Gender Differences in Adolescents' Autobiographical Narratives

Autor/inn/en	Fivush, Robyn; Bohanek, Jennifer G.; Zaman, Widaad; Grapin, Sally
Titel	Gender Differences in Adolescents' Autobiographical Narratives
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognition and Development, 13 (2012) 3, S.295-319 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1524-8372
DOI	10.1080/15248372.2011.590787
Schlagwörter	Gender Differences; Adolescents; Autobiographies; Personal Narratives; Reflection; Rhetoric; Story Telling; Correlation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschlechterkonflikt; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Autobiography; Autobiografie; Autobiographie; Erlebniserzählung; Rhetorik; Korrelation
Abstract	In this study, the authors examined gender differences in narratives of positive and negative life experiences during middle adolescence, a critical period for the development of identity and a life narrative (Habermas & Bluck, 2000; McAdams, 2001). Examining a wider variety of narrative meaning-making devices than previous research, they found that 13- to 16-year old racially and economically diverse females told more elaborated, coherent, reflective, and agentic narratives than did adolescent males. There were surprisingly few differences between narratives of positive and negative events. These findings replicate and extend previous findings of gender differences in autobiographical narratives in early childhood and adulthood and indicate that gender is a critical filter through which personal memory and identity are constructed during adolescence. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10