Exploring blog narratives of parental loneliness: A thematic network analysis

Nowland, R.; Thomson, G.; Cross, L.; Whittaker, K.; Gregory, P.; Charles, J.M.; Day, C.

doi:10.1016/j.crbeha.2023.100137

Current Research in Behavioral Sciences

2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.crbeha.2023.100137

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Exploring blog narratives of parental loneliness: A thematic network analysis

R. Nowland,

G. Thomson,

L. Cross

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Disruption and Improvisation: Experiences of Loneliness for People With Chronic Illness

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Lewis,

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Chronic illness can disrupt many aspects of life, including identity, social relationships, and anticipated life trajectories. Despite significant scholarship on chronic illness, we know less about the ways in which chronic illness impacts feelings of loneliness and how people with chronic illness deal with loneliness. Drawing on concepts of biographical disruption and liminality and data from walking and photo-elicitation interviews with 14 people, we aimed to explore how people with chronic illness experience loneliness in their everyday lives. Tracing how past and present illness experiences are implicated in the lived experience of loneliness and the strategies people use to manage loneliness, our findings illustrated that being caught in a liminal state where participants struggled to maintain and adapt to a new normality in life with chronic illness was a central thread woven throughout their experience of loneliness. Although participants drew on their personal agency and adopted strategies to account for, manage, and limit disruptions from chronic illness and loneliness, they found that their strategies were not completely effective or satisfactory. Chronic illness and loneliness continue to be largely considered as an individual’s problem, limiting opportunities for people with chronic illness who experience loneliness to seek support and social connection. Our research highlighted that chronic illness and loneliness need to be acknowledged as both a personal and collective problem, with multi-level responses that involve individuals, communities, and society.

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Disruption and Improvisation: Experiences of Loneliness for People With Chronic Illness

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Lewis,

Raja

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Mental Health, Declining Physical Activity and Social Connection during Transitions into Fatherhood in the UK

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Smith

2024

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This paper addresses an under-explored area of sociologically oriented health research, namely, the mental health and physical activity (PA) experiences of new fathers. Drawing upon responses to an online qualitative survey from 32 fathers, aged 18 or over, and living in the UK, we show how the decline in these fathers’ overall PA was associated with poor mental health and the changing constraints that characterised their increasingly complex networks of interdependence. These constraints corresponded with shifts in fathers’ PA engagement from team sports towards individualised, flexible, and more recreationally oriented lifestyle activities like running and the gym. Fathers’ engagement in these activities appeared to exacerbate the complex feelings of guilt and isolation that they already encountered as new fathers. These experiences were simultaneously associated with feelings of shame associated with being insufficiently active and fearing judgement about their engagement in fathering responsibilities. The paper has important policy implications, highlighting the need for tailored support for new fathers in the perinatal period, and implications for practice, suggesting that co-produced community-based PA programmes are potentially effective settings for engaging new fathers in PA and promoting their mental health.

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Exploring blog narratives of parental loneliness: A thematic network analysis

Cited by 2 publications

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Disruption and Improvisation: Experiences of Loneliness for People With Chronic Illness

Disruption and Improvisation: Experiences of Loneliness for People With Chronic Illness

Mental Health, Declining Physical Activity and Social Connection during Transitions into Fatherhood in the UK

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