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    “I Am a Caregiver”: Sense-making and Identity Construction through Online Caregiving Narratives

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    Author
    Cooper, R. Amanda
    Affiliation
    Department of Communication, University of Arizona
    Issue Date
    2021-02-13
    
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    Routledge
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    Cooper, R. A. (2021). “I Am a Caregiver”: Sense-making and Identity Construction through Online Caregiving Narratives. Journal of Family Communication, 1-13.
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    Journal of Family Communication
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    © 2021 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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    Abstract
    The all-consuming role and responsibilities of providing care to an aging parent or spouse create identity disruption and stress. However, this stress may be resolved as family caregivers integrate the role of caregiver into their identity and construct an aspect of their identity around providing care (i.e., caregiver identity). Rooted in the retrospective heuristic of communicated narrative sense-making theory (CNSM), this paper investigates the identities family caregivers construct through online narratives about their caregiving experiences. Using thematic narrative analysis to analyze a corpus of 40 online narratives, this study yielded four distinct caregiver identities: the prisoner, which is defined by a sense of being trapped by the responsibility of caregiving; the crumbling caregiver, which focuses on extreme exhaustion in providing care; the companionate caregiver, which focuses on the relational aspects of providing care; and the redeemed caregiver, which is defined by growth through difficulty. © 2021 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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    18 month embargo; first published online 13 February 2021
    ISSN
    1526-7431
    EISSN
    1532-7698
    DOI
    10.1080/15267431.2021.1889554
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    Final accepted manuscript
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    10.1080/15267431.2021.1889554
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