Living Isolated: Coping With COVID-19-Visual Self-Narrative Research

This article employs Folkman and Lazarus's Transactional Model of Stress and Coping utilizing the visual self-narrative methodology to explore participant experiences of isolation, uncertainty, and risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fifty-seven participants engaged in visual self-narrative and...

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Published in:Visual communication quarterly 2022-04, Vol.29 (2), p.87-104
Main Authors: Kwesell, Allison, Rister, Alex, Nair, Shreya, Lin, Shuyang
Format: Article
Language:English
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COVID-19
Narratives
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Summary:This article employs Folkman and Lazarus's Transactional Model of Stress and Coping utilizing the visual self-narrative methodology to explore participant experiences of isolation, uncertainty, and risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fifty-seven participants engaged in visual self-narrative and photo-elicitation workshops to understand coping during the pandemic and to examine implications of reflection on photographs. Findings from 878 photographs revealed that participants coped with COVID-19 and changed social environments more emotionally than behaviorally, likely because infection risk may feel out of one's control. Interestingly, when participants reflected on their own visual self-narratives, emotional coping continued to be more salient; the majority of participants felt a sense of overwhelming thankfulness for children, family, self, and time to spend with each.
ISSN:1555-1393
1555-1407
DOI:10.1080/15551393.2022.2059760