Deviation in emotion and the labeling of mental illness

Pugliesi, Karen

doi:10.1080/01639625.1987.9967733

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“…Previous research also indicated that people who lack proper social skills and who tend to perform inappropriate affective behaviours are less likely to receive good care (Kumar 2004). They are even deemed to be dangerous individuals by professional staff (Pugliesi 1987). In contrast to children with other special education needs, teachers were less empathetic towards students with autism.…”

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Attribution Model of Stigma towards Children with Autism in Hong Kong

Ling

Mak

Cheng

2010

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Background Accounting for the effects of knowledge of and experience with autism, the relationships of cognitive attribution (perceived controllability), emotions (anger and sympathy), as well as helping and punitive behavioural intentions towards children with autism were examined. Based on the attribution model, mediating effects of anger and sympathy on cognitive attributions and behavioural intentions were tested. Materials and Methods 123 frontline staff in educational settings completed a modified version of the Attribution Questionnaire after reading a hypothetical vignette and completing a quiz on autism.Results Knowledge and experience were only significantly related to punitive behavioural intention towards children with autism. Anger and sympathy mediated the effect between perceived controllability on both helping and punitive behavioural intentions. Conclusions The intentional responses towards children with autism were strongly related to their emotional reactions. Thus, in addition to educating frontline staff about autism, training them on emotion regulation is equally important in autism stigma reduction.

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Attribution Model of Stigma towards Children with Autism in Hong Kong

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Cheng

2010

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“…The stories created during those interviews were interpreted within an analytical context of interaction rituals (Collins 2004:34; Goffman [1967] 1982; Knottnerus 1997). This analytical aim also applies to the emotions that emerged during the interviews, such as fear, shame, hate, and joy (Hochschild [1983] 2003; Pugliesi 1987; Turner and Stets 2006). I taped all interviews and wrote notes during the conversations so that the expressed emotions could be displayed in the descriptions and observed through direct interaction.…”

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“…Moving between different situations results in individuals’ bringing along this emotional charge from previous relationships. Emotions are present in all social situations and thus are an essential part of social interplay (Hochschild [1983] 2003; Pugliesi 1987; Turner and Stets 2006). As I have noted, Hochschild ([1983] 2003) states that individuals perform emotional labor in relation to the normatively “correct” emotional codes in a certain situation (“emotional control”).…”

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Concentration Camp Rituals

Basic

2016

Humanity & Society

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In the German camps during the Second World War, the aim was to kill from a distance, and the camps were highly efficient in their operations. Previous studies have thus analyzed the industrialized killing and the victims' survival strategies. Researchers have emphasized the importance of narratives but they have not focused on narratives about camp rituals, or analyzed post-war interviews as a continued resistance and defense of one's self. This article tries to fill this gap by analyzing stories told by former detainees in concentration camps in the Bosnian war during the 1990s. The article aims to describe a set of recounted interaction rituals as well as to identify how these rituals are dramatized in interviews. The retold stories of humiliation and power in the camps indicate that there was little space for individuality and preservation of self.Nevertheless, the detainees seem to have been able to generate some room for resistance, and this seems to have granted them a sense of honor and self-esteem, not least after the war. Their narratives today represent a form of continued resistance.Keywords: humiliated self, status ritual, stigma, resistance, de-ritualization, power ritual 2 IntroductionIn the German camps during the Second World War, the aim was to kill from a distance, and the camps were highly efficient and industrialized in their operations (Bauman 1991; Langer 1991; Megargee 2013a,b). Previous studies have thus analyzed the efficient and industrialized killing of other people and survival strategies in concentration camps (Bauman 1991; Langer 1991 Langer , 1996 Luchterhand 1953; Megargee 2013a,b; Round 2006; Ryn 1990; Sunderland 2010; Stein 2009; van Ree 2013). Researchers have emphasized the importance of narratives but have not focused on narratives about rituals as a starting point. Neither have they analyzed post-war interviews as a continued resistance and defending of one's self. This article shows how interactions rituals in concentration camp are described by Bosnian interviewees and how post-war narratives are a form of continued resistance and defense of one's self. In this way the article contributes to a sociological, and criminological understanding of the phenomenon interaction rituals in the concentration camp.My analysis is based on interpersonal interpretations of violence during the 1990s war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In their quest for 'ethnic cleansing' of Bosniacs 1 and Croats from northwestern Bosnia, Serbian soldiers and policemen, among others, used concentration camps.The aim of the ethnic cleansing was to take control of the geographic area by expelling the Bosniac and Croat populations. In addition to concentration camps, the ethnic cleansing of northwestern Bosnia consisted of a range of other techniques, including mass murder, systematic rape, forced flight, and economic and legal discrimination. For example, in just the municipality of Prijedor in northwestern Bosnia, the number of Bosniacs and Croats killed during summer 1992 was more than 3000 (in...

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“…The latter involve a too intense state, vis‐à‐vis an “appropriate” type of stimuli. Like emotional deviance more generally (Pugliesi ), both discrepancies lead people to self‐label and/or interactionally label, with significant others, emotional states as deviant.…”

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Emotions into Disorder: Anxiety Disorders and the Social Meaning of Fear

Esala

Rosso

2019

Symbolic Interaction

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This article explores what we refer to as norm‐stimuli‐state discrepancies, which are disparities between people's physical‐emotional responses to emotional cues and the normative meanings of those cues. Drawing on forty qualitative interviews and participant observation research at support groups, we show that people with anxiety disorders describe two forms of norm‐stimuli‐state discrepancies. The first form involves discrepancies of type, in which people label fearful emotional states as deviant for being caused by the “wrong” stimuli. The second involves discrepancies of intensity, in which people label fearful states as deviant for involving feelings or displays of “too much” anxiety in response to an “appropriate” stimuli. The article further addresses the role of stimuli in prompting treatment seeking. Unexpected and intense emotional distress in combination with the falling away of external cues—which we refer to as “stimuli‐less fear”—serve as a critical juncture on the path to an anxiety disorder diagnosis.

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Deviation in emotion and the labeling of mental illness

Cited by 18 publications

References 32 publications

Attribution Model of Stigma towards Children with Autism in Hong Kong

Attribution Model of Stigma towards Children with Autism in Hong Kong

Concentration Camp Rituals

Emotions into Disorder: Anxiety Disorders and the Social Meaning of Fear

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