“Tension” and distress in South Asia: A systematic literature review

Weaver, Lesley Jo; Karasz, Alison

doi:10.1016/j.ssmmh.2022.100092

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“…Talk about "nerves," "tension," or "stress," for example, while often used to convey concern or distress in a colloquial way, prompts a search for internal or external sources of difficulty. "Nerves" points to internal vulnerability (Low, 1994), "stress" to a wide range of external circumstances (Young, 1980), and "tension" spans or bridges the two (Weaver & Karasz, 2022). Metaphors like TENSION have been widely adopted across cultures perhaps because (i) they are apt and readily understood through grounding bodily experience, (ii) they reference discourse endorsed by popular and authoritative sources in local and global media, and (iii) they are minimalistic or vague in their ontological assumptions or implications and thus have broad, flexible applicability.…”

Section: Articulating and Elaborating Illness Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural poetics of illness and healing

Kirmayer

2023

Transcult Psychiatry

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This issue of Transcultural Psychiatry presents selected papers from the McGill Advanced Study Institute on “Cultural Poetics of Illness and Healing.” The meeting addressed the cognitive science of language, metaphor, and poiesis from embodied and enactivist perspectives; how cultural affordances, background knowledge, discourse, and practices enable and constrain poiesis; the cognitive and social poetics of symptom and illness experience; and the politics and practice of poetics in healing ritual, psychotherapy, and recovery. This introductory essay outlines an approach to illness experience and its transformation in healing practices that emphasizes embodied processes of metaphor as well as the social processes of self-construal and positioning through material and discursive engagements with the cultural affordances that constitute our local worlds. The approach has implications for theory building, training, and clinical practice in psychiatry.

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Section: Articulating and Elaborating Illness Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural poetics of illness and healing

Kirmayer

2023

Transcult Psychiatry

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“…One common example found globally is “thinking too much,” characterized by distressing rumination (Kaiser et al 2015). Another is “tension,” which has been documented throughout South Asia (Wahid et al 2022; Weaver and Karasz 2022). People around the world also commonly use biomedical categories such as “depression” and “anxiety” to label their distress, though the symptoms and meanings vary in different settings (Haroz et al 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Ethnographic Methods for Identifying Cultural Concepts of Distress: Developing Reliable and Valid Measures

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We review ethnographic methods that allow researchers to assess distress in a culturally sensitive manner. We begin with an overview of standardized biomedical and psychological approaches to assessing distress cross-culturally. We then focus on literature describing the development of reliable and valid culturally sensitive assessment tools that can serve as complements or alternatives to biomedical categories and diagnostic frameworks. The methods we describe are useful in identifying forms of suffering—expressed in culturally salient idioms of distress—that might be misidentified by biomedical classifications. We highlight the utility of a cognitive anthropological theoretical approach for developing measures that attend to local cultural categories of knowledge and experience. Attending to cultural insider perspectives is necessary because expressions of distress, thresholds of tolerance for distress, expectations about stress inherent in life, conceptions of the good life, symptom expression, and modes of help-seeking vary across cultures.

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“…Gender issues have extended into many aspects of human life. Several studies have sought to link gender to food availability (Wolfram &;Kienesberger, 2023), gender and forest management (Ville et al, 2023), gender and social tensions (Weaver &;Karasz, 2022), gender and public transport safety (Sundling &;Ceccato, 2022), aviation industry gender and work pressures (Smith et al, 2023), gender and online learning readiness (Scherer et al, 2023), and women's involvement in vulnerable jobs (Lo Bue et al, 2022). Research using a gender approach has expanded into the fields of gender and education (Li, 2023), gender and poverty (Chant, 2011), gender and media culture (Tanaka, 2004), gender and religious conversion (Van Nieuwkerk, 2006).…”

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Gender Issues in Student Scientific Papers: Study of Student Thesis of Faculty of Da'wah and Communication Sciences UIN Syahada Padangsidimpuan, Indonesia

(DR., M.Kom.I)

2023

IJSSHR

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Da'wah and gender research has been carried out before, but focusing on gender research and da'wah higher education is still very limited. This study aims to analyze the theme of gender in the thesis work of students of the Faculty of Da'wah and Communication Sciences, Sheikh Ali Hasan Addary State Islamic University, Padangsidimpuan. The method used is a documentation study with a systematic literature review to analyze gender themes contained in student thesis documents. Documents used as data sources are limited to the period of publication years, starting from 2018 to 2022. The results found that gender issues are still very limited to student theses in the last five years. Analysis of 592 FDIK theses found that none of the theses used the word gender, only 18 theses used the word gender in the text, one thesis used gender as the main theory, and one other thesis contained gender as a sub-section of discussion. Varied gender terms are only found in theses that use gender theory. The dominant keywords as representations of gender themes are roles, wives, women, women, and adolescents. This study recommends to the Faculty of Da'wah and Communication Sciences to provide knowledge and skills that can build gender awareness for students, and direct student thesis research for gender issues.

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“Tension” and distress in South Asia: A systematic literature review

Cited by 12 publications

References 106 publications

Cultural poetics of illness and healing

Cultural poetics of illness and healing

Ethnographic Methods for Identifying Cultural Concepts of Distress: Developing Reliable and Valid Measures

Gender Issues in Student Scientific Papers: Study of Student Thesis of Faculty of Da'wah and Communication Sciences UIN Syahada Padangsidimpuan, Indonesia

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