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标题：Living with a chronic disease: the role of maternal mediation in the meaning-making process of their children’s Type 1 Diabetes.
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作者：Marta Barone ; Livia Savarese ; Maria Francesca Freda 等
期刊名称：Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
印刷版ISSN：2282-1619
出版年度：2019
卷号：7
期号：3
DOI：10.6092/2282-1619/2019.7.2187
出版社：University of Messina
摘要：In this article we present a qualitatively-driven study aimed at exploring the meaning-making processes related to the maternal elaboration of their child’s diagnosis of chronic illness. In particular, we tried to examine a specific function of this process in mediating between the mothers’ own emotional experiences and the management of their children’s illness on a daily basis. We analyzed the narratives of 21 mothers of young patients with type one diabetes mellitus (T1D), aged between 6 and 17 years, collected through the “Sense of Grip Interview”. The whole narrative corpus was analyzed using the method developed by Auerbach and Silverstein, called Hypothesis-generating research. We identified four macro-processes in which the mediation function of the maternal meaning-making process is articulated: emotional regulation, collaboration in the therapeutic management, presentation of the disease and social sharing of the disease. The mediation function can act on two different levels: an intra-personal level, by fostering maternal elaboration of the disease; and an inter-personal level, by promoting the child’s meaning making process and the actions to manage their disease, in accordance with the developmental competencies acquired by their children.
关键词：Chronic disease; Children; Narrative analysis; Type 1 Diabetes; Mothers