Olsen Lise L, Bottorff Joan L, Raina Parminder, Frankish Jim
University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Glob Qual Nurs Res. 2015 Jan 21;2:2333393614565181. doi: 10.1177/2333393614565181. eCollection 2015 Jan-Dec.
The purpose of this study was to examine how mothers with young children who were living in low-income households used discursive strategies to explain their children's injury and near-miss events. In-person interviews were conducted with 17 mothers and a discourse analytic approach was used to analyze the data. Mothers used a variety of discursive strategies to explain injury events including minimizing the nature of events and expressing tensions between responsibility and resistance. Mothers also described challenges related to predicting children's behavior and dealing with competing demands. These discursive strategies reflected how societal expectations that mothers are held to in terms of keeping children safe conflicted at times with the constraints experienced by mothers living in economically challenging situations. The findings can be used to inform the design of injury prevention strategies that are sensitive to experiences of mothers of young children who are living with economic challenges.
本研究的目的是考察有年幼儿童的低收入家庭母亲如何运用话语策略来解释其子女的受伤及未遂事件。对17位母亲进行了面对面访谈，并采用话语分析方法对数据进行分析。母亲们运用了多种话语策略来解释受伤事件，包括淡化事件的性质以及表达责任与抗拒之间的矛盾。母亲们还描述了在预测孩子行为和应对相互冲突的需求方面所面临的挑战。这些话语策略反映出，社会期望母亲保障孩子安全，而这有时与经济困难处境下母亲所面临的限制相冲突。研究结果可用于为伤害预防策略的设计提供参考，这些策略应考虑到经济困难家庭中幼儿母亲的经历。
