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The redemptive self : stories Americans live by /

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This book identifies and explores a particular story about life - a narrative identity. At the centre of this life story is the concept of redemption as the deliverance from suffering to a better world. Adults with high psychological measures showing a caring and productive approach to life think of...

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Main Author: McAdams, Dan P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Self-perception > United States.
Redemption > Psychology > Miscellanea.
Success > United States > Psychological aspects.
Success.
Self-perception.
Achievement
Self Concept
Social Values > ethnology
United States
Perception de soi > États-Unis.
Rédemption > Psychologie > Miscellanées.
Succès > États-Unis > Aspect psychologique.
Succès.
Perception de soi.
PSYCHOLOGY > Personality.
Success
Self-perception
Success > Psychological aspects
Zelfbeeld.
Electronic books.
Trivia and miscellanea
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:This book identifies and explores a particular story about life - a narrative identity. At the centre of this life story is the concept of redemption as the deliverance from suffering to a better world. Adults with high psychological measures showing a caring and productive approach to life think of their lives as as narratives of redemption.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 390 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-366) and index.
ISBN:9780198039303
0198039301
1423734858
9781423734857
0195176936
9780195176933
9780199786787
019978678X