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- Title
Uncertainty in Illness and the Future.
- Authors
Yarcheski, Adela
- Abstract
Using qualitative research methods, Strauss et al. (1984) have formulated a theoretical perspective on chronic illness. One conceptual category in this beginning theory, labeled managing and shaping the trajectory, describes the problems of living with the uncertain progression of the illness experienced by the chronically ill and their families. A better understanding of this experience and its consequences for those involved can be achieved through further theory development and quantitative research with select chronically ill populations. No studies has examined uncertainty in illness experienced by chronically ill adolescents and their parents and its effects on socialization outcomes in the youngsters. The empirical work by Mishel (1981, 1983b) allows for quantification of uncertainty in illness in both chronically ill adolescents and their parents, while a proposition in symbolic interaction theory (Stryker, 1964) provides a theoretical link for examining the interplay of their similar and dissimilar levels of uncertainty in illness and its effects on a socialization outcome in the youngsters. The socialization outcome of interest to this study is future time perspective. The purpose of this study was to analyze differences in length of future time perspective among chronically ill adolescents due to the interaction of four different combinations of the adolescents' and their parents' levels of uncertainty in illness.
- Subjects
UNCERTAINTY; TIME perspective; CHRONICALLY ill; ATTITUDE (Psychology)
- Publication
Western Journal of Nursing Research, 1988, Vol 10, Issue 4, p401
- ISSN
0193-9459
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1177/019394598801000404