Preface

Families, Stories, and the Life Course: An Ecological Context

Michael W. Pratt

Barbara H. Fiese

PART I: Child Narratives: Competence and Attachment Development

Echoing Our Parents: Parental Influences on Children's Narration

Carole Peterson

Allysa McCabe

Family Narratives and the Development of Children's Emotional Well-Being

Robyn Fivush

Jennifer Bohanek

Rachel Robertson

Marshall Duke

Coherence and Representations in Preschoolers' Narratives: Associations With Attachment in Infancy

Efrat Sher-Censor

David Oppenheim

Children's Empathic Representations in Relation to Early Caregiving Patterns Among Low-Income African American Mothers

JoAnn Robinson

Michael Eltz

PART II: Adolescent Narratives: Identity Development and Its Contexts

Adoption Narratives: The Construction of Adoptive Identity During Adolescence

Nora Dunbar

Harold D. Grotevant

Adolescents' Representations of Parents' Voices in Family Stories: Value Lessons, Personal Adjustment, and Identity Development

Mary Louise Arnold

Michael W. Pratt

Cheryl Hicks

When Parents' Stories Go to Pot: Telling Personal Transgressions to Teenage Kids

Avril Thorne

Kate C. McLean

Anna Dasbach

PART III: Young Adulthood: Intimacy and Relationship Narratives

Marital Attachment and Family Functioning: Use of Narrative Methodology

Susan Dickstein

PART IV: Midlife: Parenting and Narrative Socialization Processes in the Family

Generativity and the Narrative Ecology of Family Life

Dan P. McAdams

Pin-Curling Grandpa's Hair in the Comfy Chair: Parents' Stories of Growing Up and Potential Links to Socialization in the Preschool Years

Barbara H. Fiese

Nicole L. Bickham

The Cultural Context of Parent-Child Reminiscing: A Functional Analysis

Qi Wang

Listening Is Active: Lessons From the Narrative Practices of Taiwanese Families

Heidi Fung

Peggy J. Miller

Lu-Chun Lin

PART V: Aging and Grandparenthood in Narrative

Telling Stories and Getting Acquainted: How Age Matters

Odette Gould

``As Long as They Go Back Down the Driveway at the End of the Day'': Stories of the Satisfactions and Challenges of Grandparenthood

Joan E. Norris

Stephanie Kuiack

Michael W. Pratt

Writing a Connection: Intergenerational Communication Through Stories

Ellen Bouchard Ryan

Kristine A. Pearce

Ann P. Anas

Joan E. Norris

PART VI: Conclusions and Future Directions

Metaphors and Meanings of Family Stories: Integrating Life Course and Systems Perspectives on Narrative

Barbara H. Fiese

Michael W. Pratt

Author Index

Subject Index