Family Stories And The Life Course: Across Time And Generations

Family Stories and the Life Course Across Time and Generations Family Stories and the Life Course Across Time and Generations Edited by Michael W. Pratt Wilfrid Laurier University Barbara H. Fiese Syracuse University 2004 L AWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS Mahwah, New Jersey London This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Copyright © 2004 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microform, retrieval system, or any other means, without prior written permission of the publisher. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers 10 Industrial Avenue Mahwah, New Jersey 07430 Cover design by Kathryn Houghtaling Lacey Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Family stories and the life course : across time and generations / edited by Michael W. Pratt, Barbara H. Fiese. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–8058–4282–9 1. Family — Psychological aspects. 2. Developmental psychology. 3. Intergenerational relations. I. Pratt, Michael W. II. Fiese, Barbara H. HQ728.F32443 2004 306.85-dc22 2003049447 ISBN 1-4106-1030-6 Master e-book ISBN To Helen and Adelle, and to the many generations gone before and to come. —MWP To all those who have shared and been part of our family stories. —BHF Contents Preface 1 Families, Stories, and the Life Course: An Ecological Context Michael W. Pratt and Barbara H. Fiese xi 1 PART I: Child Narratives: Competence and Attachment Development 2 Echoing Our Parents: Parental InXuences on Children’s Narration Carole Peterson and Allysa McCabe 27 3 Family Narratives and the Development of Children’s Emotional Well-Being Robyn Fivush, Jennifer Bohanek, Rachel Robertson, and Marshall Duke 55 4 Coherence and Representations in Preschoolers’ Narratives: Associations With Attachment in Infancy Efrat Sher-Censor and David Oppenheim 77 5 Children’s Empathic Representations in Relation to Early Caregiving Patterns Among Low-Income African American Mothers JoAnn Robinson and Michael Eltz 109 PART II: Adolescent Narratives: Identity Development and Its Contexts 6 Adoption Narratives: The Construction of Adoptive Identity During Adolescence Nora Dunbar and Harold D. Grotevant 135 vii viii CONTENTS 7 Adolescents’ Representations of Parents’ Voices in Family Stories: Value Lessons, Personal Adjustment, and Identity Development Mary Louise Arnold, Michael W. Pratt, and Cheryl Hicks 163 8 When Parents’ Stories Go to Pot: Telling Personal Transgressions to Teenage Kids Avril Thorne, Kate C. McLean, and Anna Dasbach 187 PART III: Young Adulthood: Intimacy and Relationship Narratives 9 Marital Attachment and Family Functioning: Use of Narrative Methodology Susan Dickstein 213 PART IV: Midlife: Parenting and Narrative Socialization Processes in the Family 10 Generativity and the Narrative Ecology of Family Life Dan P. McAdams 235 11 Pin-Curling Grandpa’s Hair in the Comfy Chair: Parents’ Stories of Growing Up and Potential Links to Socialization in the Preschool Years Barbara H. Fiese and Nicole L. Bickham 259 12 The Cultural Context of Parent-Child Reminiscing: A Functional Analysis Qi Wang 279 13 Listening Is Active: Lessons From the Narrative Practices of Taiwanese Families Heidi Fung, Peggy J. Miller, and Lu-Chun Lin 303 PART V: Aging and Grandparenthood in Narrative 14 Telling St