective reconstruction of the past with an imagined future, narrative identity is a person's internalized and evolving story of the self, functioning to provide life with some degree of meaning and purpose (McAdams & McLean, 2013). While narrative identity has been found to be associated with a range of psychological and social phenomena (e.g., Adler et al., 2015; McAdams & Guo, 2015), cross-national variation in narrative identity has been only minimally examined. For the purposes of the current inquiry, 438 adults from the United States (N = 102), Japan (N = 122), Israel (N = 103), and Denmark (N = 111) wrote narratives on adversity (low point and life challenge) and completed self-report measures on psychological well-being. Part 1 examined the narrative topics discussed, the frequency of narrative indices (redemption, contamination, agency, communion, meaning-making), and their relationship to well-being across the four countries, finding the most cultural difference in levels of redemption and meaning-making and the kinds of events narrated. Part 2 involved a qualitative, thematic analysis of the Japanese, Danish, and Israeli narratives to derive a set of narrative indices characterizing each country. Several emerged in the Japanese narratives (acceptance, attribution of blame, unresolved), the Danish narratives (balanced affect, communal growth, normality), and Israeli narratives (collective responsibility). Taken together, our findings regarding narratives of adversity support the idea that narrative identity cannot be fully captured without an understanding of culture but needs to instead be studied in tandem with the cultural context in which stories reside. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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上下文中的叙事身份：日本、丹麦、以色列和美国的成年人如何讲述艰难的生活事件。


将过去的选择性重建与想象的未来相结合，叙事身份是一个人的自我内化和演变的故事，其功能是为生活提供某种程度的意义和目的（McAdams & McLean，2013）。虽然已发现叙事身份与一系列心理和社会现象有关（例如，Adler 等人，2015 年;McAdams & Guo， 2015），叙事身份的跨国差异只被最低限度地研究过。就目前的调查而言，来自美国 （N = 102）、日本 （N = 122）、以色列 （N = 103） 和丹麦 （N = 111） 的 438 名成年人撰写了关于逆境（低谷和生活挑战）的叙述，并完成了关于心理健康的自我报告措施。第 1 部分研究了所讨论的叙事主题、叙事指数（救赎、污染、能动性、共融、意义建构）的频率以及它们与四个国家福祉的关系，发现了救赎和意义建构水平以及叙述事件类型的最大文化差异。第 2 部分涉及对日本、丹麦和以色列叙事的定性主题分析，以得出一组描述每个国家特征的叙事指数。日本叙事（接受、归咎、未解决）、丹麦叙事（平衡情感、共同成长、正常）和以色列叙事（集体责任）中出现了几个问题。综上所述，我们关于逆境叙事的发现支持这样一种观点，即如果不了解文化，就无法完全捕捉叙事身份，而是需要结合故事所在的文化背景进行研究。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 （c） 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。