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ABSTRACT
This work is based on data from a qualitative research study of multiply body modified individuals in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Participant narratives produced emergent findings of significant life stress, and traumatic events, in the lives of multiply body modified individual. The following publication provides original data regarding the domains of post-traumatic growth as expressed by multiply body modified individuals in their life narrative. Of the five domains (new paths, personal strength, appreciation, increased spirituality, and closer relationships) the most frequent that was reflected in their body modification was an increased sense of personal strength.
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Carolyn D. Keagy
Carolyn D. Keagy is currently a senior data analyst at Kaiser Permanente focusing on survival analysis and advanced quantitative methods with SAS and Teradata. She started her academic career with concurrently awarded bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Chicago with general honors. Her PhD in Sociology was awarded by the University of California San Francisco from the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her research interests are high risk behaviors, trauma, body modification, coping, mixed methods, socio-economic differences in health care delivery, and patient outcomes.