2011, Number 4
The self-concept of the adulthood before presence of chronic illness. a social influence from the attribution theory
Almazán LNY, Benhumea LA, Ruiz SCE, Villa PD
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Language: Spanish
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Page: 121-135
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ABSTRACT
Chronic illness is that which usually has no cure and whose duration is unknown; being more common in adulthood, it is not exclusive of it. Based on the attribution theory we pretend to analyze the self-concept that seniors have generated in relation to the social representation that exists for what it is conceived as a chronic disease. We analyzed the content of the speech of a discussion group of six heterogeneous participants (two men and four women) with chronic diseases, between 57 and 69 years of age, complementing it with the IBSA (Image-Based Semantic Analysis) technique. The results indicate that the selfconcept the seniors constructed was built socially in a dual process, it is interpreted as a social fracture that was built in a personal construction as a result of insulation that is wrapped with family abandonment; this feeling of loneliness is constructed through a prejudice that establishes chronic disease as a synonymous of aging.