2017
DOI: 10.4309/jgi.v0i36.3985
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The Social Construction of the Pathological Gambler's Identity and Its Relationship With Social Adaptation: Narratives From Members of Italian Gambling Anonymous and Gam-Anon Family Groups

Abstract: According to a socio-constructionist perspective, pathological gamblers' ''subjectivities'' emerge out of social networks and networks of meaning-making in which scientists, politicians, health services, and common people take an active part. We are interested in showing how a legitimated view (socio-cultural model) of problem gambling as a disease affects the way in which the members of Gamblers Anonymous (GA) self-groups understand and present their identity and talk about their problem and the help they hav… Show more

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“… 11 From a cultural and social constructionist perspective, the emphasis is here on the idea that the ways in which people experience a disease can be understood as an intimate part of the social system of meaning. 12 14 In the words of Gergen, 15 psychopathological categories are ‘socially connoted scripts placed within the sphere of social discourse, which some individuals identify with’ (p. 12). People do not make sense of their experience in isolation but through networks of social interaction, which in turn are rooted in particular social and cultural environments.…”
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“… 11 From a cultural and social constructionist perspective, the emphasis is here on the idea that the ways in which people experience a disease can be understood as an intimate part of the social system of meaning. 12 14 In the words of Gergen, 15 psychopathological categories are ‘socially connoted scripts placed within the sphere of social discourse, which some individuals identify with’ (p. 12). People do not make sense of their experience in isolation but through networks of social interaction, which in turn are rooted in particular social and cultural environments.…”
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confidence: 99%