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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"emotional work"”.
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Emotional Work: A Psychological View
At work and in the family, people do emotional work to meet other people's emotional needs, improve their wellbeing, and maintain social harmony. Emotional work is unique and skilled work - it involves handling emotions and social relationships and its product is the change of feeling in others. ¶ …
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Emotional Work: A Psychological View
At work and in the family, people do emotional work to meet other people's emotional needs, improve their wellbeing, and maintain social harmony. Emotional work is unique and skilled work - it involves handling emotions and social relationships and its product is the change of feeling in others. ¶ …
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Validation of the Emotional Work Requirements Scale
The Emotional Work Requirements Scale was developed to be a job or organizational analytic tool in the study of emotional labor. A composite data set consisting of four separate samples was analyzed. A factor analysis of the scale determined five sub-scales. The sub-scales did not distinguish …
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Predictors of Preferences For Performance of Emotional Work
… as predictors of preferences for conforming with emotional display rules. It was hypothesized that extraversion, neuroticism, experiential openness and self-monitoring will relate to individuals' comfort in displaying emotional requirements. It was also hypothesized that the socialization …
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Teacher's emotional work, support for their wellbeing and the role of compassion: A critical exploration
… research aimed to critically explore teachers’ emotional work, support for their wellbeing and the potential role of compassion to support the wellbeing of teachers in three special schools that support children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs (SEMH). Three special schools in the …
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The Other Side of Girls Gone Wild: The Emotional Labor of College Women's Sexual Decision-Making
… research concerns the process of college women's emotional labor in sexual decision-making and how women talk about their sexual decisions via their negotiation of dominant social discourses. The study seeks to determine how the college experience nurtures women's sexual subjectivity; how it …
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Identity Formation and the Development of Self in Early Career Teachers
… prepare teachers and sustain teachers in their work. The personal beliefs, attitudes and emotions of teachers often determine the decisions that teachers make in their classrooms. Increasingly, educational researchers have found that effective teachers are aware of this dimension. The aim of …
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The Art of Racing: Cracking the Puzzle of Programs Supporting Startup Creation
… startup competitions, offers a conceptual framework to help in understanding this phenomenon, and provides a research agenda that calls for future empirical studies. The chapter attempts to offer a comprehensive definition of the competitions through the identified aggregate dimensions: …
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It’s like being on a tight-rope : an ethnography of the working lives of professional stand-up comedians in the UK
… the literature by ethnographically studying the working lives and lived experiences of professional stand-up comedians on the UK live comedy circuit. Ethnographic fieldwork took place over eight months and was specifically concentrated in the busiest part of the week for performers, principally …
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The lived experience of therapists working with suicidal clients in Ghana: a heuristic study
… as yet has been carried out on the therapist's work with suicidal clients. This heuristic (qualitative) study was designed to explore the lived experience of seven psychotherapists working with suicidal clients in Ghana. As a heuristic study, I was both the researcher and a research participant. …
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Experiences of the foster care process in the Republic of Ireland: retrospective accounts from biological children of foster carers
… and often did not approach fostering social workers as they did not have a meaningful relationship in order to discuss their concerns. The findings also demonstrate that birth children undertake a lot of emotional work in supporting their parents, birth siblings and foster siblings. Despite …
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Labour of love: the impact of emotional labour on domestic abuse support workers
… there is not anything written about the support workers and the effect the work has on their well-being, they are somewhat invisible.<br/><br/>Therefore, my aim is to fill the gap between Hochschild’s theory of emotional labour and the effect this has on domestic abuse support workers (1983). …
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Stretching the Circle: First-Generation College Students Navigate Their Educational Journey
… and the Community Cultural Wealth Model as frameworks to analyze the educational experiences of first-generation college students (Bourdieu, 1977; Crenshaw, 1991; Yosso, 2005). This study reveals the challenges participants faced in their journey to college and upon their arrival. My work …
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Trafficking in the Spaces of Poverty: Reading the Post-War Wars of American Literature and Culture
… I argue that writers who are typically read as working against various forms of oppression actually enforce a neoliberal commonsense, performing the emotional work of absolving middle and upper class guilt when faced with the persistence of inequality. Managing the poor through these discourses …
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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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LEADING CURRICULAR CHANGE: THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL IN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS
… the implementation of the CCSS, and revealed the emotional work associated with their reflective practice. Findings are relevant to training of instructional leaders and serve to inform future research involving the ways principals interact with curriculum and instruction as it relates to …
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An assessment of how well social movement theory explains the emergence and development of Rape Crisis Cape Town
… and organisational culture after 1992? This work uses interviews, documentary evidence, and secondary sources to build a picture of Rape Crisis's development and the issues it confronted. The thesis covers the period 1976 to 2000. The main chapters consider a phase of Rape Crisis's …
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Dyscluded': Women's experiences of mothering autistic children as described in their stories'
… of sociocultural expectations on mothers and the emotional care work expected of them. <br><br>Thirty mothers of autistic children participated in lightly structured, research conversations to share stories of their everyday experiences. Using an auto/biographical approach enabled me to use my own …
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Trait emotional intelligence: a strategy for managing nurses’ affective wellbeing at work
… because of ill health, anxiety and stress at work. Aims: To explore nurses’ perceptions of their wellbeing and discuss related issues such as their work environment, their jobs and their roles in the team, and to inform and shape the development of an intervention to help nurses develop …
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"""Stories from our people"": immigrants, brokers, and literacy as affinity"
… my study proposes that literacy brokers’ emotional work of mediation must be further explored. I argue that literacy brokers perform mediation through what I call “literacy as affinity.” “Literacy as affinity,” an emotional discursive repertoire, comprises empathetic language, personal …