"He's Doing Fine": Hope Work and Emotional Threat Management Among Families of Seriously Ill Children
"He's Doing Fine": Hope Work and Emotional Threat Management Among Families of Seriously Ill Children
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DOI：
10.1002/symb.195
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发表时间：
2015-11-01
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Gengler, Amanda M.
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作者：
Gengler, Amanda M.
在这项研究中，我研究了人们在情绪紧张的情况下如何战略性地构建社会互动，以保护脆弱的情绪状态。数据来自对18个在一所精英大学研究医院接受危及生命的疾病治疗的儿童家庭的采访和观察。我展示了家庭是如何通过先发制人和重组与朋友和家庭成员的社会互动以及修剪社交网络来抵御情感威胁，从而保持对孩子康复的希望。这些努力使家庭能够尽量减少相互的义务，避免遇到悲观的反思性评价，这种评价可能会引发导致恐惧和焦虑状态的情感捷径。类似的重建社会互动和社交网络的努力在那些努力在各种具有挑战性的环境中保持脆弱的情绪状态的人中可能很常见。
In this study, I examine how people in emotionally fraught circumstances strategically structure social interactions in order to protect fragile emotional states. Data come from interviews and observations with 18 families of children being treated for life-threatening conditions at an elite university research hospital. I show how families worked to ward off emotional threats to their ability to maintain hope that their children would recover by preempting and restructuring social interactions with friends and family members and pruning social networks. These efforts allowed families to minimize reciprocal obligations and avoid encountering pessimistic reflected appraisals that might trigger emotional shortcuts leading to states of fear and anxiety. Similar efforts to reconstruct social interactions and social networks may be common among those working to maintain fragile emotional states in a variety of challenging circumstances.