Psychological models for mediation in triadic relationships : Development of visual narrative of illness

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25590180
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Educational psychology
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: YAMADA YOKO 立命館大学, 衣笠総合研究機構, 教授 (20123341)
• Research Collaborator: SUGANAMI Kiyoharu ; MIURA Jiro
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ナラティヴ / 医療心理学 / ビジュアル / 三項関係 / 医学教育 / コミュニケーション / 糖尿病 / 腎臓病

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Our study, “Visual Images of My Illness,” achieved two goals. First, we examined how patients with diabetes and/or nephrosis visually represent the relationships between themselves and their illness in the past, the present, and the future. These patients need to control their lives and maintain their motivation to follow their medical treatments throughout their life-spans. Visual narratives can help us to understand their psychological experience of, and attitudes toward, their illness and their lives. Second, we proposed three types of mediation models of narrative relationships. Narrative psychology was based on the dialogical relationship between self and other. These mediation models were based on triadic relationships that incorporate a mediator between self and other. Though patients and the medical professions have different views and experiences of illness, they may communicate their perspectives by visual narratives.

Free Research Field

生涯発達心理学、ナラティヴ心理学