Table 2 Core category: Examples of buffering and undermining features to well-being identified in data at different levels
From: Living on social assistance with chronic illness: Buffering and undermining features to well-being
Levels | Buffering features | Undermining features |
|---|---|---|
Individual level | Self-confident, social contacts, active orientation, feeling of being included in society | Destructive relations, traumatic life events, feeling hopelessness and frustration, isolation, health problems, family problems, feeling shame for receiving benefits |
Neighbourhood | Feeling safe, good facilities in neighbourhood, access to nature and free time recreation | Poor access to local services, poor local communications, neighbourhood segregation, dirty and noisy local environment |
Services | Provision of alternative activities, continuity in contacts, non-judgemental, being treated as an individual | Avoidance of services, bad experiences, making things worse, mistrust in communication, risk to get stuck in activities, short term perspective |
Socio-political level | Right and access to benefits, adequate benefit levels, access to child care, good employment situation in the country | Low income, unemployment, immigrant background/new in Sweden |