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- Title
Health as Submission and Social Responsibilities.
- Authors
Pitaloka, Dyah; Hsieh, Elaine
- Abstract
By examining women’s experiences with type II diabetes, we explore how illness can provide resources to construct meanings of everyday life in Javanese culture. We conducted in-depth interviews with 30 female participants in Central Java, Indonesia, and adopted grounded theory for data analysis. We identified four themes that diabetes serves as resources for women in Indonesia to (a) normalize suffering, (b) resist social control, (c) accept fate, and (d) validate faith. We concluded by noting three unique aspects of Javanese women’s illness management. First, through the performance of submission, our participants demonstrated spirituality and religiosity as essential elements of health. Second, diabetes empowers individuals in everyday suffering through two divergent processes: embracing submission and resisting control. Finally, diabetes provides opportunities for individuals within a social network to (re)negotiate social responsibilities. In summary, diabetes provides unique resources to empower our participants to obtain voices that they otherwise would not have had.
- Subjects
INDONESIA; WOMEN'S health; GROUNDED theory; HEALTH attitudes; INTERVIEWING; TYPE 2 diabetes; SOCIAL support; HEALTH literacy; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Qualitative Health Research, 2015, Vol 25, Issue 8, p1155
- ISSN
1049-7323
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1049732315577607