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Narrative identity is the internalized, evolving, integrative story of the self — the story a person tells, mostly to themselves, about how they came to be who they are and where they are going. The theory, developed most systematically by Dan P. McAdams in a series of books and papers from 1985 onward, treats identity not as a fixed trait or a static set of values but as a **story** — with setting, characters, turning points, themes, and a projected future. People begin constructing narrative identities in adolescence and young adulthood and continue revising them across the adult life course…

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