I get scared all the time: Passivity and disaffiliation in children's personal narratives

Citation
R. Ely et al., I get scared all the time: Passivity and disaffiliation in children's personal narratives, NARRAT INQ, 10(2), 2000, pp. 453-473
Citations number
56
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Communication,"Language & Linguistics
Journal title
NARRATIVE INQUIRY
ISSN journal
1387-6740 → ACNP
Volume
10
Issue
2
Year of publication
2000
Pages
453 - 473
Database
ISI
SICI code
1387-6740(2000)10:2<453:IGSATT>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
A corpus of children's personal narratives was analyzed for themes of passi vity and disaffiliation. the polar opposites of agency and communion, respe ctively. The subjects were 96 working class children between the ages of 4 and 9 years. In their personal narratives, children cited themes of passivi ty more than themes of disaffiliation, with weakness being the most frequen tly cited individual theme of passivity. With age, children increasingly de scribed weakness in others. Correlations across the agency-passivity and co mmunion-disaffiliation modalities revealed theoretically unpredicted. but e mpirically interpretable, results.