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Subjective Perception of Personal Change

BLATNÝ, Marek and Terezie PILÁTOVÁ OSECKÁ

Basic information

Original name

Subjective Perception of Personal Change

Name in Czech

Subjektivní percepce změny

Name (in English)

Subjective Perception of Personal Change

Edition

Huddersfield, Narrative, Memory & Everyday Life, p. 59-67, 9 pp. 2005

Publisher

University of Huddersfield Press

Other information

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Keywords in English

change; subjective perception; life course
Změněno: 5/1/2006 18:05, Mgr. Terezie Pilátová Osecká, PhD

Abstract

In English

Personality stability and change is mostly studied nomothetically, usually by means of questionnaires. Therefore, we focus on subjective description of personal change. The research was done with the sample of 56 adults (22 men and 34 women aged from 38 to 42). We used the life-line technique to elicit a life-story telling respondents were asked to draw a line representing their lives and then were invited to tell a story about their lives. We asked the question about personal change explicitly. In most cases the referred changes can be labelled as normative, which are typical for adulthood (acquirement of autonomy, deepened sense of responsibility, shift towards the more rational and calm approach to life events, expected bodily changes). Non-normative personal changes are associated with unusual life course (eg. continued living with parents) or life events (eg. death of son).

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