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Angela L Palmer-Wackerly1, Jessie Coffey1, Lorey A Wheeler2
1Department of Communication Studies, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL).
Health Communication
|May 26, 2025
Summary
Rural immigrant Latinx adolescents use narrative mapping to make sense of their experiences and build resilience. This arts-based method revealed how they express challenges and aspirations through visual storytelling.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Arts-Based Research
Background:
- Rural immigrant Latinx adolescents face unique psychosocial challenges.
- Arts-based research offers novel approaches to understanding adolescent experiences.
- Communicated Narrative Sense-Making (CNSM) theory provides a framework for exploring resilience through storytelling.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore how rural immigrant Latinx adolescents use narrative mapping for sensemaking and coping.
- To investigate the application of translational storytelling within CNSM theory.
- To identify narrative resilience strategies employed by this demographic.
Main Methods:
- Employed narrative mapping, an arts-based method involving drawing and discussion.
- Engaged 20 Latinx adolescents (ages 15-18) from a rural Nebraskan community.
- Theoretically grounded in CNSM theory's translational storytelling heuristic.
Main Results:
- Adolescents utilized "linear journeys" and "affective snapshots" (including "comforting nature scenes" and "chaotic reflections") for sensemaking.
- Narrative resilience was communicated through stories of overcoming challenges, future aspirations, social reconnection, relaxation, and processing uncertainty.
- Reported benefits included coherence, perspective, empathy, relaxation, and autonomy; challenges involved initiation and disclosure.
Conclusions:
- Narrative mapping is an effective arts-based approach for rural immigrant Latinx adolescents to express experiences and foster resilience.
- The study supports CNSM theory and highlights the psychosocial strengths of Latinx youth.
- Findings advocate for culturally centered, strengths-based research using translational storytelling and arts-based methods.
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