Alternative Constructions of Partner Relationships in Chronic Illness : a Qualitative Study Exploring Concurrent Relationships
- 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.
Author: | Michaela SorberORCiD, Christiane Knecht, Michael MengORCiD, Andreas BüscherORCiDGND, Wilfried SchneppORCiD |
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Title (English): | Alternative Constructions of Partner Relationships in Chronic Illness : a Qualitative Study Exploring Concurrent Relationships |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X211030729 |
ISSN: | 1552-5481 |
Parent Title (English): | Journal of family issues |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2021/10/07 |
electronic ID: | Zur Anzeige in scinos |
Release Date: | 2022/02/08 |
Tag: | chronic disease; concurrent relationships; couple; partner relationship constructions; spouses |
Page Number: | 25 |
Note: | Zugriff im Hochschulnetz |
Note: | 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 |
Faculties: | Fakultät WiSo |
DDC classes: | 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 610 Medizin, Gesundheit |
Review Status: | Veröffentlichte Fassung/Verlagsversion |