TY - JOUR
T1 - Discursive, Communal, and Individual Coping Strategies
T2 - How U.S. Adults Co-constructed Coping During Preliminary COVID-19 Stressors
AU - Zanin, Alaina C.
AU - Avalos, Brianna L.
AU - Town, Sophia
AU - Tracy, Sarah J.
AU - Stanley, B. Liahnna
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was funded through a research grant from the Transformation Project in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. The authors wish to recognize the support and contributions of Laura Martinez in the execution of this research.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This interpretive research study explores U.S. adults’ lived experiences during the beginning months of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Participants (N= 44), recruited from a convenience sample of U.S. adults, engaged in in-depth semi-structured interviews or focus groups. Through an iterative analysis of participants’ experiences and the theoretical model of communal coping (TMCC), the authors identified three convergent stressors (i.e., isolation, uncertainty, conflict) and several coping strategies related to participants’ stressor appraisal (i.e., individual or joint) and action orientation (i.e., individual or joint). Based on these findings, this study offers the novel theoretical concept of Discursive coping and proposes a model for how this perspective might be integrated with current theorizing about individual and communal coping. Implications for communal coping and discursive theory are discussed as well as practical recommendations for public health messaging.
AB - This interpretive research study explores U.S. adults’ lived experiences during the beginning months of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Participants (N= 44), recruited from a convenience sample of U.S. adults, engaged in in-depth semi-structured interviews or focus groups. Through an iterative analysis of participants’ experiences and the theoretical model of communal coping (TMCC), the authors identified three convergent stressors (i.e., isolation, uncertainty, conflict) and several coping strategies related to participants’ stressor appraisal (i.e., individual or joint) and action orientation (i.e., individual or joint). Based on these findings, this study offers the novel theoretical concept of Discursive coping and proposes a model for how this perspective might be integrated with current theorizing about individual and communal coping. Implications for communal coping and discursive theory are discussed as well as practical recommendations for public health messaging.
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U2 - 10.1080/10410236.2021.2010347
DO - 10.1080/10410236.2021.2010347
M3 - Article
C2 - 34898345
AN - SCOPUS:85121489166
SN - 1041-0236
VL - 38
SP - 1373
EP - 1387
JO - Health Communication
JF - Health Communication
IS - 7
ER -