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Area of Science:

  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Cultural Psychology
  • Sociology

Background:

  • Narrative analysis traditionally focuses on story content, structure, or function.
  • Narrative data also offers insights into how context influences self-perception, relationships, and meaning creation.
  • Cross-cultural understanding of selfhood and meaning-making processes remains an area for methodological development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the potential of narrative analysis for cross-cultural research.
  • To develop and describe a systematic method for comparing cultural influences on selfhood and meaning-making.
  • To identify shared and distinct cultural themes in narrative data.

Main Methods:

  • Development of the Comparative Ethnographic Narrative Analysis Method (CENAM).
  • Systematic comparison of narrators' experiences, meaning-making, decisions, and actions across cultures.
  • Qualitative analysis to discover shared and culturally distinct themes, and meta-level cultural beliefs.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method facilitates systematic cross-cultural comparison of narrative data.
  • Identifies shared themes reflecting universal aspects of human experience.
  • Highlights culturally distinct themes and underlying cultural beliefs and values.

Conclusions:

  • Comparative ethnographic narrative analysis is a viable method for cross-cultural research.
  • Emphasizes the need for rigorous methodological standards: shared research questions, comparable samples, unbiased instruments, and high-fidelity training.
  • The method illuminates the intricate relationship between culture, selfhood, and meaning-making.