A Qualitative Investigation of ADHD Experiences and Identity Construction among young women in the UK.

英国年轻女性多动症经历和身份建构的定性调查。

• 批准号: 2888000
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2888000
• 关键词: Qualitative; Investigation; ADHD; Experiences; Identity

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most prevalent neurobehavioral conditions globally and is a key interest of medical sociology. Nonetheless, despite increased interest in female analyses, ADHD is a diagnosis marked by significant gender biases (McDonnell, 2022). Existing social research on female ADHD has examined rates of diagnosis (Bergey et al., 2022) and theories of medicalisation (Conrad and Slodden, 2013), but there is yet to be substantial work on how ADHD shapes women's identity construction. With little sociological inquiry into the narratives and biographies of ADHD women, we lack understanding of how women make sense of their ADHD diagnosis, experience, and identity. Taking anintersectional feminist standpoint, this study aims to address this gap in ADHD studies through situating self and identity theory within young women's experiences of ADHD, exploring the 'male-coding' of the condition, participants' meanings of femininity, and 'neurodivergence' as biographical reinforcement or disruption (Bury, 1991). This study will use mixed qualitative methods to investigate a sample of 50women in the UK between the ages of 18 and 25, who have been diagnosed with ADHD or have begun the diagnostic process. Utilising both biographical narrative interviews and two-week diaries, analysed through dialogical and thematic narrativeanalysis, I aim to provide a holistic view of participant experiences, including the day-to-day navigation of ADHD, and identity construction over-time. Findings from this study lend themselves to inform gender-sensitive ADHD support in all sectors of society, as well as contributing new knowledge to feminist disability studies.

注意力缺陷多动障碍（ADHD）是全球最普遍的神经行为疾病之一，也是医学社会学的一个主要兴趣点。尽管如此，尽管人们对女性分析的兴趣日益浓厚，但多动症是一种带有明显性别偏见的诊断（McDonnell，2022）。现有的关于女性多动症的社会研究已经检验了诊断率（Bergey 等人，2022）和医疗化理论（Conrad 和 Slodden，2013），但关于多动症如何塑造女性的身份建构尚未开展实质性工作。由于对多动症女性的叙述和传记很少进行社会学调查，我们缺乏对女性如何理解她们多动症诊断、经历和身份的理解。采取交叉女权主义的立场，本研究旨在通过将自我和身份理论置于年轻女性 ADHD 经历中，探索这种情况的“男性编码”、参与者对女性气质的含义以及“神经分歧”，来解决 ADHD 研究中的这一空白。传记强化或破坏（Bury，1991）。这项研究将使用混合定性方法对英国 50 名年龄在 18 至 25 岁之间、已被诊断患有 ADHD 或已开始诊断过程的女性进行调查。利用传记叙事访谈和两周日记，通过对话和主题叙事分析进行分析，我的目标是提供参与者体验的整体视图，包括多动症的日常导航和随着时间的推移的身份构建。这项研究的结果有助于为社会各部门提供对性别敏感的多动症支持，并为女权主义残疾研究贡献新知识。