Objective. This study explored the types of war stories Polish families tell and the lessons family members learn from these stories. Design. Polish adults (n = 32) were interviewed about their intergenerational family stories. Interview transcripts were analyzed using narrative thematic analysis. Results. Analyses revealed four types of war stories—survival stories, hero stories, tragedy and loss stories, and missing stories—and four lessons learned from these stories—how to live, how to be Polish, how to cope, and how to understand others. Conclusions. Findings advance narrative scholarship by integrating communicated narrative sense-making theory with the ecological systems model of family narratives. In so doing, we highlighted how macro-system meanings, values, and beliefs emerged in these family stories. Findings also show the presence and effect of silencing in intergenerational family storytelling.

Haley Kranstuber Horstman

Jennifer G. Bohanek

Amnee Elkhalid

Anna Cierpka

Karolina Małek

Ewelina Łapińska

Parenting

Parenting: Science and Practice strives to promote the exchange of empirical findings, theoretical perspectives, and methodological approaches from all disciplines that help to define and advance theory, research, and practice in parenting, caregiving, and childrearing broadly construed. "Parenting" is interpreted to include biological parents and grandparents, adoptive parents, nonparental caregivers, and others, including infrahuman parents. Articles on parenting itself, antecedents of parenting, parenting effects on parents and on children, the multiple contexts of parenting, and parenting interventions and education are all welcome. The journal brings parenting to science and science to parenting.

Parenting: Science and Practice aims to promote the exchange of empirical findings, theoretical perspectives, and methodological approaches from various disciplines that help define and advance theory, research, and practice in parenting, caregiving, and childrearing. The term 'parenting' encompasses biological parents and grandparents, adoptive parents, non-parental caregivers, and others, including non-human parents. We welcome articles on parenting itself, antecedents of parenting, the effects of parenting on both parents and children, the multiple contexts of parenting, and parenting interventions and education. The journal is dedicated to bridging the gap between parenting and science, bringing scientific insights into the realm of parenting.

《Parenting: Science and Practice》旨在促进来自各个学科的实证研究成果、理论视角和方法论的交流，这些研究有助于定义和推动育儿、照顾和儿童养育的理论、研究和实践。"育儿"的定义包括生物父母和祖父母、养父母、非父母照顾者以及其他人群，包括非人类父母。我们欢迎关于育儿本身、育儿的前因、育儿对父母和儿童的影响、育儿的多重背景以及育儿干预和教育的文章。该期刊致力于将育儿与科学相结合，将科学带入育儿领域。

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心理学	4
心理学, 家庭研究	4
心理学, 心理学发育	4

Polish Family War Stories: Perpetuating and Healing Intergenerational Trauma

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