TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Sorber, Michaela
A1  - Knecht, Christiane
A1  - Meng, Michael
A1  - Büscher, Andreas
A1  - Schnepp, Wilfried
T1  - Alternative Constructions of Partner Relationships in Chronic Illness : a Qualitative Study Exploring Concurrent Relationships
JF  - Journal of family issues
N2  - Chronic illness can have a profound impact on couples’ relationships. In dealing with relational changes, new constructions and forms of relationships may arise. In the context of a larger grounded theory study on relational processes and practices in couples faced with chronic illness, this article focuses on concurrent relationships as an alternative form of relationship construction which embodies an additional relationship existing parallel to that of the couple confronted with chronic illness. Based on qualitative interviews with a subsample of five persons within the larger study, conditions for the development and characteristics of concurrent relationships are presented. From an individual and shared life questioned by chronic illness, concurrent relationships are formed in the attempt to be able to live on together in a new partner relationship and a continued care relationship. This can lead to new constructions of relationships, family life, and social relations in everyday life.
KW  - couple
KW  - spouses
KW  - partner relationship constructions
KW  - concurrent relationships
KW  - chronic disease
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 1552-5481
SS  - 1552-5481
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X211030729
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X211030729
N1  - Zugriff im Hochschulnetz
N1  - This study was conducted as a doctoral research within the cooperative research group “FamiLe – Family health in the lifecourse” at Witten/Herdecke University and the Osnabrück University of Applied
Sciences, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
SP  - 25
S1  - 25
ER  -