An Intergenerational Photo Exploration Of Self Care Actions In Self-Identifying Strong Black Women

<p>The current study sought to expand upon the Giscombé Superwoman Schema (2010) specifically exploring the role of vulnerability resistance and help obligation as potential barriers to changing comprehensive self-care health commitments in self-identifying Strong Black Women (SBW). The Superwoman Schema characteristics of vulnerability resistance and help obligation along with socio-economic factors of income, religious affiliation and marital status were assessed in the project using a visual-ethnography approach to Photo Voice methods and five intergenerational focus groups of SBW's born between 1946 and 2002. The collective self-care knowledge of these eighteen participants was analyzed using a participatory action research discussion framework to initiate the process of visualizing and verbalizing radical self-care changes through photos. Participants shared reactions to their own and others' photography to create a shared visual perspective of self-identifying Strong Black Women’s self-care barriers and strengths. Future research should include participant perceptions of Photo Voice methods, exhibition of participant self-care photography, and using Photo Voice as an inquiry method to examine socio-cultural and racial health disparities, stress management education and advocacy for self-identifying Strong Black women.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation - Public Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Community Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2021

Author dc:creator

• Goodar, Vanessa Patrice

Contributors dc:contributor

• Suzette Fromm-Reed, PhD
• Ericka Mingo, PhD
• Wytress Richardson, PhD

• Strong Black Woman
• cultural stereotypes
• self-care
• Photo Voice
• African American Studies
• American Popular Culture
• Community-Based Learning
• Community-Based Research
• Community Psychology
• Cultural History
• Health Psychology
• Leisure Studies
• Oral History
• Photography
• Race and Ethnicity
• Social History
• Social Psychology
• Sociology of Culture
• Women's History
• Women's Studies

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/diss/652

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.nl.edu:diss-1704