Researching Distressing Topics: Emotional Reflexivity and Emotional Labor in the Secondary Analysis of Children and Young People's Narratives of Abuse
Researching Distressing Topics: Emotional Reflexivity and Emotional Labor in the Secondary Analysis of Children and Young People's Narratives of Abuse
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10.1177/2158244013490705
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2013-04-01
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Newall, Elinor
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作者：
Jackson, Sharon;Backett-Milburn, Kathryn;Newall, Elinor
探索敏感话题的定性研究人员可能会使自己陷入情绪困扰。因此，研究人员经常面临着在研究过程中保持情绪平衡的挑战。然而，关于困难情绪管理的讨论在研究实践中占据了边缘地位。除了极少数的例外情况，已发表的报告的重点都集中在对收集原始研究数据过程中出现的情绪现象的分析上。因此，相对而言，缺乏关于使用二级数据源的情感层面的对话。本文重点介绍了在二次分析过程中情绪进入研究过程的一些复杂方式，以及我们参与和管理愤怒、悲伤和恐惧等情绪状态的方式。情绪劳动和情绪反身性的概念被用来考虑我们“处理”和“处理”情绪的方式。在这样做的过程中，我们借鉴了我们的集体经验，在两个合作项目与苏格兰儿童热线进行了二次分析，对儿童的痛苦，担心，虐待和忽视的叙述。
Qualitative researchers who explore sensitive topics may expose themselves to emotional distress. Consequently, researchers are often faced with the challenge of maintaining emotional equilibrium during the research process. However, discussion on the management of difficult emotions has occupied a peripheral place within accounts of research practice. With rare exceptions, the focus of published accounts is concentrated on the analysis of the emotional phenomena that emerge during the collection of primary research data. Hence, there is a comparative absence of a dialogue around the emotional dimensions of working with secondary data sources. This article highlights some of the complex ways in which emotions enter the research process during secondary analysis, and the ways in which we engaged with and managed emotional states such as anger, sadness, and horror. The concepts of emotional labor and emotional reflexivity are used to consider the ways in which we "worked with" and "worked on" emotion. In doing so, we draw on our collective experiences of working on two collaborative projects with ChildLine Scotland in which a secondary analysis was conducted on children's narratives of distress, worry, abuse, and neglect.