Faculty of Education, 56783Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Chronic Illn. 2022 Dec;18(4):834-848. doi: 10.1177/17423953211039778. Epub 2021 Sep 8.
Women with breast cancer share their experiences and emotions about the illness on Instagram - a tool understudied when it comes to chronic illness. The paper characterizes the women's activities, and both online self-disclosure and social sharing of emotions concepts are used to help explain the women's practices.
Using qualitative conventional content analysis, four profiles of women are manually analysed, with posts as the unit of analysis ( = 811). Based on eleven subcategories, three broad analytical categories are introduced: self-disclosure of negative information (C1), self-disclosure of positive information (C2) and disclosure of information about other people (C3).
The women post narratives about suffering resulting from cancer, and the fears they experience. Also, the posts relate to positive emotions, joyful life events, self-acceptance, or self-affirmation. While writing, the women share information about people supporting them on their way to recovery.
The activity of women cannot be explained only by their online self-disclosure, where anonymity and lack of offline support are often emphasized. Women on Instagram are not anonymous and report on support by relatives and other people. Rimé's concept of social sharing of emotions is used to explain this phenomenon.
患有乳腺癌的女性在 Instagram 上分享她们对疾病的经历和感受 - 这是一个在慢性疾病研究中被低估的工具。本文描述了这些女性的活动，并使用在线自我表露和情绪的社会共享这两个概念来帮助解释这些女性的实践。
采用定性常规内容分析法，对四个女性资料进行手动分析，以帖子作为分析单位（ = 811）。基于十一个子类别，引入了三个广泛的分析类别：负面信息的自我表露（C1）、正面信息的自我表露（C2）和他人信息的披露（C3）。
这些女性发布了有关癌症导致的痛苦和她们所经历的恐惧的叙述。此外，帖子还涉及积极的情绪、欢乐的生活事件、自我接受或自我肯定。在写作过程中，这些女性分享了有关支持她们康复的人的信息。
女性的活动不能仅用她们的在线自我表露来解释，因为匿名性和缺乏线下支持往往是重点。在 Instagram 上的女性并不匿名，并报告亲戚和其他人的支持。Rimé 的情绪社会共享概念被用来解释这一现象。
