Coping as a “Reality Construction”: On the Role of Attentive, Comparative, and Interpretative Processes in Coping with Cancer

2021 ◽  
pp. 146-165
Author(s):  
Ferring Dieter ◽  
Filipp Sigrun-Heide
Keyword(s):  
Reality Construction ◽  
Coping With Cancer

L'attaccamento al partner e a Dio come risorsa psicologica nel processo di adattamento alla malattia cancro

2009 ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
R. Cassibba ◽  
E. Costantino ◽  
S. Papagna ◽  
R. Montanaro ◽  
V. Mattioli
Keyword(s):  
Specific Aspect ◽  
Insecure Attachment ◽  
Attachment To God ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Coping With Cancer ◽  
Behavioral System ◽  
Fighting Spirit ◽  
Diagnosis Of Cancer ◽  
Relational Resources

- The diagnosis of cancer troubles people and their identity; it is a threat for their survival. To cope with cancer, people have to collect all their psychological and relational resources. The behavioral system of attachment is activated when people are in danger and it makes them looking for significant others who can be a "secure base" for them. This study investigates the role of specific adult attachment relationships, such as the bond with God and with the partner, on coping with cancer, hypothesizing that patients with a secure attachment with God or with the partner cope better and perceive less stress, respect to patients with an insecure attachment. The results show that the intensity of religious beliefs and security of attachment with God and with the partner are associated to some specific coping strategies to cancer. In particular, insecurity of attachment to God and a specific aspect of insecurity of attachment to the partner (fear of loss) are connected to a higher level of anxiety and a lower level of fighting spirit in coping with cancer. Only attachment to God is associated to a lower level of perceived stress.

Housewives as Kitchen Pharmacists

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Hsiang-lin Lei
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Health Benefits ◽  
General Idea ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
Coping With Cancer ◽  
The Family

By way of analyzing the health doctrine of Dr. Zhuang Shuqi 莊淑旂 (1920-2015), arguably the most popular author of traditional medicine in contemporary Taiwan, this paper discovers a surprisingly close alliance between gender role and traditional medicine, an alliance that she created on the basis of the allegedly traditional practice of viewing food as medicine. Instead of promoting the general idea that food has health benefits, Dr. Zhuang used her own personal tragedies to argue for the provocative idea that inappropriate intake of food is what causes people to fall victim to cancer. As each food functions like a double-edged sword, both the major cause of and a powerful tool for coping with cancer, preparing food in the kitchen, in her eyes, becomes comparable to handling effective and dangerous drugs in the “family pharmacy.” As the result, Dr. Zhuang urged housewives to identify themselves with the role of the “family pharmacist” and to take responsibility for the health of the whole Family.”

Narrative Account of the Arab Spring: Translations of Aljazeera and RT of the Egyptian and Syrian Uprisings as Case Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 819
Author(s):  
Haitham A. Aldreabi
Keyword(s):  
Arab Spring ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Reality Construction ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Arab Spring

the events of the Arab Spring attracted the attention of many scholars from various disciplines. However, the general trend of existing literature seems to ignore the different cultural representations within the Arab world leading for assumptions that the uprisings share similar outcomes and/or motivations. This article attempts to deconstruct the terms Arab Spring and Arab world through shedding light on two of the most influential uprisings that brought about social, economic, and political changes. To do so, it combines CDA and narrative theory to address the subject of the thematic nature of the subsequent media messages during the Egyptian and Syrian uprisings to investigate the process of meaning-making and the role of language in social reality construction. The purpose is to motivate researchers to address the largely ignored issue of the different representations in media and narratives.

scholarly journals Spousal support and changes in distress over time in couples coping with cancer: The role of personal control.

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meirav Dagan ◽  
Robbert Sanderman ◽  
Marike C. Schokker ◽  
Theo Wiggers ◽  
Peter C. Baas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spousal Support ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Coping With Cancer ◽  
Couples Coping ◽  
Over Time

scholarly journals The Role of the Spiritual Meaning System in Coping with Cancer

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Visser ◽  
Nicoline Uwland-Sikkema ◽  
Gerben J. Westerhof ◽  
Bert Garssen
Keyword(s):  
Adjustment Process ◽  
Curative Intent ◽  
Spiritual Meaning ◽  
Coping With Cancer ◽  
Meaning Systems ◽  
Stage Process ◽  
After Cancer ◽  
Positive Outlook ◽  
Meaning System

Spirituality can support the adjustment process of people with cancer, by forming a meaning system that supports understanding of the cause and implications of the experience and that provides coping strategies. The different ways in which spiritual meaning systems might fulfill these roles were examined among 20 people who were treated for cancer with curative intent. Narrative interviews were held on average 16 months after cancer diagnosis. The interviews were analyzed in a two-stage process, based on a holistic content approach. The first stage led to the identification of various roles and outcomes of the meaning system. The second stage involved a comparison of these roles and outcomes between previously defined types of meaning systems. The roles identified were discrepancy, legitimation and continuation. Legitimation was associated with the outcome of integration, whereas continuation was associated with an outcome of a positive outlook toward the future. Several differences were found between types of meaning systems, regarding the extent to which and ways in which these roles and outcomes occurred. This study underscores recommendations that healthcare professionals should be aware of the different ways in which the patient’s previous beliefs and experiences influence their current adaptation to serious life events.

scholarly journals How do we construct the Actor-Reality Perspective (ARP)?

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-112
Author(s):  
Annick Ancelin-Bourguignon
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Reality Construction ◽  
Arc Model

The communications presented in Pisa last year variously referred to the perspective which is the focus of the research group. Some of them used it as a global and loose perspective emphasizing the role of actors in constructing their own reality (ARP). Others relied on the Actor-Reality Construction (ARC) model, which investigates this construction in depth. Namely the ARC model postulates that the success of activities operating in a social context depends on the integration of four actor-constructed elements: facts, possibilities, values and communication (Nørreklit, 2011).

scholarly journals POLITICAL PROPAGANDA AS A MEANS OF OBTAINING, RETENTION AND USE OF POWER

2018 ◽  
pp. 30-37
Author(s):  
Dmytro Pavlov
Keyword(s):  
Social Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Propaganda ◽  
Reality Construction ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
The Face ◽  
Political Technology ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Rating Information

The main objective of the study is to investigate the peculiarities of political propaganda as an instrument of struggle for power and its effective use. Methodological basis of research is the constructivist approach, which allowed to consider propaganda as tools of political reality construction that is imposed on and assimilated social actors as institutsionalnaya objectified and public. The main result of the study is justification of the validity of the scientific thesis that political propaganda is a way to expansion of power. Obedience is a consequence of the propaganda that has gripped first groups, then masses and whole nations. Political propaganda makes people (in the face of its separate groups and representatives) to transfer its sovereign rights to exercise control of the nation-state. The actions of the authorities have meaning if they fall into the propaganda space. The propaganda space is instance of meanings, that promote certain interests and regulate behavioral responses of social subjects to various situations. Propaganda is a specific type of power. Propaganda power is the effectiveness and efficiency of the imposition of meanings to the public and groups which structure their political behavior. The mechanism of realization of political propaganda is to offer, strengthening and maintaining the meanings which allow any regime of power to operate effectively and successfully dominate. The important role of presupposition techniques of propaganda, which discreetly form the installation and determine the rating information that applies. The meanings, which propaganda disseminated, structured relationships that determine the dispositions, the capabilities, strategic vision, competencies and functions of political entities. Propaganda is an eternal engine of social and political change and the instance of the colonization of the future. No social and political technology does not work if does not refer to propaganda, distribution and attribution of meanings.

scholarly journals The Bank Lending Process: Accounting Information Role in Constructing Realities or Illusions

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Ruggeri ◽  
Antonio Leotta ◽  
Carmela Rizza
Keyword(s):  
Risk Evaluation ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Bank Lending ◽  
Soft Information ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
Reality Construction ◽  
Constructivist Perspective ◽  
Small Banks ◽  
Different Cultures

In the last decades the Bank and finance literature have paid a growing attention to the bank lending process. Considering the different kinds of information, such as hard and soft information, involved in the risk evaluation, contributions to the bank lending literature have highlighted that small banks are better able to collect and act on soft information than large banks. In the bank lending process the risk can be assessed differently among actors, so the communication plays an important role in creating the firm rating evaluation. This paper aims to understand how the accounting information, as a language, could facilitate a successful functioning reality construction or an illusionary one. Drawing on the pragmatic constructivist perspective, which assumes the reality construction as the integration between facts, values, possibilities and communication, we try to understand how the actors integrate their different calculative cultures (calculative idealism and calculative pragmatism) in the bank lending process. In doing so, we carry out two case studies at two small banks operating in the South of Italy. The empirical evidences show how the presence of multiple calculative cultures has entailed disagreement, slowing down the lending process. The integration of the two calculative cultures has been showed underlining their complementarities. This paper contributes to highlight the useful role of the pragmatic constructivist approach to study the problem of the co-presence of different cultures within an organization, explaining how an integration can occur. 

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