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Content analysis in scientific narrative psychology (NARRCAT)

Content analysis in scientific narrative psychology (NARRCAT). János László Institute of Psychology of the HAS and University of Pécs. Narrative. Narrative text: temporally and causally organized sequence of propositions

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Content analysis in scientific narrative psychology (NARRCAT)

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  1. Content analysis in scientific narrative psychology (NARRCAT) János László Institute of Psychology of the HAS and University of Pécs

  2. Narrative • Narrative text: temporally and causally organized sequence of propositions • Narrative thinking: innate capacity to establish rational, causal order of events

  3. Narrative and identity • Non-essentialist concept of self: narrative identity • Self as life story (Erikson, 1959; MacAdams, 1985; Ricoueur, 1991) • Psychological concepts: identity crisis, identity closure, identity trauma • Psychological dimensions of identity in life narratives: complexity, maturity, integrity

  4. Group narratives • Collectiverepresentations of groupevents (grouphistory) • Similarities and differenceswithindividual life story • Standard life coursevsbeginning and termination is open ended • Developmentaltasksarewelldefinedvsdevelopmentdependsonactualneedsforpersisting and growth. • Althoughindividual life storiesarealsopreformedbysocial and culturalstandards, theyaresubjectivelyaccessible. Whereasgrouphistoriesonlyexistinwrittenororaldiscourse

  5. How to squize out identity related content from life stories and from group histories? • Content analysis • Qualitative • Quantitative • Hermeneutic, qualitative analysis of narratives • Interpretation of themes of life narrative against the sociocultural knowledge horizon in psychological terms • No empirical test of validity

  6. Aid of computer technologytoqualitativeanalysis • Correlational techniques in content analysis (Weber, 1983; Hogenraad, MacKenzieand Péladeau, 2003) • Emprically aided hermeneutics • Co-occurence of words in the text shed light to hidden themes

  7. Computerizedquantitativecontentanalysis • (Psychological) categories dictionaries • Testing any kind of plausible hypotheses • Problem of dictionaries: disambiguation, lemmatization (particularly in agglutinative languages) • Introduction of grammatical categories and function words into dictionaries • E.g. tens or self reference with postfixes • Full morphological analysis is needed • Morphological analysis enables grammatical analysis • NooJ enables both

  8. Role of grammar • Grammarenablescomplexpsychologicalcategoriesreflectedinmodalitiessuchasintentionality • I liketoteach versus I wouldliketoteach • Intentionality + activity (dictionary of activevspassiveverbs) = AGENCY • Agency is a narrativecategory

  9. Narrative categories • AGENCY • SPATIAL TEMPORAL PERSPECTIVE • PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE • TEMPORAL ORGANIZATION • EVALUATION • CHARACTERS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS • EMOTIONAL ORGANIZATION • SPATIAL-EMOTIONAL DISTANCE REGULATION

  10. Further categories • Negation • Self-reference • Us-reference • In self-narratives and group narratives can be interpreted as narrative categories

  11. Narrativestructure-narrativecomposition • Agency • Who is agent and who is passive? • When is a group active and when is it passive? • Evaluation • Ingroup-outgroup evaluation • Emotions • Type of emotios that the ingroup and outgroups feel • Etc • Traditional social psychological issues of group identity and intergroup relations studied by CA

  12. Two major features of narrativecategorialcontentanalysis (NARRCAT) • It is directed to the meaning construction by narrative composition in life narratives and group narratives • It transforms narrative composition into narrative categories and makes it amenable to categorial i.e. nomothetic content analysis

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