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The Me I Know - A Study of Adult Identity (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
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The Me I Know - A Study of Adult Identity (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
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For the last 5 years I have been living with 94 adults. These 94
adults made up the sample of people in a study on adult development
that Dale Dannefer and I began in 1980. This book represents my
efforts to condense the almost 200 hours of tape-recorded material
from the 94 adults into a form that captures at least some of the
diversity and also some of the commonalities in their answers to
the ques tion "Who am I?" My version of their answers is based on
their reflections about themselves as family members, workers, and
people with a goal in life. In arriv ing at the conclusion that
adults attempt to see themselves as loved, competent, and good
human beings, I believe that I have done justice to these people
and their answers to my interview questions. Arriving at the point
of being able to write about these 94 people's identities has not
been an easy process. Countless attempts at numerically based
rating systems were tried and discarded progressively, until
finally I decided to read all the trans cripts in sequence, person
by person rather than question by question. What I found when I
approached them as total individuals was surprising to me. I found
a vibrant theme of certainty and self-assuredness in their
identities that flew in the face of my previous ideas about
developmental change in adulthood."
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