“I was literally just not myself”: How chronic pain changes multiple frames of identity

HL Voorhees - Health Communication, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Though experienced by more than 1 in 5 (50 million) American adults, chronic pain is
invisible, subjective, difficult to communicate, and often stigmatized. When faced with a …

“Accepting the Poem of Destiny”: Identity Reconstruction in a Chinese Online Depression Community

X Li, K Xu - Qualitative Health Research, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
As online health communities become important platforms for people with depression to
express themselves, digital narratives provide a lens for understanding their identity work …

Polyamory and Christianity: Navigating identity gaps and hegemonic discourses

JT Reese - Communication Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of the present study was to understand the identity negotiation of Christians
who practice polyamory. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eighteen …

Chronic health issues and entrepreneurship: Exploring the role of grit, bricolage and illness uncertainty on venture performance

M Ahsan, MA Gyensare, S Adomako… - International Small …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article investigates the relationship between grit, bricolage and venture performance in
a sample of 230 entrepreneurs with chronic diseases and physical disabilities. Building on …

Development and Initial Assessment of an Emotional Support Provision Training Intervention for Interpersonal Support Providers in the Context of Chronic Illness

CM Thompson, HL Voorhees… - Health …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study reports on the development and pilot testing of an emotional support provision
training intervention for interpersonal support providers to those with chronic illnesses …

“A Contradiction to Being a Teenage Girl”: Identity Gaps as Conceptualization Turning Points for Girl Activists

M Robertson - 2024 - search.proquest.com
This study employed a turning point analysis to document milestones that influence the
development of activist identities in young girls. All participants (N= 19), between the ages of …

Urgency of identity communication issues research between 1983 to 2023: Bibliometric analysis

LS Anggreni, N Prajarto, N Kurnia - Multidisciplinary Reviews, 2024 - malque.pub
Communication identity is incorporated into three cultural contexts (individual, communal
and public). Studies in this field have been around since the 90 s. Researchers conduct …

Relational Turbulence and Identity Gaps Amongst Committed Consensually Non-Monogamous Partners

RE Purtell - 2023 - search.proquest.com
The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate relational turbulence processes and test
Relational Turbulence Theory's (RTT) first five propositions in a sample of 528 committed …

An Application of the Communication Theory of Identity to Examine Disabled College Students' Disability Identity Gaps and Communication Predictor and Outcome …

CE Wood - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2020b) indicate that
61 million people in the United States have some sort of disability. Additionally, research …