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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"emotion work"”.
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Fatherhood, masculinity and anger: men understanding emotion work in families
The objectives of this thesis are:1. To contribute to the contemporary agenda on research into fatherhood by focusing on the successes and difficulties of fathers being more involved in the intimate care of their children.2. To contribute to the understanding of how traditional discourses on …
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The experiences and emotion work of fathers in a neonatal unit
… of data collection. I apply ideas about emotion management and specifically Hochschild's concept of 4 emotion work' to inform my analysis. Thematic analysis of the data - fieldnotes, interview transcripts and completed questionnaires was undertaken This revealed a number of major thematic …
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Emotional Labor and Nursing Students: An Investigation of Nursing Students' Emotion Work
This study examined emotional labor as a potential source of stress for nursing students, as nursing students' performance of emotional labor may impact their working lives in important ways. Participants were 107 undergraduate and graduate nursing students enrolled in a large southeastern …
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Surviving and Thriving as a Teacher: Exploring the Emotional Management Struggles and Strategies of Teachers
… teachers face when they first encounter the emotion work in teaching. Furthermore, I explored the strategies they had to develop to healthily manage this work. In this way, teachers are not just surviving, but thriving, in their role. To achieve this, I used a combined methodology of an …
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An institutional study of a government-led green technology innovation scheme
… are instituted and how their reasoning and emotions impact discursive processes. There is however a gap in the exploration of emotive roles in processes of institutionalization, which pertain to the intersections between technology, the environment and society. <br/><br/>Theoretically, this …
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Midwives and mothers : reproductive identities and experiences
… of the midwife as a carer, in which the role of emotion is a key theme. This thesis illustrates how the analysis of gender identity shows the interconnectivity between midwifery, reproduction and motherhood, and emotion. It contributes to the understanding of the relationship between emotion, …
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A breath of fresh air: Breathing stories of the lived experiences of asthma and sporting embodiment
… their asthma and sporting identities? 3) How do emotional dimensions play a role in sportspeople’s asthma and sporting experiences? 4) How do perceptions of environment and illness shape one another by examining the relationship between the body, the self and environment? 5) What is the role of …
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Flowers, Interaction and Emotion
… practices. When Goffman’s dramaturgical framework (1959) is applied alongside Hochschild’s concept of emotion work (1979) and Gordon’s (1981) definition of sentiment, they can be identified as multifaceted institutionalised props, with interchangeable meaning, assisting in the management of a …
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Bisexual Relationships: Investigating the Impact of Attitudes Regarding Bisexuality on Relationship Satisfaction Among Female Same-Gender Couples
… factors, relationship formation, relational emotion work, and shared relational meaning. Couples additionally are influenced in each phase of the process by macrosystemic oppressions. Clinical implications to assist mental health professionals better serve these couples were determined.
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The hidden role: a focused ethnographic study of the nurse link tutor in higher education
… clinical placements. A guiding theoretical framework of symbolic interactionism used throughout this study contributed to an interpretation of the nurse link tutors' role from participants' perspectives and an understanding of the factors that affect and influence their role. This two phase study …
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Undergraduate representations of management and the possibilities of critical management education - the case of Portuguese management education.
Mann (2004: 208) identifies three components of emotional labour: 'The faking of emotion that is not felt and/or the hiding of emotion that is felt, and the performance of emotion management in order to meet expectations within a work environment. Nurses working in prison in England and Wales have …
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An examination of the emotional labour of nurses working in prison.
An Examination of the Emotional Labour of Nurses Working in Prison Mann (2004: 208) identifies three components of emotional labour: 'The faking of emotion that is not felt and/or the hiding of emotion that is felt, and the performance of emotion management in order to meet expectations within a …
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Soft skills for hard work: an exploration of the efficacy of the emotional literacy of practitioners working within the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) with high risk offenders
This study seeks to explore ways in which the emotional content of probation intervention with offenders is central to practitioner/offender relationships, but constitutes a discourse that has been largely silenced within an organisation that favours a business orientated model. Questions addressed …
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From alchemy to epistemology : intuition and private midwifery in Australia
… study was undertaken using a feminist framework. Ethical approval from UTS was sought and received prior to the study commencing. Twelve midwives in private practice were recruited using purposive and snowball sampling and advertisements were placed in two midwifery magazines. Data were …
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Living bereavement : an exploration of health care workers' responses to loss and grief in an NHS continuing care ward for older people
… his thesis is concerned with how care staff work with residents and their relatives in an NHS continuing care ward. It focuses on the care staff's perceptions and responses to the losses experience by the residents and their families in their care.T he research is rooted in a work based …
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The Midwife's coracle: a phenomenological study of midwives' experiences of emotionally supporting motherhood.
… review of the literature pertaining to the emotional health of women in their transition to motherhood was undertaken. It became clear that this is an emotional time for women where they are particularly at risk of becoming distressed (Drift 2004) and if women are emotionally distressed at …
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Queer enough? Contested terrains of identity deployment in the context of gay and lesbian public activism in Poland
… in Poland. I also broaden Bernstein's framework to include the discussion of emotion work as relevant to public LGBT activism in Poland. Later, I discuss how the emotions of protests allowed the activists to inscribe their efforts into the "revolutionary" narrative of the Polish Solidarity …
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The construction of shame and pride among sexual minority adolescents: A mixed-methods study
… from the general literature that these emotions are important to understanding identity development and well-being among sexual minority adolescents. However, little empirical research has been conducted to understand the influence these emotions have on this population. To better test …