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- Title
Integrating Illness Management Into Identity Verification Processes.
- Authors
Maietta, Justin T.
- Abstract
Individuals living with type 1 diabetes (T1D) or type 2 diabetes (T2D) can experience conflict between self-presentation and their symptoms or management regimens. In this article, I explain how these individuals might use their illness management techniques to aid in successfully self-presenting or having their identities verified. Interview respondents associate conflicts brought on by symptoms or management regimens with identity processes and report some instances when illness management enables them to successfully perform identities. Researchers have previously found ways that individuals work to renegotiate or preserve their identities by suppressing or hiding their illnesses. I additionally highlight instances where individuals embrace illness management to successfully perform identities, a process I call integrating illness management into the identity verification process. The importance of research on access to illness management tools and education is emphasized, as researchers aid individuals not only in maintaining good health but also being their best social selves.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TREATMENT of diabetes; ATTITUDE (Psychology); BLOOD sugar monitoring; CONFLICT (Psychology); DIABETES; EXPERIENCE; GROUP identity; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; RESEARCH funding; SELF-management (Psychology); TELEPHONES; QUALITATIVE research; PATIENTS' attitudes; MEDICAL coding; SOCIAL distancing; SYMPTOMS
- Publication
Qualitative Health Research, 2021, Vol 31, Issue 2, p254
- ISSN
1049-7323
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1177/1049732320966582