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The emotional climate of care-giving in home care services
Author(s)	Eric Olsson, Bengt Ingvad
Journal title	Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 9, no 6, November 2001
Pages	pp 454-463
Keywords	Domiciliary services ; Personal relationships ; Emotions ; Attitude ; Qualitative Studies ; Sweden.
Annotation	The emotional aspects of the care-giving relationship in home care services are studied. The emotional climate of 222 recipients and their home-care workers in three typical Swedish municipalities, is described with the help of a scale of 85 adjectives. Results show the home-workers as more likely to experience the climate with a higher degree of emotionality. There is a symmetry between the parties in the perception of a negative climate. Workers' perceptions are principally influenced by the recipients' age and gender and their own ages. The emotional climate is constructed in a process between the parties, depending on their responses to each other. Tendencies to perceive a specific climate are strengthened or weakened by context variables, and this in turn changes the care-giving interaction. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-020109216 A
Classmark	N: DS: DL: DP: 3DP: 76P
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