INCREMENTAL VALIDITY OF NARRATIVE IDENTITY
While much of my own and others' research effort has focused on individual differences in personality traits, traits are not the only way to represent the content of identity (e.g., Roberts, Harms, Lodi-Smith, Wood, & Webb, 2006). One of the central aspects my program of research reflects this by using a mixed methods approach to identity through addressing the development of narrative identity and its impact on optimal aging. For example, I show that trait maturation is related to mature narratives of personality change and that individual differences in narrative processing predict important variance in psychological health during college above and beyond the effects of trait maturation (Lodi-Smith et al., 2009). My review work demonstrates the complementarity of traits and narratives both at the level of the content of identity and in the prediction of psychological health across numerous studies in narrative psychology (Adler, Lodi-Smith, Philippe, & Houle, 2016).
Relevant publications:
Relevant publications:
- Adler, J.M., Dunlop, W.L., Fivush, R., Lilgendahl, J.P., Lodi-Smith, J., McAdams, D.P., McLean, K.C., Pasupathi, M., & Syed, M. (in press). Research methods for studying narrative identity: A primer. In press at Social Psychology and Personality Science.
- Adler, J., Lodi-Smith, J., Philippe, F, & Houle, I. (2016). The incremental validity of narrative identity in predicting psychological well-being: A review of the field and recommendations for the future. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 20, 142-175.
- Lodi-Smith, J. (2015). Narrative utility and self-concept clarity in contextual personality research. European Journal of Personality, 29, 336 – 337.
- Lodi-Smith, J., Geise, A.C., Roberts, B.W., & Robins, R.W. (2009). Narrating personality change. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 679-689.
- Roberts, B. W., Harms, P.D., Smith, J. L., Wood, D. & Webb, M. (2006). Methods in personality psychology. In Eid, M. & Diener, E. (Eds.). Handbook of Psychological Assessment: A Multimethod Perspective. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.