Life story interview and analysis
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HAS121assessment5analysisinfo.pptxHAS 121 week 8
Life story analysis ideas
Questions to ask the data
1. What have been the key contexts of this person’s life? How has history and culture influenced this person’s life?
Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological model of human development
Age norms and social clocks
Socialisation agents, methods and outcomes
Risk factors
Protective factors
Resiliency
Theories of human development: cognitive, psychoanalytical, behavioural and social learning, biological, systems, social cognitive
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2. How is this person’s life linked to particular other people? What are the major roles they have played in life and how are those roles defined?
Attachment theory
Assortative mating
Family life cycle model
Family systems theory
Goodness of fit
Parenting styles and demandingness/responsiveness
Grand parenting (styles)
Marriage (marital quality, success, adjustment and satisfaction)
Peer status
Phases of dating
Romantic relationships, stages of development (adolescence)
Sibling relationships
Social convoy
Triangular theory of love (Sternberg)
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3. How would you describe this person’s important identities? How have these identities changed over time?
Ethnic identity
Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development
Gender development
Marcia’s identity statuses
Temperament traits (Thomas & Chess)
Personality (Big 5)
Possible selves
Retirement (factors contributing to adjustment)
Self-concept
Self-esteem
Successful aging
The big 5 – psychological trait theory - The theory identifies five factors:
openness to experience (inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious)
conscientiousness (efficient/organized vs. extravagant/careless)
extraversion (outgoing/energetic vs. solitary/reserved)
agreeableness (friendly/compassionate vs. challenging/callous)
neuroticism (sensitive/nervous vs. resilient/confident)
Marcia’s identity statuses – Marcia used the term identity status to label and describe four unique developmental identity stations or points. These are: identity diffusion, identity foreclosure, identity moratorium and identity achievement.
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