We review three decades of literature across multiple disciplines that demonstrate the efficacy of narrative story stem methodologies (NSSM) to elicit responses that are projective of mental processes and to reveal what would otherwise be too complex or sensitive to communicate. The review synthesizes evidence for the extensive and diverse utility of NSSM. To accomplish this, we provide theoretical framing and historical background, describe assessment methods, resulting data and analytic approaches, and chart the empirical work of the past decade that relates story stem narratives to a range of developmental outcomes, and meaning-making processes. This synthesis of cross-disciplinary research provides the first comprehensive review of a truly innovative narrative methodology and includes work across periods of development, representing research that has primarily focused on children with increasing emphasis on adolescents and adults.

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叙事故事干法

我们回顾了跨越多个学科的三十年来的文献，这些文献证明了叙事故事干法 (NSSM) 的功效，以引发对心理过程的投射反应，并揭示否则太复杂或太敏感而无法交流的内容。该评价综合了 NSSM 广泛而多样的效用的证据。为了实现这一点，我们提供了理论框架和历史背景，描述了评估方法、结果数据和分析方法，并绘制了过去十年将故事主干叙事与一系列发展结果和意义制定过程联系起来的实证工作。这种跨学科研究的综合提供了对真正创新的叙事方法的第一次全面审查，包括跨发展时期的工作，