Search results for "EMOTION"

Doing gendered and (dis)embodied work. Care work in the context of medico-managerial welfare state

2013

Whether and how technology-driven managerial reforms affect the field of human service work is a timely question for social sciences. In an increasingly technology-assisted working-life, material conditions such as one’s age and gender may be losing their significance as signifiers of professional identity. Welfare service work is traditionally understood as feminine work that comprises of embodied, situational and social practices of care work. Over the past few decades, public management reforms have called for reassessment of welfare service workers’ occupational skills through practices of medico-managerial service management and occupational accountability. As a result, workers technic…

Family Firms strategies in times of crisis: a study of the influence of socio-emotional wealth and Top Management Team characteristics

2023

Las empresas familiares representan la mayor parte de la economía mundial, contribuyen a la generación de cerca del 70% del PIB a nivel global, crean el 60% de los puestos de trabajo en el mundo y es el tipo de empresa predominante en la mayoría de las economías desarrolladas, llegando a representar al 65% de las empresas existentes en el mundo. Concretamente en España representan el 89% del total de empresas existentes, proveen el 67% de los puestos de trabajo del país y contribuyen a la generación del 57% del PIB nacional. A pesar de la importancia de las empresas familiares en la economía mundial y de su importante papel en la sociedad, menos del 30% de las empresas alcanzan la segunda g…

2020

Abstract Challenge is a key motivation for videogame play. But what kind of challenge types videogames include, and which of them players prefer? This article helps to answer the above questions by developing and validating Videogame Challenge Inventory (CHA), a psychometrically sound measurement for investigating players’ challenge preferences in videogames. Based on a review of literature, we developed a 38-item version of CHA that was included in a social media user survey (N = 813). An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) revealed a latent structure of five challenge types: Physical, Analytical, Socioemotional, Insight, and Foresight. CHA was amended in another EFA with USA-based survey da…

Socioemotional Wealth and Networking in the Internationalisation of Family SMEs

2021

In internationalisation processes, international expansion exposes family SMEs to external networking and the risks such expansion entails, and perceived threats to their socioemotional wealth (SEW) might restrain their willingness to take these actions. However, very few studies measure SEW and associate it with internationalisation. Considering SEW preservation’s prominence in family SMEs and SMEs’ heavy dependence on networking during internationalisation, we hypothesise that SEW preservation has a negative association and networking has a positive association with the family SMEs’ degree of internationalisation (DOI). We reconstruct four SEW constructs that carry significance for family…

The temporal dimension in the understanding of maternal sensitivity in caregiver-infant interactions: The 'Early Mother-Child Interaction Coding Syst…

2021

Abstract Caregiver-child interaction is known to play a central role in children’s socioemotional development, yet the diversity of measures commonly used to evaluate it call into question the nature of the construct being assessed. Contingency within caregiver-child interactions has been identified as a key dyadic process that requires taking a temporal perspective to evaluating interactions. The Early Mother-Child Interaction Coding System is a psychometrically sound measure that sequentially code the flow of interactive and non-interactive behaviours within a caregiver-infant system. Its use of the framework of nonlinear dynamical systems (NDS) expands our understanding of contingent car…

Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries

2021

Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodologies, but these were conducted almost exclusively on participants from North America and Europe, resulting in limited generalizability. This project examined the tears-social support intentions effect and possible mediating and moderating variables in a fully pre-registered study across 7007 participants (24,886 ratings) and 41 countries spanning all populated continents. Participants were prese…

The formation of long-term unemployed young adults’ emotional capital during childhood : a Bourdieusian approach to emotional harm

2019

This article focuses on the long-term formation of unemployed young adults’ emotional capital and the development of emotional dispositions during childhood. We use Bourdieu’s work and the concept of emotional capital to draw attention to the emotional dynamics of family and peer relations during childhood. Emotional capital is related to parents’ emotional involvement and investment in the child’s well-being, and it encompasses emotional skills and assets that children can attain from family relations. The concept of emotional capital allows an examination of the child’s family and close environment, which shape the development of actors’ emotional inclinations and tendencies. Our data con…

Identity processes and quality of emotional autonomy: The contribution of two developmental tasks on middle-adolescents’ subjective well-being

2009

This study examined the concurrent and predictive relationships between identity-related processes of commitment and exploration, emotional autonomy quality-related constructs of separation and detachment, and subjective well-being, measured through life satisfaction. Four hundred and sixty-one middle-adolescents (227 boys, 234 girls) completed measures of identity, emotional autonomy quality, and satisfaction within different domains. Results showed concurrent and predictive positive relations between commitment, separation and satisfaction with self, and negative relations between exploration, detachment, and satisfaction with self. Results also showed that the relation between satisfacti…

Varhainen sosioemotionaalinen tuki yleisen tuen portaalla lastentarhanopettajien arvioimana

2015

Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli kuvata lastentarhanopettajien käsityksiä lasten varhai- sista sosioemotionaalisen tuen tarpeista sekä selvittää, millaisia varhaisia sosioemotionaalisen tuen menetelmiä lastentarhanopettajat käyttävät yleisen tuen portaalla. Kvalitatiivisen tutkimuksen aineistonkeruu toteutettiin eräässä keskisuomalaisessa kunnassa. Tutkimuksen kohderyhmänä oli kunnan päiväkodeissa työskentelevät lastentarhanopettajat. Aineisto kerättiin etnografisesti suuntautuneella, keskustelunomaisella, puolistrukturoidulla teemahaastattelulla. Aineiston analysoinnissa käytettiin teoriaohjaavaa sisällönanalyysia. Lastentarhanopettajien kokemusten perusteella varhaiset sosioemotionaalisen tu…

Music and speech prosody: a common rhythm

2013

Disorders of music and speech perception, known as amusia and aphasia, have traditionally been regarded as dissociated deficits based on studies of brain damaged patients. This has been taken as evidence that music and speech are perceived by largely separate and independent networks in the brain. However, recent studies of congenital amusia have broadened this view by showing that the deficit is associated with problems in perceiving speech prosody, especially intonation and emotional prosody. In the present study the association between the perception of music and speech prosody was investigated with healthy Finnish adults (n = 61) using an on-line music perception test including the Scal…