Holding two frames at once without picking a winner

Name the two ways of making sense of one question that both feel partly true right now, and write what each one still gets right.

Warum es wirkt

Streib and Keller’s (2018) refinement of Fowler’s model, as Mallery and Mallery (2022) summarise it, moves away from strict stage succession and describes overlapping waves of styles in which a person can show more than one style at a time, with residual elements of earlier styles still present. Feeling partly in two frames is therefore consistent with the model, and writing out both frames gives each its due rather than ranking one as the current self.

So gehst du vor

1. Write the question you cannot settle in one sentence.
2. Write the answer you were raised with, in its own words, and what it still gets right.
3. Write the answer you are moving toward, and what it still gets wrong.
4. Note which frame you use at work, at home, and alone.
5. Write one situation where you would like to use both at once, and what that would require of you.

Evidenz

The overlapping-styles claim is Streib and Keller’s (2018), as summarised by Mallery and Mallery (2022), who also report that longitudinal data has not established a fixed stage order. The practice is an inference from the overlap model and has not been tested. (mechanistic)

Streib and Keller (2018) was not read directly; the overlapping-waves wording is taken from Mallery and Mallery. Streib (2001) is cited from its abstract only, for the religious-styles modification. The authors write that further longitudinal data is needed to identify whether they develop sequentially.

Quellen

• Streib, H. (2001). Faith Development Theory Revisited: The Religious Styles Perspective. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 11(3), 143–158.
• Mallery, S. T., & Mallery, P. (2022). Centers of value and the quest for meaning in faith development: A measurement approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 975160.

Häufiger Fehler

Forcing a decision between the two frames so the in-between feeling ends sooner. The overlap model describes more than one style being active in one person as possible, so the exercise is for seeing what each frame still carries.