Colgate University, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346, USA.
Tilburg University, Department of Developmental Psychology, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2021 Feb;37:49-53. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.07.024. Epub 2020 Aug 6.
Narrative identity is likely to be important in the development of personality disorder (PD) in adolescence. Adolescents' life narratives provide rich material that is near to their lived experiences and reveal individual differences in self and relatedness and in ways of constructing meaning. Narrative identity is linked with well-being and psychopathology and shapes coping with adversity. Preliminary research suggests that adolescents and adults with PD narrate their lives in ways that are more negative and express lower agency; narratives may also contain content reflecting PD symptoms. Youth's narrative identities may express personality disturbances in self and relationship processes and may affect the consolidation of or recovery from emerging PD in the transition to adulthood - all possibilities worthy of future investigation.
叙事身份很可能在青少年期人格障碍（PD）的发展中起着重要作用。青少年的生活叙事提供了与他们的生活经历密切相关的丰富素材，揭示了自我和人际关系以及构建意义方式方面的个体差异。叙事身份与幸福感和精神病理学有关，并塑造了应对逆境的方式。初步研究表明，PD 青少年和成年人以更消极的方式叙述自己的生活，并表现出较低的能动性；叙事内容也可能反映 PD 症状。年轻人的叙事身份可能表达了自我和人际关系过程中的人格障碍，可能会影响到成年后 PD 的出现和恢复——所有这些都值得未来进一步研究。
