What is it about?
This article reports on a series of studies to develop scale to measure how aware we are of narratives or stories about our own lives, and how well we believe we can piece together our past experiences in a coherent way. It reports on the scale characteristics, and shows that it correlates with other measures of self-concept and well-being, as well as correlating with written narratives about the self.
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Why is it important?
Increased interest in narrative identity has fostered a need for more ways of measuring our sense of self as being constructed by stories about our experiences. This study provides one such measure that focuses on how aware we are that we might have developed these stories.
Perspectives
The scale reported in this article provides an easy, and efficient way of assessing one dimension of narrative identity, namely the awareness of it.
David Hallford
Deakin University
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This page is a summary of: Development and Validation of the Awareness of Narrative Identity Questionnaire (ANIQ), Assessment, April 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1073191115607046.
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