Shanevska, Marija (2023) Gender Identity and the Construction of Personal Narratives. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Gender identity is a fundamental aspect of identity development during emerging adulthood. Increasingly conceptualized as a broader construct, gender identity is steering away from traditional positions of gender and towards encompassing a wider range of experiences. Through narratives, individuals construct their gender around the normative identity, giving researchers deeper insight into identity development. Moreover, to examine the effects of gender on narration means also to examine the positioning of gender identity within an overarching socio-cultural structure and the nature of the stories emerging from it. This study aims to implement such an approach in the context of vividness of personal narratives, where instead of looking at gender differences, we examine differences in positioning with a narrative. We investigate the question of whether differences in narrative vividness are related to differences in the experiences of positioning with gender identity? To answer this, a sample of 85 students participated in an online survey assessing their experience with their gender identity through both questionnaire and narrative prompts. The individual's experiences were measured as gender alignment, exploration, and centrality as components of gender identity positioning, while narrative vividness was coded as valence and specificity of narratives. Statistical analysis found no influence of the selected facets of gender identity on narrative vividness, but confirmed the potential relationship between gender identity labels and gender-typical experiences, indicating possible directions for a more nuanced study of gender. However, due to the limitations of the study, further research is needed to reach more conclusive results. Keywords: gender identity, gender-typicality, personal narratives, narrative differences
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Gmelin, J.H. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2023 08:44 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Aug 2023 08:44 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2750 |
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