Storytelling and Advice: Constructing the Lived Experience of Eating Disorders Online

Online peer support groups encourage individuals to tell their stories and to find validation and emotional comfort when reading about the stories of others. Coincidently, lived experiences are the kind of knowledge applied to solicit and to deliver peer advice. This study examines the relationship...

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Autor: Figueras, Carolina
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Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Trastorns del metabolisme
Storytelling
Disorders of metabolism
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spelling Storytelling and Advice: Constructing the Lived Experience of Eating Disorders OnlineFigueras, CarolinaNarració de contesTrastorns del metabolismeStorytellingDisorders of metabolismOnline peer support groups encourage individuals to tell their stories and to find validation and emotional comfort when reading about the stories of others. Coincidently, lived experiences are the kind of knowledge applied to solicit and to deliver peer advice. This study examines the relationship between storytelling and advice in an English speaking online forum that provides support for those with an eating disorder (ED). The results revealed a range of different types of narratives within the data, from more elaborate testimonials of the ED and the process of recovery to brief personal passages responding to the first poster. The Labovian narrative structure appeared in a number of the first stories, whereas two main configurations, contingent upon the kind of response offered, emerged in second stories: parallel assessments (or snapshots) and success stories. Parallel assessments constituted self-centred stories and did not include any advice provision. Success stories, instead, became an essential component of the advice-giving act since they were remedial. The solution proposed by responders to the problem posed by the first poster was organized either to offer tips (that is, a series of practical recommendations to address a specific ED or recovery issue) or to deliver thoughtful advice through a resolutive story that introduced the state of recovery as a real possibility. Both parallel assessments and resolutive stories included contrasting resonances in relation to the first story. Resolutive stories encompassed resonating elements whose meanings were transformed and (re)signified from the positioning of a subject moving towards recovery. However, snapshots echoed specific key expressions from the initiating post. The goal was to display alignment with the first teller by describing a similar I-perspective experience. Taken together, the individual small stories contributed to the coconstruction of a multiple-lived story with regard to the ED in the online community.Jagiellonian University2025202520232025info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion25 p.application/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/217590http://hdl.handle.net/2445/217590reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.23.005.17754STUDIA LINGUISTICA UNIVERSITATIS IAGELLONICAE CRACOVIENSIS, 2023, vol. 140, num.1, p. 95-119https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.23.005.17754cc-by (c) Figueras, Carolina, 2023http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:2445/2175902026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Storytelling and Advice: Constructing the Lived Experience of Eating Disorders Online
title Storytelling and Advice: Constructing the Lived Experience of Eating Disorders Online
spellingShingle Storytelling and Advice: Constructing the Lived Experience of Eating Disorders Online
Figueras, Carolina
Narració de contes
Trastorns del metabolisme
Storytelling
Disorders of metabolism
title_short Storytelling and Advice: Constructing the Lived Experience of Eating Disorders Online
title_full Storytelling and Advice: Constructing the Lived Experience of Eating Disorders Online
title_fullStr Storytelling and Advice: Constructing the Lived Experience of Eating Disorders Online
title_full_unstemmed Storytelling and Advice: Constructing the Lived Experience of Eating Disorders Online
title_sort Storytelling and Advice: Constructing the Lived Experience of Eating Disorders Online
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Figueras, Carolina
author Figueras, Carolina
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Trastorns del metabolisme
Storytelling
Disorders of metabolism
topic Narració de contes
Trastorns del metabolisme
Storytelling
Disorders of metabolism
description Online peer support groups encourage individuals to tell their stories and to find validation and emotional comfort when reading about the stories of others. Coincidently, lived experiences are the kind of knowledge applied to solicit and to deliver peer advice. This study examines the relationship between storytelling and advice in an English speaking online forum that provides support for those with an eating disorder (ED). The results revealed a range of different types of narratives within the data, from more elaborate testimonials of the ED and the process of recovery to brief personal passages responding to the first poster. The Labovian narrative structure appeared in a number of the first stories, whereas two main configurations, contingent upon the kind of response offered, emerged in second stories: parallel assessments (or snapshots) and success stories. Parallel assessments constituted self-centred stories and did not include any advice provision. Success stories, instead, became an essential component of the advice-giving act since they were remedial. The solution proposed by responders to the problem posed by the first poster was organized either to offer tips (that is, a series of practical recommendations to address a specific ED or recovery issue) or to deliver thoughtful advice through a resolutive story that introduced the state of recovery as a real possibility. Both parallel assessments and resolutive stories included contrasting resonances in relation to the first story. Resolutive stories encompassed resonating elements whose meanings were transformed and (re)signified from the positioning of a subject moving towards recovery. However, snapshots echoed specific key expressions from the initiating post. The goal was to display alignment with the first teller by describing a similar I-perspective experience. Taken together, the individual small stories contributed to the coconstruction of a multiple-lived story with regard to the ED in the online community.
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