TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring narrative identity
T2 - rater coding versus questionnaire-based approaches
AU - Gehrt, Tine Bennedsen
AU - Nielsen, Niels Peter
AU - Hoyle, Rick
AU - Rubin, David
AU - Berntsen, Dorthe
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Narrative identity–how individuals narrate their lived and remembered past–is usually assessed via independent rater coding, but new methods relying on self-report have been introduced. To test the assumption that different methods assess aspects of the same underlying construct, studies measuring similar components of narrative identity with different methods are needed. However, such studies are surprisingly rare. To begin to fill this gap, the present study compared the narrative variables, temporal coherence, causal coherence, and thematic coherence, measured via rater coding of participants’ self-generated narratives of the remembered past and via subscales of the self-report measure Awareness of Narrative Identity Questionnaire (ANIQ). The results showed that the ANIQ subscales did not correlate significantly with their corresponding rater-coded dimension, and that the ANIQ subscales were generally unrelated to the other rater-coded dimensions. Furthermore, an exploratory factor analysis demonstrated that the ANIQ subscales loaded together on a factor that did not include any rater-coded variables. The findings suggest that the narrative variables share little empirical overlap when assessed via the ANIQ and rater coding of self-generated narratives.
AB - Narrative identity–how individuals narrate their lived and remembered past–is usually assessed via independent rater coding, but new methods relying on self-report have been introduced. To test the assumption that different methods assess aspects of the same underlying construct, studies measuring similar components of narrative identity with different methods are needed. However, such studies are surprisingly rare. To begin to fill this gap, the present study compared the narrative variables, temporal coherence, causal coherence, and thematic coherence, measured via rater coding of participants’ self-generated narratives of the remembered past and via subscales of the self-report measure Awareness of Narrative Identity Questionnaire (ANIQ). The results showed that the ANIQ subscales did not correlate significantly with their corresponding rater-coded dimension, and that the ANIQ subscales were generally unrelated to the other rater-coded dimensions. Furthermore, an exploratory factor analysis demonstrated that the ANIQ subscales loaded together on a factor that did not include any rater-coded variables. The findings suggest that the narrative variables share little empirical overlap when assessed via the ANIQ and rater coding of self-generated narratives.
KW - Narrative identity
KW - autobiographical memory
KW - rater coding
KW - self-report
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85194767218&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09658211.2024.2359503
DO - 10.1080/09658211.2024.2359503
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 38809783
SN - 0965-8211
VL - 32
SP - 863
EP - 873
JO - Memory
JF - Memory
IS - 7
ER -