
Health Communication, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 11
Published: Dec. 1, 2024
Research has shown a dramatic increase of eating disorders (EDs) among young people during disruptive times. Understanding the role communication in impeding or enacting resilience not only helps those with EDs develop better strategies for coping and changing their lives but can also inform effective interventions at familial, community, system levels. Guided by theory (CTR), our study explores how college students enacted through recalled interactions parents, friends, community members, health professionals COVID-19 pandemic. Semi-structured in-depth interviews 13 diagnosed self-identified revealed that intended as protective measures be perceived (dis)empowering, triggering (mal)adaptive resilience. The contributes to CTR expanding perspectives on triggers socially constructed risks aligned multiple contexts display communicatively constructing is complex, dynamic, power-laden, imbued dialectical tensions anticipatory-reactive self others.
Language: Английский