| Discrepant feeling rules and unscripted emotion work: women coping with termination for fetal anomaly. | |
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PMID: 20099935 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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The sociology of emotion is rapidly evolving and has implications for medical settings. Advancing medical technologies create new contexts for decision-making and emotional reaction that are framed by "feeling rules." Feeling rules guide not only behavior, but also how one believes one should feel, thereby causing one to attempt to bring one's authentic feelings into line with perceived feeling rules. Using qualitative data, the theoretical existence of feeling rules in pregnancy and prenatal testing is confirmed. Further examination extends this analysis: at times of technological development feeling rules are often discrepant, leaving patients with unscripted emotion work. Data from a study of women who interrupted anomalous pregnancies indicate that feeling rules are unclear when competing feeling rules are operating during times of societal and technological change. Because much of this occurs below the level of consciousness, medical and psychological services providers need to be aware of potential discrepancies in feeling rules and assist patients in identifying the salient feeling rules. Patients' struggles ease when they can recognize the discrepancies and assess their implications for decision-making and emotional response. |
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Authors:
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Judith L M McCoyd |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
Journal Detail:
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Title: The American journal of orthopsychiatry Volume: 79 ISSN: 1939-0025 ISO Abbreviation: Am J Orthopsychiatry Publication Date: 2009 Oct |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-01-26 Completed Date: 2010-04-05 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0400640 Medline TA: Am J Orthopsychiatry Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 441-51 Citation Subset: IM |
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(c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved. |
Affiliation:
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Rutgers University School of Social Work, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden, NJ 08102, USA. jmccoyd@ssw.rutgers.edu |
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Abortion, Legal
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psychology* Adaptation, Psychological* Adult Emotions* Female Fetus / abnormalities* Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Humans Middle Aged Pregnancy Psychological Theory Social Environment |
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