Discussion: Establishing a typology of coping responses

Abstract

The following chapter attempts a conceptualisation of the research findings which addresses relevant theoretical themes, fulfils the requirements of the research methodology and addresses the primary research questions. Continuing the analysis of the narratives using the documentary method the various dispositions, forms of identity work and orientations frameworks identified across the student narratives will be organised within a typology shedding further light on the various coping responses employed by the students in their efforts to deal with forms of personal and social violence encountered during their studies in Poland. In the process of selective coding and the comparison of narrative sequences within the student accounts, four main modes of responding to violence were identified: (1) ‘Storying’ Violence; (2) Identity transition (3) Social Appropriation (4) Avoidance and dispositional mobility.