scholarly journals Experience of Joy and Sadness in Alexithymic Emotional Discourse

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-83
Author(s):  
Marie-Mathilde Dupont-Leclerc ◽  
Serge Lecours
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Properties ◽  
Comprehensive Description ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Typical Experience ◽  
Positive And Negative Emotions

Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties identifying and describing emotions. Suffering from a deficit in the cognitive processing of emotions, alexithymic individuals are unable to symbolize their emotions. Even though emotional elaboration is one of the core aspects of alexithymia, it has not been thoroughly investigated. Few studies have reported quantitative features of alexithymic’s discourse. However, the qualitative properties of alexithymic emotional discourse and the difference in symbolization between positive and negative emotions remain to be investigated. This study aims to examine how individuals with alexithymia symbolize their subjective emotional experiences by defining the characteristics of their discourse related to positive and negative emotions. A sample of 9 clinically alexithymic individuals rated on the TAS-20 was interviewed about a typical experience of joy and sadness. Data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Themes associated with sadness revealed that alexithymic individuals tend to avoid contact with sadness. They also perceived sadness as an imposed state by external events. Themes associated with joy revealed that this emotion seemed easier to share with peers. Moreover, joy seemed easier to express and symbolize for alexithymic individuals than sadness. This comprehensive description of alexithymic emotional discourse allows to better understand the symbolization of emotions according to their valence and to better recognize alexithymic ways of expressing emotions.

scholarly journals STUDI FENOMENOLOGI PENGALAMAN PENYESUAIAN DIRI MAHASISWA PAPUA DI SURABAYA

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eri Wijanarko ◽  
Muhammad Syafiq
Keyword(s):  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Active Coping ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Local Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
The Difference

This study was aimed to explore the Papua students' adaptation experience while they are studying in Surabaya. A qualitative approach with phenomenological method was applied. Seven participants were recruited using purposive and snowball sampling. Data collected using semi-structural interviews and analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). The results shows that Papua students face many difficulties in adapting to the local society. The difference in physical characteristics, language and cultural habit are the main reasons. These difficulties affect their personal and sosial life. At personal level, inferiority and sensitivity are the main issues, while at the social level, passivity and enclave formation are dominant tendencies. In order to solve the difficulties and its effects, participants apply some strategies, namely avoidance, self control, and active coping. These strategies are chosen by participants to gain self development and wellbeing. It can be concluded from the result that most partisipants are facing adaptation difficulties while they are studying in Surabaya; however, they make some efforts to cope the difficulties.Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana pengalaman penyesuaian dirivmahasiswa Papua di Surabaya. Pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode fenomenologis digunakan. Tujuh partisipan berhasil direkrut dengan teknik purposive dan snowball sampling. Data dikumpulkan melalui wawancara semi-terstruktur dan dianalisis menggunakan interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa mahasiswa Papua di Surabaya mengalami berbagai hambatan dalam menyesuaikan diri ketika sedang menjalani kuliah. Penyebab hambatan itu adalah adalah perbedaan dalam bahasa dan kebiasaan budaya. Partisipan juga mempersepsi perbedaan fisik dan warna kulit sebagai penyebab hambatan interaksi. Hambatan interaksi yang dihadapi menimbulkan dampak personal maupun sosial bagi para partisipan. Inferioritas dan sensitifitas adalah di antara beberapa dampak personal yang dialami. Sedangkan kecenderungan untuk lebih bergaul hanya dengan sesama mahasiswa Papua dan keengganan berhubungan dekat dengan mahasiswa dan masyarakat lokal menjadi dampak sosialnya. Namun, adanya hambatan interaksi dan dampaknya tersebut disadari oleh partisipan cukup merugikan sehingga mereka menjalankan beberapa strategi penyesuaian diri untuk mengatasinya. Beberapa strategi yang dapat diidentifikasi adalah: menghindar dari masalah (avoidance), berupaya mengendalikan emosi, pikiran, dan perilaku (self control), dan menghadapi masalah secara aktif (active coping). Berbagai strategi tersebut dilakukan terutama didorong oleh dua tujuan, yaitu demi pengembangan diri dan untuk menjaga kesejahteraan psikologis mereka. Penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa partisipan penelitian ini menghadapi berbagai kesulitan dalam beradaptasi dengan masyarakat lokal di mana mereka sedang studi, namun mereka melakukan upaya untuk mengatasi hambatan-hambatan adaptasi tersebut.

scholarly journals Directed Motivational Currents (DMCs) in Self-directed Language Learning: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-212
Author(s):  
Ismail Xodabande ◽  
Esmat Babaii
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Language Learner ◽  
Positive Emotionality ◽  
The Core ◽  
Mobile Assisted Language Learning ◽  
Core Characteristics

Directed Motivational Currents (DMCs) postulated as a novel motivational construct in second language acquisition (SLA) research to explain periods of intense and enduring behavior in pursuit of a highly valued goal or vision. Nonetheless, much of the discussion related to this new motivational phenomenon has remained theoretical, and only a limited number of empirical studies have investigated its various dimensions in language learning. The current qualitative study employed interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to explore a period of intense motivation experienced by an Iranian language learner in self-directed and mobile assisted language learning. The findings provided further empirical evidence for the triggering stimulus and the core characteristics of DMCs in terms of goal/vision orientedness, a salient facilitative structure, and positive emotionality in explaining the essence and the universal meaning of the phenomenon experienced by the participant of the current study.

scholarly journals Growing Up with a Mother with Depression: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Van Parys ◽  
Jonathan Smith ◽  
Peter Rober
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Childhood Experience ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Retrospective Investigation

The aim of this study was to explore the childhood experience of living with a parent with depression from a retrospective point of view. Five women between 39 and 47 years of age, who grew up with a mother with depression, were interviewed about their current perspectives on their childhood experiences. Interviews were semi-structured and the data were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Data analysis led to a narrative organized in two parts. The first part (retrospective understanding of childhood experiences) reports on feelings of desolation contrasted to exceptional support, context-related dwelling on own experiences, and growing into a caring role as a way to keep standing. The second part (towards an integration of childhood experiences in adult realities) evidences ongoing processes of growing understanding of the situation at home, coping with own vulnerabilities, making the difference in their current family life and finding balance in the continued bond with the parents. This retrospective investigation of adults’ perspectives on their childhood experiences gave access to aspects of their experience that remain underexposed in research based on data from children and adolescents.

scholarly journals Expression of the concept of "emotion" in contemporary English-language discourse (based on material from female novels of the 21st century)

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Nadia Yesypenko ◽  
Victoria Boicu
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Level Structure ◽  
Central Zone ◽  
The Core ◽  
Language Discourse ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Women's Novels ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive And Negative Emotions

The article analyzes the theoretical and methodological base for the study of emotions and concepts in modern linguistics. The relationship between the conceptual and nominative fields is revealed, where the conceptual field has a multi-level structure with the possibility of distinguishing the core, central zone and periphery, and the nominative field of the concept consists of a combination of language means, objectifies the concept in a certain period of development of society. The conceptual component of the structure of the concept of "emotion" is defined. The features of actualization of the concepts of positive and negative emotions in women's novels by John Green are revealed. The frequency of occurrence of the concepts of positive and negative emotions in the art discourse is analyzed.

scholarly journals DR.YASHODHAR MATHPAL’S PORTRAIT AS A DOCUMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-52
Author(s):  
Srishti Sah Jagati ◽  
Annpurna Shukla
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Inner Self ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Positive And Negative Emotions

Whenever we look at an artwork, we often don’t know about what is the difference in between, seeing and observing. We often perceive the overall effect created by that work of art, without noticing the details. Off course, the effect created by that artwork in total plays an important part in evoking both positive and negative emotions. But there are few images which speak to the mind and inner self within minutes or seconds. In Visual Art the artists have ben recording, incidents, ideas and messages. The reason why it has been labelled for documenting, illustrating and narrative qualities.

scholarly journals To laugh or not to laugh? That is the question.

2021 ◽  
Vol 06 (02) ◽  
pp. 261-264
Author(s):  
Villy Tsakona
Keyword(s):  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Basic Belief ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Positive And Negative Emotions ◽  
The Way

We usually think of comedy and tragedy as opposites, but perhaps we should consider them as two sides of the same coin. As Morreall (1999: 21) suggests,“[t]he most basic belief [which the comic and the tragic visions of life] share is that life is full of incongruities, discrepancies between the way things ought to be and the way they are. The difference between the two visions of life is more in their attitudes than in any beliefs about matters of fact.” They involve different and usually opposite ways of evaluating the same human condition. In other words, comedy and tragedy are built on incongruities assessed and framed to generate positive and negative emotions, respectively. Furthermore, comic/humorous and tragic/serious elements may co-occur in the same text, even if the text is primarily intended as funny. In such cases, texts become a blend of humorous utterances/parts and serious or even tragic ones – the latter constitute what Attardo (2001: 89) calls serious relief in humorous texts.

Case Formulation

2013 ◽  
pp. 38-63
Author(s):  
Gail Steketee ◽  
Randy O. Frost
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Case Formulation ◽  
Case Vignettes ◽  
Graphic Illustration ◽  
Conceptual Formulation ◽  
Positive And Negative Emotions

Chapter 4 encourages clinicians to work with clients to develop a clear formulation of how their hoarding and acquiring symptoms developed and why they persist. The conceptual formulation includes discussion of reasons for saving to clarify clients’ thoughts and beliefs about possessions. Clients learn to complete a brief Thought Record and fill out a form to identify locations and times of problematic acquiring. Extensive clinician-client dialog in case vignettes illustrates how to collect information to complete the conceptual model that will guide treatment. Included in the model is information about family and personal vulnerabilities to hoarding, cognitive processing problems, thoughts and beliefs, and positive and negative emotions that drive hoarding and acquiring behaviors. A graphic illustration of a hoarding model is provided, along with instructions for developing a functional analysis of acquiring behavior.

Developing Your Personal Hoarding Model

2013 ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Gail Steketee ◽  
Randy O. Frost
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Vulnerability Factors ◽  
Graphic Illustration ◽  
Positive And Negative Emotions

Chapter 3 encourages clients to learn to develop their own model for understanding why hoarding and acquiring symptoms developed and persist. The formulation includes personal and family vulnerability factors, cognitive processing problems, reasons for saving possessions, and positive and negative emotions that encourage hoarding and acquiring behaviors. A brief Thought Record helps identify problematic thinking about saving and acquiring. A graphic illustration of a hoarding model and instructions for developing a functional analysis of acquiring behavior are provided. Homework strategies are included.

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