Overcoming Obstacles by Enacting Resilience: How Queer Adolescents Respond to Being Estranged From Their Parents

Queer adolescents experience compounding complications especially when they are estranged from their parents. Findings from a sample of 40 estranged queer adolescents revealed four triggers, five resilience processes, and three co-occurring relationships between the triggers and processes. Based on...

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Published inCommunication research Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 335 - 361
Main Authors Scharp, Kristina M., Alvarez, Cimmiaron F., Wolfe, Brooke H., Lannutti, Pamela J., Bryant, Leah E.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.04.2024
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Communication theory
Public policy
Qualitative analysis
Resilience
LGBTQ
communication theory of resilience
adolescents
estrangement
thematic co-occurrence analysis
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Summary:Queer adolescents experience compounding complications especially when they are estranged from their parents. Findings from a sample of 40 estranged queer adolescents revealed four triggers, five resilience processes, and three co-occurring relationships between the triggers and processes. Based on these findings, we advance the communication theory of resilience by (a) illustrating resilience enactments with an adolescent population, (b) introducing a new facet of putting alternative logics to work, and (c) arguing how access to LGBTQ+ vocabulary and embeddedness within the LGBTQ+ community can facilitate more and less resilient enactments. We also extend a new qualitative method, thematic co-occurrence analysis, to illuminate thematic ubiquity and inverse relationships between themes. Practical applications for primary/secondary school curriculum, counselors, and public policy are discussed.
ISSN:0093-6502
1552-3810
DOI:10.1177/00936502221142175