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The Lived Experience of Serenity: Using Parse’s Research Method

Barbara G. Kruse, RN; PhD

Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina

Parse’s research method was used to investigate the meaning of serenity for survivors of a life-threatening illness or traumatic event. Ten survivors of cancer told their stories of the meaning of serenity as they had lived it in their lives. Descriptions were aided by photographs chosen by each participant to represent the meaning of serenity for them. The structure of serenity was generated through the extraction-synthesis process. Four main concepts—steering yielding with the flow, savoring remembered visions of engaging surroundings, abiding with aloneness togetherness, and attesting to a loving presence—emerged and led to a theoretical structure of serenity from the human becoming perspective. Findings confirm serenity as a multidimensional process.

Key Words: human becoming • Parse’s research method • serenity

Nursing Science Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 2, 143-150 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/08943189922106576
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