非正式照顾劳动中的情感工作研究——以孤独症儿童母亲的育儿实践为例

Emotion work in family caregiving:mothers’experiences in raising a child with autism

基于对21位孤独症儿童母亲的深度访谈与参与式观察,探讨孤独症儿童母亲在照顾实践中的情感工作。在抚育孤独症儿童的过程中,母亲们使用多重情感工作策略,包括工具型情感工作、保护型情感工作、关怀型情感工作和应急型情感工作。母亲们的情感表演经过审慎的思考,她们基于对关系重要性的判断选择情感工作的对象,基于对情境安全性的认知选择情感工作的场景,并基于对情感规则合理性的认可选择情感工作的卷入程度。上述结果说明,相较于公共领域中的情感劳动,非正式照顾者的情感管理行动更加丰富和复杂,需要相关社会政策与服务的关注与支持。

There is little research on the emotion work in family caregiving for children with autism though much has been done on the emotion labor of caring workers in the public domain.This study explores mothers’emotional experiences in taking care of a child with autism.Qualitative data were obtained from in⁃depth interviews and participant observation of 21 mothers.It was found that mothers have multiple strategies of emotion work,including instrumental,protective,caring and emergency emotion work.They also develop a mechanism to regulate their emotions.They tend to provide emotion work to persons who are considered important to them and at setting where they feel safe;mothers’involvement in emotion work is influenced by their acceptance of the emotion rules.Findings of this study extend current knowledge of carers’experience of emotion regulation,especially in the informal care sphere.Future social policies and services should acknowledge and meet the emotional needs of family carers.