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  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Identity Studies

Background:

  • Understanding how societal structures influence individual identity is crucial.
  • Life narratives offer rich data for exploring lived experiences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine how structural domains (e.g., race, gender, social class) are represented in young adults' life narratives.
  • To explore the impact of these domains on identity formation using an intersectional framework.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted semi-structured interviews with 177 young adults from minoritized groups.
  • Collected 885 life narratives focusing on domain-general, ethnic/racial, gender, social class, and intersectional experiences.
  • Analyzed narrative features including presence, connection, meaning-making, and affective tone.

Main Results:

  • Ethnicity/race was the most frequently discussed structural domain.
  • Meaning-making and positive affective tone were highest in self-defining narratives and correlated with the number of structural domains.
  • Social class narratives showed the lowest connection to structural domains and the most negative affective tone.

Conclusions:

  • Structural domains significantly manifest in young adults' narratives, influencing identity.
  • The interconnectedness of these domains and their associated meaning-making processes are key to understanding identity development.
  • An intersectional approach is vital for capturing the complexity of these experiences.