As part of a research project aimed at establishing and explaining the effects of narrative autobiographical life review methods, we are conducting brief narrative autobiographical interviews from elderly participants (age 80+) for both an experimental and a control group. Quantitative measures and narrative interviews are collected before, immediately after, and five months after intervention with a life review method. The main hypothesis is that the effects of this method on well-being and

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... lity of the caring relationship will occur because of an increased narrative competence. To establish that, we need to measure the degree of narrative competence as objectively as possible. When we analyze the interviews with this measurement, we will be able to establish developments and change in the stories that can be related to changes in well-being and quality of the caring relationship. In this paper we will present a multidimensional method for the narrative analysis of the quality of life stories and clarify its implicit theological dimensions. R.Ruard Ganzevoort & Thijs Tromp, Narrative competence and the meaning of life