Chronic ambivalence: An individual and marital problem.

Braverman, Shirley

doi:10.1037/h0085695

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“…Ambivalence is defined as simultaneous attraction to and repulsion from an action, inhibiting individuals who experience it from making decisions and taking action [2]. Billig et al [1] explore the dilemmas in everyday life, describing the inner dialogue that individuals use to balance the gains and losses between options and highlighting the importance of the presentation and awareness of choices to the process.…”

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Working with ambivalence: informal caregivers of patients at the end of life

Harding¹,

Higginson²

2001

Support Care Cancer

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Informal caregivers of patients at the end of life perform a crucial role in maintaining and supporting patients at home. They provide a high level of demanding care, and as a consequence have been shown to have high-level information and support needs themselves. However, they are less often identified as recipients of services than as providers, and little research has addressed how services should be developed to meet their needs. This study aimed to address obstacles in the access to and provision of targeted, appropriate interventions. Eighteen informal carers participated in this qualitative study, which used a grounded approach to the analysis and generation of concepts. The data showed that while recognising their stress, anxiety and need for a caregivers' service, caregivers were highly ambivalent with regard to their own needs. The design and delivery of an intervention aimed at caregivers should take account of their high level of ambivalence by addressing their lack of identification with their role, enhancing existing coping strategies, and ensuring that interventions are accessible and acceptable.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Working with ambivalence: informal caregivers of patients at the end of life

Harding¹,

Higginson²

2001

Support Care Cancer

105

106

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“…The discipline of psychology has long been concerned with ambivalence, for example in mental health problems, where it may manifest in chronic ambivalence and splitting (e.g. Akhtar and Byrne, 1983; Braverman, 1987). Today, however, ambivalence is also studied as a common experience in everyday life that may arise in both mundane and dramatic, emotionally intense situations (Ersner-Hershfield et al, 2008; Larsen et al, 2001; Larsen and McGraw, 2011; Laurenceau et al, 2005).…”

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The gradeless paradox: Emancipatory promises but ambivalent effects of gradeless learning in business and management education

Kjærgaard

Mikkelsen

Buhl-Wiggers

2022

Management Learning

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The negative impacts of grades on students’ approach to learning and well-being have renewed the interest in gradeless learning in higher education, with the current literature focusing on the positive outcomes for students, including the advancement of student learning, reduced stress, increased motivation, and enhanced performance. While the idea of freeing students from the weight of grades sounds promising, grades are so integral to the educational system that the effects of learning without grades may not provide the relief intended. In this article, we present a qualitative case study of how business and management students experienced having gradeless learning in their first year of an undergraduate program. Our data show that students felt true ambivalence about learning without grades. Although gradeless learning was associated with less pressure, higher motivation, and a more collaborative approach to learning, it also engendered feelings of identity loss and uncertainty among students about their own performance and future opportunities. Our study contributes to previous studies on the impact of grades by revealing the ambivalence experienced by students when learning without the well-known metric of grades in a performance culture. Moreover, it provides new empirical insights into how business and management students experience gradeless learning.

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“…Conndis and McMullin () assert that ambivalence has been conceptualised at two levels: psychological and sociological. The psychological definition is arguably the most dominant, referring to an individual experience that involves a ‘simultaneous attraction towards and a repulsion from’ something or someone that manifests in feelings of discomfort (Braverman, , p. 85). Conversely, sociological ambivalence has been used less frequently as a conceptual tool (Hillcoat‐Nammétamby and Phillips, ), but potentially has a lot to offer how we understand children’s experiences of death due to its emphasis on the interaction between social relations and structural influences (ibid).…”

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Is Death Taboo for Children? Developing Death Ambivalence as a Theoretical Framework to Understand Children’s Relationship with Death, Dying and Bereavement

Paul

2019

Children & Society

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Children’s voices are missing from debates related to the idea that death is a taboo subject and this limits understandings of how children encounter death. Drawing on data from focus groups with children aged 9–12, this paper aimed to explore if and how children experience death as a taboo, but discovered that the death‐taboo thesis lacks nuance, confining and misrepresenting children’s experiences. Death ambivalence is thus proposed as a conceptual tool to illuminate children’s relationship with death. It identifies policy and practice implications concerned with developing death literacy and brings a new theorisation to death and childhood studies.

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Chronic ambivalence: An individual and marital problem.

Cited by 4 publications

References 4 publications

Working with ambivalence: informal caregivers of patients at the end of life

Working with ambivalence: informal caregivers of patients at the end of life

The gradeless paradox: Emancipatory promises but ambivalent effects of gradeless learning in business and management education

Is Death Taboo for Children? Developing Death Ambivalence as a Theoretical Framework to Understand Children’s Relationship with Death, Dying and Bereavement

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