Metalogue on Coping with Illness

Cases from Ecuador

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4640552
AutoresLaurie J Price (Department of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, autor correspondente)
Ano1992
Volume2
Fascículo2
Páginas135-158
Data de publicação1992-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/104973239200200203
OpenAlexW2141971389
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas31

The processes by which people cope with serious illness must be examined within family and sociocultural contexts. This article outlines a method for proceeding with such contextualized analysis. The method is illustrated with two case studies of family-based illness management in highland Ecuador. Both cases show the importance of culturally mediated, meaning-making responses in successful family adaptation to affliction and loss. Based on these field studies and on investigation of stress and coping in U.S. populations, two psychological mechanisms are proposed as central in constructive intrapsychic coping across cultures. These mechanisms are self-esteem and sense of participation in the outcome of the illness situation. Although this analysis concentrates on theory development by relating medical anthropology and health psychology, the case studies also have implications for health care delivery

Constructive · Developmental psychology · Health care · Meaning-making · Psychotherapist · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Sociology of health and illness · Anthropology · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Psychology · Resilience and Mental Health · Social Psychology