Collective Stories of Exercise: Making Sense of Gym Experiences With Disabled Peers

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma V. Richardson ◽  
Brett Smith ◽  
Anthony Papathomas
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Group Interviews

Using a dialogical narrative approach, we explored how disabled people made sense of their gym experiences as part of a peer group. Interviews were conducted with 18 disabled people (10 men and 8 women, aged 23–60) who had experience exercising in the gym as part of a group. Data were rigorously analyzed using a dialogical narrative analysis. Within their peer group, participants crafted a collective story that they used to resist disablism in the gym. The dialogical components of the collective story functioned to (a) validate participants’ experiences of oppression in the gym, (b) forge an unspoken understanding with peers, (c) craft a more affirmative identity, and (d) instill a sense of empowerment in participants so that they can tell their own story. This study extends knowledge in the field of exercise and disability by showing that despite the oppression disabled people experienced in the gym, they can create a collective story, which is useful for helping to promote and sustain exercise in this space.

scholarly journals Mothering Practices in Cambodia

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-60
Author(s):  
Tale Steen-Johnsen ◽  
Nicole Dulieu ◽  
Ann Christin Eklund Nilsen
Keyword(s):  
Physical Discipline ◽  
Cultural Scripts ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Group Interviews

The physical disciplining of children is widespread globally. To work towards ending physical disciplining, we need to understand this practice’s local and contextual justifications. In this article, we explore Cambodian mothers’ rationale for the physical disciplining of their children, as we seek to address two questions: 1) How do Cambodian mothers perceive physical discipline?, and 2) How do they negotiate and justify physical disciplining practices? Based on 10 group interviews with mothers of small children, and in different communities in Cambodia, we found that the physical disciplining is a common practice used to correct behaviours considered unhelpful, impolite or disrespectful. However, there are ambivalent attitudes toward this. This suggests that physical discipline is not a static practice, but rather one that is constantly negotiated. We argue that Barbara Rogoff’s concept of cultural scripts for parenting is well suited for making sense of how physical discipline is justified among Cambodian mothers.

Making sense of humour among men in a weight-loss program: A dialogical narrative approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Timothy Budden ◽  
James A. Dimmock ◽  
Brett Smith ◽  
Michael Rosenberg ◽  
Mark R. Beauchamp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Weight Loss Program ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Making Sense

Holding Secrets While Living With Life-Threatening Illness: Normalizing Patients’ Decisions to Reveal or Conceal

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 655-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Bruce ◽  
Rosanne Beuthin ◽  
Laurene Sheilds ◽  
Anita Molzahn ◽  
Kara Schick-Makaroff
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Life Threatening Illness ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Normative Practice

Communicating openly and directly about illness comes easily for some patients, whereas for others fear of disclosure keeps them silent. In this article, we discuss findings about the role of keeping secrets regarding health and illness. These findings were part of a larger project on how people with life-threatening illnesses re-story their lives. A narrative approach drawing on Frank’s dialogical narrative analysis and Riesman’s inductive approach was used. Interviews were conducted with 32 participants from three populations: chronic kidney disease, HIV/AIDS, and cancer. Findings include case exemplars which suggest keeping secrets is a social practice that acts along continuums of connecting–isolating, protecting–harming, and empowering–imprisoning. Keeping secrets about illness is a normative practice that is negotiated with each encounter. Findings call health-care providers to rethink the role of secrets for patients by considering patient privilege, a person’s right to take the lead in revealing or concealing their health and illness experience.

scholarly journals Making sense of terrorism: a narrative approach to the study of violent events

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 561-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Homolar ◽  
Pablo A. Rodríguez-Merino
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Violent Events

scholarly journals “Just as Canadian as Anyone Else”? Experiences of Second-Class Citizenship and the Mental Health of Young Immigrant and Refugee Men in Canada

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla T. Hilario ◽  
John L. Oliffe ◽  
Josephine P. Wong ◽  
Annette J. Browne ◽  
Joy L. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Social ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Immigrant And Refugee

In recent years, the experiences of immigrant and refugee young men have drawn attention worldwide. Human-induced environmental disasters, local and global conflicts, and increasingly inequitable distributions of wealth have shaped transnational migration patterns. Canada is home to a large immigrant and refugee population, particularly in its urban areas, and supporting the mental health and well-being of these communities is of critical importance. The aim of this article is to report findings from a qualitative study on the social context of mental health among immigrant and refugee young men, with a focus on their migration and resettlement experiences. Informed by the conceptual lens of social context, a thematic narrative analysis approach was used to examine qualitative data from individual and group interviews with 33 young men (age 15 to 22 years) self-identified as immigrants or refugees and were living in Greater Vancouver, western Canada. Three thematic narratives were identified: a better life, living the (immigrant) dream, and starting again from way below. The narratives characterized the social context for immigrant and refugee young men and were connected by a central theme of negotiating second-class citizenship. Implications include the need for mental health frameworks that address marginalization and take into account the contexts and discourses that shape the mental health of immigrant and refugee populations in Canada and worldwide.

Generativity as a Positive Mental Health Outcome: The Long-term Impacts of Better Beginnings, Better Futures on Youth at Ages 18–19

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norah Love ◽  
Geoffrey Nelson ◽  
S. Mark Pancer ◽  
Colleen Loomis ◽  
Julian Hasford
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Outcome ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Positive Mental Health ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Long Term Outcomes ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Quasi Experimental

This study examined the long-term impacts of the Better Beginnings, Better Futures project, a universal, community-based prevention program. Generativity was studied as an indicator of positive mental health, using a narrative analysis of youths’ stories about turning points in their lives. A quasi-experimental design was used to compare youths aged 18–19 who participated in Better Beginnings when they were 4–8 (n = 62) and with youths from comparison communities who did not participate in Better Beginnings (n = 34). Significant differences between the 2 groups were found on 2 measures of generativity. The findings suggest the utility of adopting a narrative approach to evaluate the long-term outcomes of prevention programs for children and youth.

Meaning Reconstruction Process After Suicide

2016 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 360-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daisuke Kawashima ◽  
Kenji Kawano
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Japanese Woman ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Reconstruction Process ◽  
Meaning Reconstruction ◽  
Grieving Process ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Life Story Interview ◽  
Suicide Bereaved

Although Japan has a high suicide rate, there is insufficient research on the experiences of suicide-bereaved individuals. We investigated the qualitative aspects of the meaning reconstruction process after a loss to suicide. We conducted a life-story interview using open-ended questions with one middle-aged Japanese woman who lost her son to suicide. We used a narrative approach to transcribe and code the participant’s narratives for analysis. The analysis revealed three meaning groups that structured the participant’s reactions to the suicide: making sense of her son’s death and life, relationships with other people, and reconstruction of a bond with the deceased. The belief that death is not an eternal split and that there is a connection between the living and the deceased reduced the pain felt by our participant. Furthermore, the narratives worked as scaffolds in the meaning reconstruction process. We discuss our results in the light of cross-cultural differences in the grieving process.

scholarly journals The Causes of a Lack of Discipline among Secondary School Learners in Mauritius

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belle Louis Jinot
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Working Parents ◽  
Dysfunctional Family ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Set Up

AbstractA lack of learners’ discipline is a major school problem in secondary schools in Mauritius. The study aims at determining and examining the main causes of this problem in the context of Mauritius. Qualitative data were collected from learners, educators, principals and parents of four secondary schools by using focus group interviews and individual face-to-face interviews. By using content analysis, the study revealed that the causes of learners’ lack of discipline originate from the family (the parenting style, working parents, ineffective parental discipline and the dysfunctional family), the learners’ attitudes to education and schooling, the educators’ attitudes to their role of maintaining learner discipline, the principals’ lack of authority and leadership in managing learner discipline and the influence of peer group in the school setting. The study shows that all the stakeholders of the school community are responsible for the deterioration of learner discipline in secondary schools. It recommends that there should be a decentralisation of learner discipline strategies from the Ministry of Education to the secondary school principals who should be empowered to set up their institutional school discipline plan.

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