{"id":2051,"date":"2015-03-10T13:50:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T05:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org\/journal\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2015-03-11T16:39:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T08:39:46","slug":"the-reality-and-truth-of-self-narrative-research-a-discussion-on-quality-criterion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org.tw\/journal\/?p=2051","title":{"rendered":"The Reality and Truth of Self-narrative Research: A Discussion on Quality Criterion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jui-Ping Hung<\/strong>
\nChinese Culture University
\nHsiao-Ting Chen<\/strong>
\nHsing Wu Institute of Technology
\nChi-Chia Chuang<\/strong>
\nThe Garden of Hope Foundation<\/p>\n

This study aims to discuss and respond to an essential question about self-narrative research: Can personal stories represent reality? The researchers of this study reflected on this question based on their own experience of studying and directing graduate students\u2019 self-narrative researches. Four types of reality in the philosophical aspect of the ontology are discussed first, which indicate that self-narratives are based on the dimension of the constructed reality. Moreover, by examining the four claims of the theory of communicative action in Habermas\u2019 universal pragmatics, it becomes evident that the focus of narrative research lies on the sincere reflection of one\u2019s subjective world, not the truthfulness or falseness of the objective world. In addition, scholars from different disciplines deem these dissertations unacceptable based on questions of rightness, yet rightness is established on the consensus of the related communities. Therefore, this study suggests that the community of the narrative research should begin to discuss the quality criteria for dissertations and forms of writing, in order to gradually form consensus. Finally, based on past experience in adopting self-narrative study, this study proposes several quality criteria for future exploration and discussion.<\/p>\n

Keywords: self narrative, life writing, narrative truth, constructed reality, autoethnography, authenticity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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