Constructing Stories of Self-Growth: How Individual Differences in Patterns of Autobiographical Reasoning Relate to Well-Being in Midlife

This study involved an in-depth quantitative analysis of midlife adults\u27 life stories, using \u27causal connections\u27 -- i.e., interpretations of how past events shape the growth of the self -- as the core unit of narrative analysis. We found that interpretations of self-growth predict well-being even after controlling for traits and demographic factors and that growth from negative events is more predictive of well-being than growth from positive events. --author-supplied descriptio