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The basic game beginsįrom a full board with one peg missing and finishes at a board position with Triangular board - we use them as examples throughout. Popular board shapes are the 33-hole cross-shaped board, and the 15-hole We consider the one-person game of peg solitaire played on a computer. We argue that longitudinal interview studies, particularly when initiated during times of transition, offer good potential for the identification of micro–ontogenetic linkages. They were also more likely to express negative affect in conjunction with these oppositions and to follow up the oppositions with change-oriented statements. Students in the former group were more likely to state oppositions in their interviews, which we interpret as a problem-generation mechanism. The former group of students, compared to the latter, had spiked rather than flat configurations of micro indicators over time. Differences were found in incidence and configurations of micro indicators for students whose narratives reflected the strongest developmental change over the study period, compared to students who told narratives of stability. ,, View all references dialogical approach to meaning construction. Social Psychology Quarterly, 61 : 68 – 83. How does autodialogue work? Miracles of meaning maintenance and circumvention strategies. The micro analysis was guided by Josephs and Valsiner's (1998)16. , View all references formulation of the developmental process. The development within: An alternative approach to the study of lives. Our ontogenetic narrative analysis was based on Freeman and Robinson's (1990)12.įreeman, M. We address this topic in analyses of semistructured interviews with 10 entering university students, continued over a 2-year period.
Research strategies are needed that enable investigators to examine linkages between real-time, micro identity processes and longer term, ontogenetic processes.