TY - JOUR
T1 - Emerging adults' lived experience of formative family stress
T2 - The family's lasting influence
AU - Valdez, Carmen R.
AU - Chavez, Tom
AU - Woulfe, Julie
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Support was received through a Clinical and Translational Science Award program through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (Grant UL1TR000427). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH. Funding for this project was also provided by the Wisconsin Partnership Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
PY - 2013/8
Y1 - 2013/8
N2 - In this article, we use a phenomenology framework to explore emerging adults' formative experiences of family stress. Fourteen college students participated in a qualitative interview about their experience of family stress. We analyzed the interviews using the empirical phenomenological psychology method. Participants described a variety of family stressors, including parental conflict and divorce, physical or mental illness, and emotional or sexual abuse by a family member. Two general types of parallel processes were essential to the experience of family stress for participants. First, the family stressor was experienced in shifts and progressions reflecting the young person's attempts to manage the stressor, and second, these shifts and progressions were interdependent with deeply personal psychological meanings of self, sociality, physical and emotional expression, agency, place, space, project, and discourse. We describe each of these parallel processes and their subprocesses, and conclude with implications for mental health practice and research.
AB - In this article, we use a phenomenology framework to explore emerging adults' formative experiences of family stress. Fourteen college students participated in a qualitative interview about their experience of family stress. We analyzed the interviews using the empirical phenomenological psychology method. Participants described a variety of family stressors, including parental conflict and divorce, physical or mental illness, and emotional or sexual abuse by a family member. Two general types of parallel processes were essential to the experience of family stress for participants. First, the family stressor was experienced in shifts and progressions reflecting the young person's attempts to manage the stressor, and second, these shifts and progressions were interdependent with deeply personal psychological meanings of self, sociality, physical and emotional expression, agency, place, space, project, and discourse. We describe each of these parallel processes and their subprocesses, and conclude with implications for mental health practice and research.
KW - families
KW - lived experience
KW - phenomenology
KW - stress / distress
KW - young adults
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U2 - 10.1177/1049732313494271
DO - 10.1177/1049732313494271
M3 - Article
C2 - 23771635
AN - SCOPUS:84880120538
SN - 1049-7323
VL - 23
SP - 1089
EP - 1102
JO - Qualitative Health Research
JF - Qualitative Health Research
IS - 8
ER -