The Temporal Emotion Work of Motherhood

Lois, Jennifer

doi:10.1177/0891243210377762

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“…Lois [32] shows how mothers who home-school consider that they are putting their children at the centre of their lives, and Avishai [33] shows how mothers who breastfeed see that as a further commitment to the health of their children. As a sociological critique, Reich argues that when women make vaccine-related decisions for their children, “they do so as educated, partnered and privileged women” [4] (p. 683)–this resonates with most of the female respondents in our study.…”

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Understanding the perceived logic of care by vaccine-hesitant and vaccine-refusing parents: A qualitative study in Australia

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In terms of public health, childhood vaccination programs have benefits that far outweigh risks. However, some parents decide not to vaccinate their children. This paper explores the ways in which such parents talked about the perceived risks and benefits incurred by vaccinating (or not vaccinating) their children. Between 2013–2016 we undertook 29 in-depth interviews with non-vaccinating and/or ‘vaccine hesitant’ parents in Australia. Interviews were conducted in an open and non-judgmental manner, akin to empathic neutrality. Interviews focused on parents talking about the factors that shaped their decisions not to (or partially) vaccinate their children. All interviews were transcribed and analysed using both inductive and deductive processes. The main themes focus on parental perceptions of: 1. their capacity to reason; 2. their rejection of Western medical epistemology; and 3. their participation in labour intensive parenting practices (which we term salutogenic parenting). Parents engaged in an ongoing search for information about how best to parent their children (capacity to reason), which for many led to questioning/distrust of traditional scientific knowledge (rejection of Western medical epistemology). Salutogenic parenting spontaneously arose in interviews, whereby parents practised health promoting activities which they saw as boosting the natural immunity of their children and protecting them from illness (reducing or negating the perceived need for vaccinations). Salutogenic parenting practices included breastfeeding, eating organic and/or home-grown food, cooking from scratch to reduce preservative consumption and reducing exposure to toxins. We interpret our data as a ‘logic of care’, which is seen by parents as internally consistent, logically inter-related and inter-dependent. Whilst not necessarily sharing the parents’ reasoning, we argue that an understanding of their attitudes towards health and well-being is imperative for any efforts to engage with their vaccine refusal at a policy level.

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“…Importantly, this emotion work that may have negative consequences for women (Lois 2010; Zapf 2002), particularly those who are already depressed. An orientation towards the other has been shown to be detrimental to women's well-being, promoting internalized forms of distress such as depression (Rosenfield et al 2006).…”

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“…Beyond gender shaping spousal depressive symptom transmission within marriage, we also expect gender to influence interpersonal emotional processes within marriage during periods of depression . Key characteristics of these interpersonal processes involve gender differences in emotion work, which are tied to depression (Erickson 2005; Lois 2010; Zapf 2002). Understanding how gender shapes these interpersonal processes around depression sheds light on how gender influences the depression experiences within marriage, including transmission of depressive symptoms.…”

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Marital Processes around Depression

Thomeer

Umberson

Pudrovska

2013

Society and Mental Health

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Despite extensive evidence of the importance of marriage and marital processes for mental health, little is known about the interpersonal processes around depression within marriage and the extent to which these processes are gendered. We use a mixed methods approach to explore the importance of gender in shaping processes around depression within marriage; we approach this in two ways. First, using quantitative longitudinal analysis of 2,601 couples from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we address whether depressive symptoms in one spouse shape the other spouse's depressive symptoms and whether men or women are more influential in this process. We find that a wife's depressive symptoms influence her husband's future depressive symptoms but a husband's depressive symptoms do not influence his wife's future symptoms. Second, we conduct a qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with 29 couples wherein one or both spouses experienced depression to provide additional insight into how gender impacts depression and reactions to depression within marriage. Our study points to the importance of cultural scripts of masculinity and femininity in shaping depression and emotional processes within marriage and highlights the importance of applying a gendered couple-level approach to better understand the mental health effects of marital processes.

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“…A lack of time to spend on themselves can increase mothers' feelings of ambivalence towards motherhood and homeschooling. Additionally, this lack of discretionary time increases stress, feelings of resentment, and frustration (Lois, 2010(Lois, , 2013.…”

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“…Many teacher-mothers rework how they speak about time to rationalize their choice to put themselves second, which Lois (2006Lois ( , 2013 calls temporal emotional work (Lois, 2010). These women use nostalgia and regret to justify putting their desires and needs on hold to homeschool their child.…”

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Motherhood, homeschooling, and mental health

Baker

2019

Sociology Compass

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Homeschooling fits neatly under the umbrella of intensive mothering, a prominent parenting style in the United States. Intensive mothering has been shown to increase the emotional distress of mothers, which may be exacerbated when mothers take on the additional burden of being responsible for the formal education of their children. Given that intensive mothering ideologies negatively impact maternal mental health, it makes sense to examine how homeschooling may exacerbate this outcome. In this paper, I examine the literature on intensive mothering, homeschooling, and mental health to demonstrate a need for further exploration to show how homeschooling mothers, encouraged by intensive mothering ideologies, may be putting their mental health, and more, at risk in their endeavors to be both “good mothers” as well as “good teachers.”

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The Temporal Emotion Work of Motherhood

Cited by 53 publications

References 16 publications

Understanding the perceived logic of care by vaccine-hesitant and vaccine-refusing parents: A qualitative study in Australia

Understanding the perceived logic of care by vaccine-hesitant and vaccine-refusing parents: A qualitative study in Australia

Marital Processes around Depression

Motherhood, homeschooling, and mental health

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