ABSTRACT In this paper, we present an exploratory analysis of real-time micro-changes in identity configurations occurring within the span of one life-story style interview. We examined how one interviewee – a woman who is both religious and a high school counselor in a non-religious school – when prompted to narrate a life-story incorporating the two domains of religious and occupational identity, presents different consecutive ways of configurating the relations between these potentially disparate identity elements. We followed these changes across the interview, and identified four identity goals that seemingly trigger identity reflection and the reconfiguration of identity elements in real-time: the goals of internal integration and coherence; comprehensiveness; ownership of identity, and securing social recognition and affiliation. The possible implications of research focusing on the real-time challenge of configurating identity, rather than on exploration and commitment, is discussed.

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跟踪生活故事采访中配置身份元素的实时变化：探索性案例研究

摘要在本文中，我们对在一次生活故事风格访谈期间发生的身份配置的实时微变化进行了探索性分析。我们研究了一位受访者——一位既是宗教信仰的女性，也是一所非宗教学校的高中辅导员——当被要求讲述一个包含宗教和职业身份这两个领域的生活故事时，如何呈现出不同的连续配置关系的方式在这些潜在不同的身份元素之间。我们在整个采访过程中跟踪了这些变化，并确定了四个似乎实时触发身份反思和身份元素重新配置的身份目标：内部整合和连贯的目标；全面性；身份的所有权，并确保社会认可和归属。