Prekonávanie prekážok pri dosahovaní osobných cieľov narušených zdravotným stavom: kvalitatívna štúdia

• Authors: Monika Hricová , Natália Sopková

Title variants

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Overcoming barriers to achieving personal goals impaired by health status: a qualitative study

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The purpose of the study was to examine the current general socio-psychological topic in the form of a question: how do people experience, react and overcome problems in achieving a personal goal, in real, concrete situational conditions. In this context, the authors chose a somatic disease - diabetes mellitus. Diabetes mellitus as a chronic disease accompanies patients throughout their lives. It is a natural source of goal-related obstacles. Six semi-structured interviews with people with diabetes were investigated using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Delving into the participantʼ world offers an in-depth view of the experience and whether and how somatic illness affects goal-oriented behavior and how (if at all) the importance is attached to strategies in overcoming possible daily obstacles associated with this illness. Four subthemes (difficulty to control situations, complications, frustration, persistence of obstacles) were identified, which pointed to the experience of an action crisis in diabetics. Coping strategies were also recorded, which were identified from the text by the following subthemes: acceptance, experimentation, planning and prevention, information and education, the influence of others, rumination, hope, and rationalization. Reflecting the awareness of relativity in the peoplesʼ perception of the diagnosis as an obstacle, the final third superordinate theme was formulated as an overall attitude towards the disorder, while this theme also highlights the importance of the aforementioned coping strategies.

Keywords

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action crisis; goals; obstacles; somatic disorder

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Československá psychologie (Czechoslovak Psychology)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 452-469
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

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Monika Hricová

• Československá psychologie, redakce, Psychologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Politických vězňů 7, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

author

Natália Sopková

• Československá psychologie, redakce, Psychologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Politických vězňů 7, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic