Understanding Gut Feelings: Transformations in Coping With Inflammatory Bowel Disease Among Young Adults
| Autor: | Michel Desjardins, Kathrina Mazurik, Kevin McGuigan-Scott, Jan Gelech, Kristy Lichtenwald, Kari Duerksen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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young adults
Coping (psychology) Canada media_common.quotation_subject Emotions Identity (social science) Inflammatory bowel disease Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine inflammatory bowel disease Adaptation Psychological medicine change Normalization (sociology) Humans Narrative 030212 general & internal medicine Young adult Research Articles identity media_common Retrospective Studies Narration 030504 nursing Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health medicine.disease Inflammatory Bowel Diseases coping Feeling 0305 other medical science Psychology qualitative research Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Qualitative Health Research |
| ISSN: | 1049-7323 |
| Popis: | Past studies have revealed a dizzying array of coping techniques employed by persons living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Unfortunately, research has provided little insight into when and why individuals adopt or abandon particular coping strategies. Using a retrospective narrative approach, we explored how participants made sense of changes in their approach to coping over time. Shifts in coping strategies were associated with particular illness experiences that wrought new understandings of IBD and novel identity challenges. They followed a common processual form and were marked by a movement away from techniques of purification, normalization, and banalization toward the development of a more communicative body. This was accompanied by notable shifts in identity work. Notably, participants moved from a preoccupation with maintaining continuity and sameness to permitting their extraordinary bodies to occupy a place in their public and personal identities. Implications of this process for theory and practice are discussed. |
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