Positive affect as coercive strategy: conditionality, activation and the role of psychology in UK government workfare programmes
Positive affect as coercive strategy: conditionality, activation and the role of psychology in UK government workfare programmes
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DOI：
10.1136/medhum-2014-010622
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发表时间：
2015-06-01
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1.2
通讯作者：
Stearn, Robert
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作者：
Friedli, Lynne;Stearn, Robert
在许多发达经济体，获得社会保障福利的资格取决于失业和就业不足的人是否开展范围不断扩大的求职、培训和工作准备活动，以及强制性无偿劳动（工作福利）。这些活动越来越多地包括旨在改变态度、信仰和个性的干预措施，特别是通过施加积极影响。劳动上的自我，以达到所谓的提高就业能力的特点，现在被广泛提倡。这项工作和关于它的论述是许多索赔人经历的核心，并促成了失业是个人失败和心理缺陷的证据这一观点。在提供工作福利功能中使用心理学来消除社会和经济不平等的经历和影响，构建一种将失业与心理缺陷联系起来的心理学理想，从而授权将国家和国家合同的监视扩展到心理特征。本文描述了许多心理政策干预的强制性和惩罚性，并考虑了心理政策对弱势群体和被排斥群体的影响，这些群体是心理政策的主要目标。为了探索工作福利中心理强迫的程度，我们借鉴了经历工作福利的人的个人证词、政策分析和反对工作福利运动的社交媒体记录。这是一个在学术文献中很少受到关注的领域，但它提出了伦理和专业责任问题，并挑战医学人文领域更批判性地反思其与心理学的关系。
Eligibility for social security benefits in many advanced economies is dependent on unemployed and underemployed people carrying out an expanding range of job search, training and work preparation activities, as well as mandatory unpaid labour (workfare). Increasingly, these activities include interventions intended to modify attitudes, beliefs and personality, notably through the imposition of positive affect. Labour on the self in order to achieve characteristics said to increase employability is now widely promoted. This work and the discourse on it are central to the experience of many claimants and contribute to the view that unemployment is evidence of both personal failure and psychological deficit. The use of psychology in the delivery of workfare functions to erase the experience and effects of social and economic inequalities, to construct a psychological ideal that links unemployment to psychological deficit, and so to authorise the extension of stateand state-contractedsurveillance to psychological characteristics. This paper describes the coercive and punitive nature of many psycho-policy interventions and considers the implications of psycho-policy for the disadvantaged and excluded populations who are its primary targets. We draw on personal testimonies of people experiencing workfare, policy analysis and social media records of campaigns opposed to workfare in order to explore the extent of psycho-compulsion in workfare. This is an area that has received little attention in the academic literature but that raises issues of ethics and professional accountability and challenges the field of medical humanities to reflect more critically on its relationship to psychology.