| Summary: | The aims of this phenomenological qualitative study to answer the
research question of "How the essence of the meaning and dynamics of emotional
experiences and coping mechanisms of elderly people who experience chronic
illness?". Elderly who suffer from chronic pain will experience a series of
dynamics that involves the emotions and coping behaviors in reducing or
overcoming suffering. Therefore, by knowing the meaning and essence of the
dynamics of emotional experiences and coping mechanisms of elderly people who
experience chronic illness, will help to understand about what makes older adults
have pain that lasts for quite a long time, in old age.
This study uses in-depth interviews and participant observation to collect
data from 6 subjects. Additional information can be from six family members and
one key person who knows about the subject. Selection of subjects is determined
by reference to community leaders who know the conditions subject to the criteria
of age 60 or older, have chronic illness of more than one year, and lets give
information through interviews. In conducting the research there are four
processes through which includes epoche, phenomenological reduction,
imaginative variation, and synthesis of meaning. The process of analysis and
includes data interpratasi braketing, horizonalizing, meaning units to obtain
textural descriptions, imaginative variation to obtain structural descriptions, and
combines textural and structural descriptions into a universal significance
representing the respondents as a whole. The validity of the results of research
using data triangulation.
The results showed that the dynamics of emotional experience and coping
mechanisms experienced by the subject goes through a series of stages of the
process leading to awareness of illness as a condition of receipt of the effects of
aging (aging). This is in accordance with their interpretation of old age as people
who should be able to ngrumangsani or receive of condition. The dynamics are
negative emotions that include anxiety, sadness, despair, and positive emotions
because of the factor of family support. Coping mechanisms focused subject
matter made at the beginning of an illness with inconsistent therapeutic action,
emotion focused coping further developed the denial, rationalization, and
repression, in line with the failure of therapy is carried out. There are factors that
affect, factors such as ignorance of the disease is experienced as new findings that
affect emotional experiences and coping mechanisms of elderly people who
experience chronic pain.
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