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Vol. 68 No. 4 (2024): Caring For Wellbeing

Articles and essays

Altruism and social solidarity as sources of wellbeing among participants in the “OnkoMarsz” project of the Onkorejs Foundation

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35757/KiS.2024.68.4.4
Submitted: March 10, 2024
Published: December 17, 2024

Abstract

The article analyses the activities of female participants in the OnkoMarsz project, an initiative of the “Onkorejs — Wybieram Życie” foundation. This project aims to support adaptation to oncological diseases within a social system that includes both cancer survivors and healthy individuals. The analyse is grounded in the social-ecological model of health and illness, which prioritises health as a process whose essence is the balance between health and illness. In this context, wellbeing is understood as the ability of OnkoMarsz participants to carry out life’s tasks despite the challenges posed by their illness. To explore this, in-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with project participants to determine the source of their wellbeing in sickness and in health. The findings reveal that the participants’ strategies for adapting to their disease are egoistically motivated (enjoying life here and now) and altruistically oriented (caring for others). Egoism, altruism and social solidarity intermingle and determine the wellbeing of the participants in both subjective and objective dimensions.

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