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Köber, Christin; Habermas, Tilmann – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
In Western cultures, life narratives are typically expected to recount the narrator's life from birth to the present. Disparate autobiographical memories need to be integrated into a more or less coherent story, which is facilitated by an overarching temporal macrostructure. The temporal macrostructure consists of elaborated beginnings that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Autobiographies, Time
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Masche, J. Gowert; van Dulmen, Manfred H. M. – Developmental Review, 2004
Based on Schaie's (1965) general developmental model, various data-driven and theory-based approaches to the exploration and disentangling of age, cohort, and time effects on human behavior have emerged. This paper presents and discusses an advancement of data-driven interpretations that stresses parsimony when interpreting the results of…
Descriptors: Sequential Approach, Time, Individual Development, Age Differences