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Beyond the redemptive self: Narratives of acceptance in later life (and in Other Contexts)
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“While couples’ relationships can begin at any point in life, those relationships that have survived the earlier culling of social networks (English & Carstensen 2014) can be very hard to leave and replace, and they have a special place in people’s life stories (McAdams et al. 2022).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- McAdams, D. P., Logan, R. L., & Reischer, H. N.
- Affiliations
- Northwestern University (US)
- Corresponding author
- McAdams, Dan P.
- Venue
- Journal of Research in Personality
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022-10
- Volume
- 100
- Pages
- 104286
- ISSN
- 0092-6566 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4292381900
- Cited by
- 25
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 2
- FWCI
- 3.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Research in Personality (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Keywords
- life stories, old age, midlife, generativity, psychological well-being, narrative gerontology, disability studies, tragic narrative, loss and suffering, interpersonal relationships
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