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Article evaluation

Obsessive relational intrusion (ORI)

The article offers a good introduction to the concept, providing a clear definition and examples of behaviors that fit within it. The article establishes the origins of the term, citing the work of the two men who coined it and the work of others who have used the concept in their research. The article is mostly well organized, though it was a unclear why "Stalking" was given its own subhead. It was also unclear why there was a subsection late in the article that repeated information from earlier in the article about who created the term. The article is unbiased, presenting factually what the term represents and how it is used in theories of interpersonal relationship. The viewpoints of the term's originators are heavily represented, but this does not seem to be problematic. There are enough citations of other researchers' work to make it clear that other social scientists have found the concept valid and applicable. The sources cited are mostly peer-reviewed scientific articles accessed through article databases, though there are also references to what appear to be various editions of a popular psychology text, The Dark Side of Close Relationships, by Spitzberg and Cupach (1998; 2008). The citations are well-done, and the links to the cited articles work. The article was published on April 15, 2006, 13 years ago. It is part of the WikiProject Psychology, and it is rated "Stub-class."

There are two main problems with the page. (1) The page is very out-of-date. Edits should be done to update how the concept has been utilized since 2006 and to reflect any research that has been done using the theory. (2) On a related note: The section on "ORI and Facebook" needs to be completely changed (updated). This should be changed into a section on "ORI and Social Media." The entry was written before Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat existed. Research that looks at ORI in relation to these social media should now be described and referenced on the page.

Article outline:

Narrative Co-Construction

Narrative co-construction describes a method by which meaning is made through interactive dialogue, especially in personal relationships.

Background

The concept was introduced in 1992 by Arthur Bochner, a researcher in the field of speech communication and interpersonal communication, and Carolyn Ellis, a sociologist. They presented narrative dialogic and dialectical methods that would allow partners to synthesize and compare their viewpoints, goals, and beliefs so as to improve their communication in a specific relationship.

Theoretical Components

[discuss grounding in phenomenology, the interpersonal relationship literature, the study of narrative, the work of Denzin & Lincoln, etc]

Applications of the Method

Though originally applied mainly in the study of personal relationships, the concept of narrative co-construction has come to be widely applied in the social sciences. Autoethnographers have used the technique, putting their own experiences and viewpoints in dialogue with those of other people as well as with language and images found in media. Narrative co-construction has also been used in the study of health and health communication, where researchers have interviewed patients and health care providers, using co-construction techniques, to aid in sense-making. Child and adolescent psychology, education, and family dynamics research are other fields which have seen contributions from experiments using co-construction.

References

Bochner, A., & Ellis, C. (1992). Personal narrative as a social approach to interpersonal communication. Communication Theory, 2(2): 165-172. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.1992.tb00036.x

Cann, C., & DeMeulenaere, E. (2012). Critical co-constructed autoethnography. Cultural Studies, 12(2): 146-158. Doi: 10.1177/1532708611435214

Ellis, C., & Bochner, A. (1999). Bringing emotion and personal narrative into medical social science. Health, 3, 229-237.

Kelly, K. R., & Bailey, A. L. (2013). Dual development and conversational and narrative discourse: Mother and child interactions during narrative co-construction. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 59(4): 426-460.

Masterson, M. (2018). Self-discovery through the experiential co-construction of life stories in the foreign language classroom. Journal of Experiential Education, 41(4): 341-355. doi: 10.1177/1053825918785396

McLean, K. C., & Mansfield, C. D. (2012). The co-construction of adolescent narrative identity: narrative processing as a function of adolescent age, gender, and maternal scaffolding. Development Psychology, 48(2): 436-447. Doi: 10.1037/a0025563

Radcliffe, E., Lowton, K., & Morgan, M. (2013). Co-construction of chronic illness narratives by older stroke survivors and their spouses. Sociology of Health & Illness, 35(7): 993-1007. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12012