HDFS 3319 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Emotion Work, Minority Stress, Child Care
15 Dec 2018
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Feminist scholars focused on multidimensional nature of everyday hassles. Families and their members function better to the extent that they deal with daily hassles in constructive ways. Family well being: changes based on how family members behave in response to hassles, enduring vulnerabilities. Family members" relatively stable intrapersonal characteristics: personality, child temperament, type a mothers: more likely to engage in aversive interactions with preschoolers on days they had experienced overloads or negative interpersonal interactions at work. Structural and behavioral patterns from family of origin: everyday hassles, young and midlife adults experience more hassles than older adults, women do more of the required and unoptional chores (cooking, laundry, etc. Important to consider the context in which daily hassles are taking place: exacerbated or buffered by. Socioeconomic status: nonstandard work hours, minority stress linked to race, ethnicity, sexuality, adaptive processes, two different patterns (following heavy workload days)
