"I'm not an anxious person": end-of-life care workers constructing positive psychological states.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental health is an issue of social and economic importance. Sociocultural and scholarly attention has largely focused on the negative aspects of mental health. That is, on mental disorders and illness and how they adversely impact our lives. In contrast, this paper forms part of a recent alternative empirical perspective in discourse-based research, by focusing on the positive aspects of mental health. In this article, we investigate how end-of-life care workers construct their positive psychological states.

Methods

Our data are 38 audio-recorded and transcribed semi-structured interviews with end-of-life care workers from Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. We utilized thematic analysis to identify common categorial strands across the data and discourse analysis t

SUBMITTER: Edmonds DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11316421 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature