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Complex negotiations: The lived experience of enacting agency after a stroke
- Source :
- Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy. 22:43-53
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2014.
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Abstract
- This qualitative, longitudinal, descriptive study aimed to understand the lived experience of enacting agency, and to describe the phenomenon of agency and the meaning structure of the phenomenon during the year after a stroke. Agency is defined as making things happen in everyday life through one's actions.This study followed six persons (three men and three women, ages 63 to 89), interviewed on four separate occasions. Interview data were analysed using the Empirical Phenomenological Psychological method.The main findings showed that the participants experienced enacting agency in their everyday lives after stroke as negotiating different characteristics over a span of time, a range of difficulty, and in a number of activities, making these negotiations complex. The four characteristics described how the participants made things happen in their everyday lives through managing their disrupted bodies, taking into account their past and envisioning their futures, dealing with the world outside themselves, and negotiating through internal dialogues.This empirical evidence regarding negotiations challenges traditional definitions of agency and a new definition of agency is proposed. Understanding clients' complex negotiations and offering innovative solutions to train in real-life situations may help in the process of enabling occupations after a stroke.
- Subjects :
- Male
Occupational therapy
medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject
Self-concept
medicine.disease_cause
Occupational Therapy
Phenomenon
Activities of Daily Living
medicine
Humans
Psychological stress
Longitudinal Studies
Occupational science
Aged
media_common
Aged, 80 and over
Negotiating
Lived experience
Stroke Rehabilitation
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Gender studies
Middle Aged
Self Concept
Stroke
Negotiation
Female
Descriptive research
Psychology
Social psychology
Stress, Psychological
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16512014 and 11038128
- Volume :
- 22
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....033f26cedefe2087ded2678dccee1846