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Managing feelings
— caregiving as emotion work | | Author(s) | Hazel MacRae |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 20, no 1, January 1998 |
| Pages | pp 137-160 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family care ; Emotions ; Stress. |
| Annotation | Using data obtained from interviews with family caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease, as well as the research findings of others, this article examines one dimension of caregiving as work - caregiving as emotion work. It shows that caregivers are heavily engaged in an extensive amount of intense emotion work, are aware of "feeling rules", and experience stress when they have failed to conform to them. Drawing upon symbolic interactionism, the analysis shows how failure in emotion management negatively affects the caregiver's sense of self. The study findings suggest that emotion work, in particular failure to manage feelings, may be an important but as yet not identified component of caregiver stress and burden. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980306405 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SJ: DL: QNH |
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