To Hope or to Know: Coping with Uncertainty and Ambivalence in Women's Magazine Breast Cancer Articles

摘要: Breast cancer is one of the most feared diseases in contemporary Western society. Popular women's magazines are important sources information about and orientation to disease. The current study applies problematic integration theory an interpretive analysis all breast articles appearing five top-circulating between 1997 2002. In so doing, illuminates two major challenges (uncertainty ambivalence) several imperfect approaches coping constructed this discourse (simplification, information-seeking/provision, affect management, trusting intuition, sustaining hope, metaphoric reframing). These results have clear practical implications highlight a largely untried direction for future research.