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Love as story, love as storytelling

Author(s) -

Dunlop William L.

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

personal relationships

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.81

H-Index - 83

eISSN - 1475-6811

pISSN - 1350-4126

DOI - 10.1111/pere.12271

Subject(s) - storytelling , narrative , mindset , psychology , romance , personality , social psychology , big five personality traits , developmental psychology , psychoanalysis , literature , art , epistemology , philosophy

Across three studies, individual differences in the degree to which (a) participants enjoyed autobiographical storytelling with their romantic partners (storytelling enjoyment [SE]) and (b) thought about these relationships in narrative terms (narrative mindset [NM]) were examined in relation to psychological functioning and romantic relationship narratives. Drawing data from over 1,650 participants, relationship satisfaction, certain positive personality traits, and a dimension of secure attachment corresponded with both SE and NM. SE and NM also related to features of participants' relationship narratives. Storytelling and applying a NM to one's love life may carry implications for functioning within the romantic domain.

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