Narrative meaning making and integration: towards a better understanding of the way falling ill influences quality of life
Publication year
2017Author(s)
Number of pages
17 p.
Source
Journal of Health Psychology, (2017), pp. 1-17ISSN
Annotation
26 september 2017
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

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Organization
Leerstoel Empirische en praktische religiewetenschap
Journal title
Journal of Health Psychology
Languages used
English (eng)
Page start
p. 1
Page end
p. 17
Subject
Center for Religion and Contemporary Society (CRCS)Abstract
Falling seriously ill is often experienced as a life event that causes conflict with people’s personal goals and expectations in life and evokes existential questions. This article presents a new humanities approach to the way people make meaning of such events and how this influences their quality of life. Incorporating theories on contingency, narrative identity, and quality of life, we developed a theoretical model entailing the concepts life event, worldview, ultimate life goals, experience of contingency, narrative meaning making, narrative integration, and quality of life. We formulate testable hypotheses and describe the self-report questionnaire that was developed based on the model.
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