Author: Ho, Lai Peng; Goh, Esther C. L.
Title: How HIV patients construct liveable identities in a shame based culture: the case of Singapore Document date: 2017_6_22
ID: rws2twyo_16
Snippet: In the face of disrupted identity owing to HIV diagnosis, this paper examines how heterosexual people with HIV construct new identities and whether these constructed identities contribute to a sense of normality in managing their chronic conditions. The effort in reconstruction must be examined against the cultural backdrop. In Confucian culture, revelation of a failure or flaw in one's identity produces the experience of shame because one is lia.....
Document: In the face of disrupted identity owing to HIV diagnosis, this paper examines how heterosexual people with HIV construct new identities and whether these constructed identities contribute to a sense of normality in managing their chronic conditions. The effort in reconstruction must be examined against the cultural backdrop. In Confucian culture, revelation of a failure or flaw in one's identity produces the experience of shame because one is liable to lose group status when judged by the group as having failed to fulfil a group requirement (Bedford & Hwang, 2003) . Hence, in Confucian-dominated Asian culture, reconstruction of the identity of a person with HIV is challenging.
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