scholarly journals Emotional Geographies Experienced by an Indonesian Doctoral Student Pursuing her PhD in New Zealand during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (S3) ◽  
pp. 126-141
Author(s):  
Johanes Leonardi Taloko ◽  
Martin Surya Putra ◽  
Yenny Hartanto
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Doctoral Student ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Emotional Geography ◽  
Narrative Study ◽  
Emotional Geographies ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
And Coping

This narrative study explores the emotional experience of a female Indonesian pursuing her PhD in New Zealand when the COVID-19 pandemic hit this country. Garnered from the results of several virtual interviews with the participant, the data were analysed with the Hargreaves‟s emotional geography framework (2001) focusing on five different emotional dimensions: physical, sociocultural, moral, professional, and political. The findings showed that during the COVID-19 pandemic impacted PhD study, the participant experienced different emotions shaped by physical, sociocultural, moral, professional, and political factors while negotiating and coping with such emotions.

scholarly journals Exploring the Emotions of Single International Students in Hong Kong Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (S3) ◽  
pp. 91-107
Author(s):  
Suprihatin (Kehok) ◽  
Lilik Istiqomah ◽  
Rini Intansari Meilani ◽  
Khoiriyah
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
International Students ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Public University ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
Emotional Geography ◽  
Narrative Study ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
Insight Into

This narrative study aims to explore the emotional experiences of international students in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data in this study were garnered from the results of interviews with two single female students who were completing their doctoral studies at a public university in Hong Kong. We analyzed the interview data thematically with the Hargreaves’s emotional geography framework (2001a, 2001b). Findings showed that the COVID-19 pandemic affected the emotional experience of international students in terms of the dissertation guidance process, psychological mental state, relationships with family, finance, and spirituality. This empirical evidence may provide new insight into the role of emotionality in the completion of postgraduate studies during the uncertain and worrying pandemic.

scholarly journals The Emotional Geographies of Being Stranded Due to COVID-19: A Poetic Autoethnography of an International Doctoral Student

2021 ◽  
pp. 153270862110540
Author(s):  
Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
International Education ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Doctoral Student ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Identity Reconstruction ◽  
Critical Autoethnography ◽  
Emotional Geographies

This poetic critical autoethnography paper studies my own experiences of disrupted mobility as a Vietnamese doctoral student in New Zealand who was stuck in Vietnam. Through the lens of space and place, I investigate the issues of sense of belonging and sense of place that were reconfigured in different spaces. The article highlights my agency to reinforce and reconnect with my sense of belonging. As the article focuses on immobility, it challenges the mobility bias in international education scholarship, arguing that new forms of mobility can be produced out of immobility and that identity reconstruction can be enabled through respatialization.

scholarly journals 104 - Awareness of Dementia and Coping to Preserve Quality of Life: A Five-Year Longitudinal Narrative Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (S1) ◽  
pp. 8-8
Author(s):  
K. Thorsen ◽  
M. C. N. Dourado ◽  
A. Johannessen
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Adaptive Function ◽  
Narrative Study ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
The Moment ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Scientific Fields ◽  
Multidimensional Concept

AbstractBackground:Awareness of dementia is examined in different scientific fields as significant for assessment of diagnosis, and for treatment and adaptation to the disease. There are very few longitudinal studies of individual experiences of awareness among people with dementia, related to quality of life.Aim:To examine how younger people (< 65 years) with dementia (YOD) express awareness of the dementia and how, over time, they seem to handle awareness as a strategy to preserve quality of life.Method:A longitudinal qualitative study with individuals with YOD was performed with interviews every six months over five years for a maximum of ten interviews. The interviews were analysed by modified grounded theory.Findings:Awareness is a complex, multidimensional concept. Awareness of dementia is predisposed by personality, life history and established coping styles. The main coping styles – live in the moment, ignore the dementia, and make the best of it – seem to be rather consistent throughout the progression of the disease. Transitions in life situation, such as moving to a nursing home, may change the individual’s awareness of dementia.Conclusion:Unawareness of dementia may have an important adaptive function to preserve quality of life. To increase awareness must be approached with reflexivity and the utmost sensitivity.

Coping Through Emotional Approach: Emerging Evidence for the Utility of Processing and Expressing Emotions in Responding to Stressors

2009 ◽  
pp. 224-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette L. Stanton ◽  
Sarah J. Sullivan ◽  
Jennifer L. Austenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Emotional Processing ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Cognitive Appraisals ◽  
Clinical Intervention ◽  
Approach Coping ◽  
Core Components ◽  
Intervention Trials ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Emotional Approach

Emotional approach coping (EAC) is a construct encompassing the intentional use of emotional processing and emotional expression in efforts to manage adverse circumstances. The construct was developed in an attempt to reconcile a discrepancy between the empirical coping literature, in which an association between the use of emotion-focused coping and maladjustment often is reported, and literature in other areas describing the adaptive roles of emotional processing and expression. At least two significant limitations in the way emotion-focused coping has been operationalized help explain this discrepancy: widely disparate coping strategies, both approach-oriented and avoidance-oriented, are designated as emotion-focused coping in the literature, and some emotion-focused coping items in published measures are confounded with expressions of distress or self-deprecation. To address these problems in measurement, the EAC scale was developed. The measure includes two correlated but distinct subscales: Emotional Processing (i.e., attempts to acknowledge, explore, and understand emotions) and Emotional Expression (i.e., verbal and/or nonverbal efforts to communicate or symbolize emotional experience). Recent research using this psychometrically sound measure has provided evidence that EAC enhances adjustment to stressors including infertility, sexual assault, and breast cancer. The findings are not uniform, however, and further study of moderators such as the interpersonal context, the nature of the stressor, cognitive appraisals of the stressor, and individual differences is needed, along with additional study of mechanisms for the effects of EAC. Although emotional processing and expression are core components of many clinical approaches, specific measurement of EAC thus far has been limited to only a few clinical intervention trials. An understanding of who benefits from EAC in which contexts and how these benefits accrue will require continued integration of findings from stress and coping research, emotion science, and clinical studies.

Emotional geographies of irregular transmigrants’ journeys

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amalia Campos-Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
Central American ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Irregular Migrants ◽  
Emotional Dimension ◽  
Emotional Geographies ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
In Transit ◽  
Migratory Process ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract Migrants’ journeys involve geopolitical, corporeal, and emotional dimensions. Yet, emotions, which are fundamental to understand the migrant experience, are usually overlooked. Following the ‘emotional geographies’ approach, this article analyses the spatial contextualisation of the affective and emotional experiences of irregular migrants in transit. Cognitive mapping methodology is proposed as a means to address the spatial and subjective dimensions of migrants’ experiences. The ‘testimonial maps’ of two Central American transmigrants in Mexico are explored. The emotional geographies of irregular transmigration underscore the emotional turmoil associated with the irregular migratory process(es). They shed light to the familiar arrangements made before the journey, the natural landscape as part of the control, the encounters with agents of the state and criminal actors, the sanctuary places, the acquaintances and fortuitous friendships, the resilience and adaptability needed for endure the journey, and, beneath all this, the multi-emotional dimension of the journey: love, sorrow, shame, courage, anxiety, fear, trust, kindness, and hope.

scholarly journals ‘I felt uncomfortable because I know what it can be’: The emotional geographies and implicit activisms of reflexive practices for early childhood teachers

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Albin-Clark
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Peer Mentoring ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Emotional Geography ◽  
Emotional Geographies ◽  
Important Constituent

Reflexivity is recognized as an important constituent in how teachers build their professional knowledge and develop their pedagogical practice. However, less is known about the function that emotions play in the reflexive process and how these emotions can act as a catalyst to mobilize action that can create spaces for small activisms. Implicit activisms are here understood to involve small-scale gestures, such as speaking against discrimination, that can support notions of social justice. In this article, a reading of emotions is undertaken to explore how emotions such as discomfort can influence the speed and type of reaction for an early childhood specialist teacher during peer-to-peer mentoring. The concept of emotional geography is used to understand the way emotions relate to the distancing of others in one teacher’s professional life and mobilize small-scale activism that can be interpreted as politically motivated.

Expected and Unexpected Stressors in Major International Competition: Appraisal, Coping, and Performance

2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy R. Dugdale ◽  
Robert C. Eklund ◽  
Sandy Gordon
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Elite Athletes ◽  
Cognitive Appraisals ◽  
International Competition ◽  
The Face ◽  
Stressful Experience ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Commonwealth Games

The purpose of this study was to investigate appraisals and coping of elite athletes when facing expected versus unexpected stressors. Questionnaires were sent to all New Zealand athletes competing at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, and 91 athletes provided responses inside three weeks of the closing ceremony. A stressful experience that had occurred prior to or during their most important performance was identified by 71 althletes. Analysis revealed significant differences in the way athletes cognitively appraised expected and unexpected stressors. Unexpected stressors were perceived as more threatening than expected stressors. Athletes also indicated a significantly greater tendency to hold back or hesitate from responding or acting in the face of unexpected stressors in comparison to expected stressors. Athletes employed a variety of strategies to help them cope with their most stressful experience. Stressor expectedness, however, was not related to coping use or performance and coping evaluations. Finally, a modest but significant relationship was observed between coping strategy effectiveness and coping automaticity. These findings suggest that competitively functional primary and secondary cognitive appraisals of stressors may result from the preparation of athletes for potentially distressing events and circumstances associated with major international competitions.

Balancing psychache and resilience in aging Holocaust survivors

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 929-934 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irit Ohana ◽  
Hava Golander ◽  
Yoram Barak
Keyword(s):  
Comparison Group ◽  
Holocaust Survivors ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Trauma Survivors ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Theory Of Aging ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Matched Comparison

ABSTRACTBackground:Psychache can and does co-exist alongside resilience and coping amongst trauma survivors. This has been the center of the a-integrative theory of aging demonstrating an attitude to life based on cognitive and emotional dimensions. Aging of Holocaust survivors (HS) is especially difficult when focus is brought to the issue of integrating their life history. The present study aimed to investigate the interplay between psychache and resilience amongst aging HS.Methods:Cross-sectional study of HS and a matched comparison group recruited from the general population was carried out. All underwent a personal interview and endorsed quantifiable psychache and resilience scales.Results:We enrolled 214 elderly participants: 107 HS and 107 comparison participants. Mean age for the participants was 80.7± years; there were 101 women and 113 men in each group. Holocaust survivors did not differ in the level of resilience from comparisons (mean: 5.82 ± 0.68 vs. 5.88 ± 0.55, respectively). Psychache was significantly more intense in the HS group (F(8,205) = 2.21; p < 0.05).Conclusions:The present study demonstrates the complex interplay between psychache and resilience. Aging HS still have to cope with high levels of psychache while realizing a life-long process of development through resilience.

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