TY - JOUR AU - Dunlop, William PY - 2021/08/12 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Narrative Identity’s Nomological Network: Expanding and Organizing Assessment of the Storied Self JF - Personality Science JA - PS VL - 2 IS - SE - THEORY DO - 10.5964/ps.6469 UR - https://ps.psychopen.eu/index.php/ps/article/view/6469 SP - 1-31 AB - The life story, or narrative identity, is a psychosocial construction that brings together and integrates the self and experience within a broad story-based framework. Personality psychologists typically capture aspects of this inner story by prompting participants for descriptions of life chapters and/or specific and self-definitional autobiographical key scenes (e.g., high points, low points, turning points). Features of participants’ responses are then quantified for their thematic and/or structural content. There exists a number of additional and complementary assessment techniques that could buttress study of, and theory pertaining to, narrative identity. Here, I work to identify these assessments, which include self-reports, informant reports, and behavioral observations, and organize them within narrative identity’s nomological network. This work concludes with a number of suggestions for the ways in which traditional assessments may be better attuned to capture narrative identity’s integrative nature. ER -