Concept Development of Family Resilience: A Study of Korean Families With a Chronically Ill Child

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This paper clarifies and delineates the concept of family resilience in the context of chronic childhood illness. Using a three-phase hybrid model of concept development (theoretical literature review, fieldwork interviews with 11 parents, and final analytical comparison), the authors identify a definition of family resilience as an enduring force that changes family functioning dynamics. Twenty-one attributes emerge across four dimensions, and the study relates resilience to family functioning, informing clinical interventions to strengthen resilience under stress.

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WOMEN, FAMILIES AND CHILDREN Concept development of family resilience: a study of Korean families with a chronically ill child Insook Lee RN, PhD Associate Professor, College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea Eun-Ok Lee RN, DNS Professor, College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea Hesook Suzie Kim RN, PhD Professor, College of Nursing, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA Young Sook Park RN, PhD Professor, College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea Misoon Song RN, PhD Professor, College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea Youn Hwan Park RN, PhD Lecturer, Seoul Women’s College of Nursing, Seoul, South Korea Submitted for publication: 10 February 2003 Accepted for publication: 22 July 2003 Correspondence: Misoon Song College of Nursing Seoul National University \#28 Yongon-Dong Chongno-Gu Seoul 110-799 South Korea Telephone: þ82 2 740 8825 [E-mail: msong@snu.ac.kr](E-mail: msong@snu.ac.kr) LEE I , LEE E-O , KIM HS , PARK YS , SONG M & PARK YH (2004) Journal of Clinical Nursing 13, 636–645 . Concept development of family resilience: a study of Korean families with a chronically ill child Aims. To clarify and delineate the concept of family resilience in the context of the chronic illness of a child. This study also investigated the concept of family resilience in relation to family functioning in order to compare and contrast family resilience and family functioning. Design and method. Three phases of the hybrid model of concept development were applied: theoretical, ﬁeldwork and ﬁnal analytical. In the theoretical phase, a working deﬁnition of family resilience was developed by a literature review. The ﬁeldwork phase comprised in-depth interviews with 11 parents with a chronically ill child, in the paediatric oncology unit of a university hospital in South Korea. The qualitative data obtained from the interviews were analysed to ﬁnd attributes of family resilience. The ﬁnal analytical phase compared and interpreted the ﬁndings from the theoretical and ﬁeldwork phases in order to clarify and reﬁne the concept of resilience. Results. The deﬁnition of family resilience was of an enduring force that leads a family to change its functioning dynamics in order to solve problems encountered. Twenty-one conceptual attributes of family resilience emerging from this study were differentiated into four dimensions: (i) intrinsic family characteristics, (ii) family member orientation related to family characteristics, (iii) responsiveness to stress and (iv) external orientation. 636 􀀁 2004 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Women, families and children Concept of family resilience Conclusions. Family resilience is an enduring force that leads a family to change its dynamics of functioning in order to solve problems associated with stresses encountered. This conceptualization led to the development of a model of fami

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