TY - JOUR
T1 - Narrative meaning making and integration: Toward a better understanding of the way falling ill influences quality of life
AU - Hartog, Iris
AU - Scherer-Rath, Michael
AU - Kruizinga, Renske
AU - Netjes, Justine
AU - Henriques, José
AU - Nieuwkerk, Pythia
AU - Sprangers, Mirjam
AU - van Laarhoven, Hanneke
PY - 2020/5/1
Y1 - 2020/5/1
N2 - Falling seriously ill is often experienced as a life event that causes conflict with people's personal goals and expectations in life and evokes existential questions. This article presents a new humanities approach to the way people make meaning of such events and how this influences their quality of life. Incorporating theories on contingency, narrative identity, and quality of life, we developed a theoretical model entailing the concepts life event, worldview, ultimate life goals, experience of contingency, narrative meaning making, narrative integration, and quality of life. We formulate testable hypotheses and describe the self-report questionnaire that was developed based on the model
AB - Falling seriously ill is often experienced as a life event that causes conflict with people's personal goals and expectations in life and evokes existential questions. This article presents a new humanities approach to the way people make meaning of such events and how this influences their quality of life. Incorporating theories on contingency, narrative identity, and quality of life, we developed a theoretical model entailing the concepts life event, worldview, ultimate life goals, experience of contingency, narrative meaning making, narrative integration, and quality of life. We formulate testable hypotheses and describe the self-report questionnaire that was developed based on the model
KW - biographical disruption
KW - contingency
KW - interpretation
KW - life events
KW - life goals
KW - meaning making
KW - narrative integration
KW - quality of life
KW - worldview
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85042093197&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105317731823
DO - https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105317731823
M3 - Article
C2 - 28948830
SN - 1359-1053
VL - 25
SP - 738
EP - 754
JO - Journal of health psychology
JF - Journal of health psychology
IS - 6
ER -