Boylstein Craig, Rittman Maude, Hinojosa Ramon
Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Center, North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Administration Center, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA.
Health Commun. 2007;21(3):279-87. doi: 10.1080/10410230701314945.
An illness event like stroke is generally believed to produce a biographical disruption in the individual, resulting in a reconstruction of one's self identity. One method of narrative reconstruction is the use of personal metaphor. Although previous research has illustrated a variety of illness metaphors, including that of war, there has been little research conducted on how these metaphors shift throughout a person's recovery period. The authors present data that indicate an intricate connection exists among changes in individuals' physical functioning, self-reported depression level, self-identity, and the metaphors they use to describe the stroke and stroke recovery experience. As the metaphor one uses to describe one's stroke experience shifts, so does one's sense of self. As one's self-identity changes, one's level of self-reported depression may also increase.
像中风这样的疾病事件通常被认为会给个体带来人生经历的中断，从而导致其自我身份的重构。叙事重构的一种方法是使用个人隐喻。尽管先前的研究已经阐明了各种疾病隐喻，包括战争隐喻，但对于这些隐喻在一个人的康复过程中是如何变化的，却鲜有研究。作者提供的数据表明，个体的身体功能变化、自我报告的抑郁水平、自我身份以及他们用来描述中风和中风康复经历的隐喻之间存在着复杂的联系。随着一个人用来描述中风经历的隐喻发生变化，其自我认知也会改变。随着一个人的自我身份发生变化，其自我报告的抑郁水平也可能会增加。
