Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-19-2023

Journal Title

Health Communication

Volume Number

39

Issue Number

12

First Page

2940

Last Page

2949

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2023.2296187

Version

Post-print: the version of the article having undergone peer review but prior to being published

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC License

Disciplines

Communication

Abstract

Through a combination of autoethnographic reflections and oral history interviews with my parents, I explore the ways in which we enacted resilience throughout my father’s unexpected hospitalization, rehabilitation, and his subsequent years of recovery, both individually and communally. Using communication theory of resilience (CTR) as a framework, I identify the ways in which we engaged in the five processes outlined by Buzzanell (2010): crafting normalcy, emphasizing action while backgrounding negative feelings, affirming identity anchors, relying on communication networks, and employing alternative logics. I then propose three additional processes of enacting resilience that emerged from my family’s insights: enacting performative resilience, connecting to broader experience, and emphasizing perspective-taking. To conclude, I reflect on the value of these communicative processes and the combination of research practices I engaged in the paper, as well as the practical benefits of CTR and my additions to the theory.

Notes

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Health Communication on December 12, 2023, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2023.2296187

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