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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Narrative Science
  • Health Promotion

Background:

  • The study explores human capacity for future imagination using
  • Letters from the Future
  • as a health promotion instrument.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze narrative processes and organizational types in
  • Letters from the Future
  • to understand future self-construction.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative analysis of 480
  • Letters from the Future
  • from Dutch and German participants.
  • Identified five narrative processes: imagining, evaluating, orienting, expressing emotions, and engaging in dialogue.
  • Identified six types of process organization based on functionality, temporality, path description, and imagination vividness.

Main Results:

  • Five distinct narrative processes were identified in the letters.
  • Six types of how these processes are organized were identified, varying in functionality, temporality, and imagination vividness.
  • These types can serve as 'pathways' in narrative health practice.

Conclusions:

  • The identified types provide a framework for understanding individuals' future imagination processes.
  • These pathways can guide narrative health practices to support well-being.
  • Further research is needed to explore the application of these pathways in navigating towards health.