Person's life changing after trauma: a narrative analysis

- Tytarenko, T.M. (orcid.org/0000-0001-8522-0894) (2020) Person's life changing after trauma: a narrative analysis Personality in society: psychological mechanisms of activity: collective monograph. pp. 139-154. ISSN ISBN 978-966-397-209-1

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Abstract

The purpose of the work was to investigate the psychological aspects of a person's life-changing after the trauma. Combatants' transformations of life after returning from the war in the East of Ukraine was in the focus of this study. It was analyzed the 91 combatants’ traumatic experience after their returning from the war-zone. The study participants wrote stories about their life based on the proposed post-traumatic narrative scheme. All fragments of the narratives were coded by themes connected to a person`s past, present, future, and dominant life-value. It was studied the common types of person’s life-landscapes after participation in the war. The following types of landscapes had been identified: a) existential (it differs the unwillingness to rethink the traumatic past; to assess the present adequately; the inability to construct the future; the dominant value is survival); b) communicative (it is distinguished by a good understanding of the past; adequate assessment of the present; detailed construction of the future; dominant value is meaningful relationships); c) volunteering (it differs from communicative primarily by the dominant life-value - benefits for others); d) self-realization (it differs in the main value of self-development); e) pragmatic (it distinguished by the major value of career advancement). The most common landscapes were existential and communicative; landscapes of volunteering and self-realization were in second place; on the third - pragmatic one. Prospects for further research is a comparative analysis of combatant`s life-landscapes and landscapes of people experiencing a coronavirus pandemic related trauma.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	life-changing; war trauma; narrative; unwillingness to rethink the past; impossibility to assess the present; inability to construct the future; combatant`s life-landscapes
Subjects:	Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 1 Philosophy. Psychology Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 3 Social Sciences > 37 Education > 37.01/.09 Special auxiliary table for theory, principles, methods and organization of education > 37.06 Social problems in education. Human contacts, relationships
Divisions:	The Institute of Social and Political Psychology > Laboratory for Social Psychology of Personality
Depositing User:	Тетяна Михайлівна Титаренко
Date Deposited:	10 Jul 2020 00:38
Last Modified:	10 Jul 2020 00:40
URI:	https://lib.iitta.gov.ua/id/eprint/721195

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