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Kate C. McLean is a researcher affiliated with Western Washington University in the United States, focusing primarily on psychology and social sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including sociology and political science, developmental and educational psychology, clinical psychology, education, and gender studies.

Their research addresses key topics such as identity, memory, and therapy; family support in illness; resilience and mental health; youth education and societal dynamics; sexual assault and victimization studies; social and intergroup psychology; and early childhood education and development.

Recent notable publications include:

  • "Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: Challenges, opportunities, and recommendations," 2020, Journal of Personality
  • "Master narrative methodology: A primer for conducting structural-psychological research," 2021, Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology
  • "Who has to tell their trauma story and how hard will it be? Influence of cultural stigma and narrative redemption on the storying of sexual violence," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "Who gets to live the good life? Master Narratives, identity, and well-being within a marginalizing society," 2022, Journal of Research in Personality
  • "Redemptive Stories and Those Who Tell Them are Preferred in the U.S," 2020, Collabra Psychology

McLean frequently publishes in journals such as the Journal of Personality, European Journal of Personality, PLoS ONE, Journal of Research in Personality, and Collabra Psychology.

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including Moin Syed, Nic M. Weststrate, Laura E. R. Blackie, Brianna C. Delker, and Monisha Pasupathi.

Best Publications

  • Selves Creating Stories Creating Selves: A Process Model of Self-Development

    Kate C. McLean;Monisha Pasupathi;Jennifer L. Pals

  • Life's little (and big) lessons: identity statuses and meaning-making in the turning point narratives of emerging adults.

    Kate C. McLean;Michael W. Pratt

  • Personal, Master, and Alternative Narratives: An Integrative Framework for Understanding Identity Development in Context

    Kate C. McLean;Moin Syed

  • Late adolescent identity development: narrative meaning making and memory telling.

    Kate C. McLean

  • The Oxford handbook of identity development

    Kate C. McLean;Moin U. Syed

  • Late adolescents' self-defining memories about relationships.

    Kate C. McLean;Avril Thorne

  • Research Methods for Studying Narrative Identity: A Primer

    Jonathan M. Adler;William L. Dunlop;Robyn Fivush;Jennifer P. Lilgendahl

  • When remembering is not enough: Reflecting on self-defining memories in late adolescence

    Avril Thorne;Kate C. McLean;Amy M. Lawrence

  • Constructing the Self in Early, Middle, and Late Adolescent Boys: Narrative Identity, Individuation, and Well‐Being

    Kate C. McLean;Andrea V. Breen;Marc A. Fournier

  • Stories of the young and the old: Personal continuity and narrative identity.

    Kate C. McLean

  • Processes and content of narrative identity development in adolescence: gender and well-being.

    Kate C. McLean;Andrea V. Breen

  • The empirical structure of narrative identity: The initial big three

    Kate C. McLean;Moin Syed;Monisha Pasupathi;Jonathan M. Adler

  • Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: Challenges, opportunities, and recommendations.

    Eranda Jayawickreme;Frank J. Infurna;Kinan Alajak;Laura E.R. Blackie

  • Understanding identity integration: Theoretical, methodological, and applied issues.

    Moin Syed;Kate C. McLean

  • Telling traumatic events in adolescence: A study of master narrative positioning.

    Avril Thorne;Kate C. McLean

  • An integrated developmental model for studying identity content in context.

    Renee V. Galliher;Kate C. McLean;Moin Syed

  • Processes of Identity Development: Where I Am and How I Got There

    Kate C. McLean;Monisha Pasupathi

  • The content and processes of autobiographical reasoning in narrative identity

    Kate C. McLean;Marc A. Fournier

  • The Co-authored Self: Family Stories and the Construction of Personal Identity

    Kate C. McLean

  • To Tell or Not to Tell: Disclosure and the Narrative Self

    Monisha Pasupathi;Kate C. McLean;Trisha Weeks

  • Identity Development in Cultural Context: The Role of Deviating from Master Narratives

    Kate C. McLean;Jennifer Pals Lilgendahl;Chelsea Fordham;Elizabeth Alpert

Frequent Co-Authors

Moin Syed
Moin Syed University of Minnesota
Monisha Pasupathi
Monisha Pasupathi University of Utah
Dan P. McAdams
Dan P. McAdams Northwestern University
Robyn Fivush
Robyn Fivush Emory University
Ann Frisén
Ann Frisén University of Gothenburg
Edith Chen
Edith Chen Northwestern University
Crystal L. Park
Crystal L. Park University of Connecticut
Patricia Pliner
Patricia Pliner University of Toronto
Howard Tennen
Howard Tennen University of Connecticut
R. Michael Furr
R. Michael Furr Wake Forest University

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