Abstract:

The article concerns theoretical and methodological foundations of study of personality’s narrative competence from the perspective of psychological-hermeneutic approach. It shows content of the concepts «competence» and «narrative competence» of personality. Narrative competence is interpreted as a formation of personality’s skills to construct his own narratives and to identify and interpret narrative expressions of the addressee. The author assumes that the development of narrative competence leads to an increase of his ability to self-designing.

Keywords: narrative, personality, narrative competence, self-designing