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This article analyzes the notion of emotion in early modern England, specifically throughout the Elizabethan era, from some perspectives of cultural history (Febvre and Burke) and the so-called "affective turn". First, it identifies the terms that describe and allude to emotions in two of the most representative treatises on the subject, those of Thomas Rogers and Thomas Wright, published in 1576 and 1601, respectively, to verify that the term "emotion", which describes a certain alteration of mood, does not appear in these sources, as its use in English is later. Both writers choose concepts that they consider synonymous to refer to emotions, whether "feelings", "perturbations", "motions", or "affections", but, above all, "passions", which emphasizes the intensity of that which is suffered, although without entirely denying human agency. Secondly, it is established that both sources draw on Hippocratic-Galenic humoral theory and the philosophical heritage of Aristotle and Augustine, among others, but differ in the moral perspective of the emotions, for while Wright professed Catholicism, Rogers adhered to the Protestant Reformation. Finally, it is argued that Elizabethan culture assumes that the male subject not only experiences and expresses emotions in a different way than women, but also that while his emotions are rooted in the brain, liver and spleen, the entire female emotional structure, with its various manifestations, is associated with the womb. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Vilcún, Chile, on the evening of September 21, 1942, Francisca Cayupi Marín confronted and publicly stabbed Alberto Moraga Bello for leaving her and marrying someone else. Employing a microhistorical approach and based on the study of this legal case file, this research proposes, on one hand, the analysis of the use of violence as female agency in the face of conflicts in couples; and on the other hand, the analysis of emotions in the construction of a narrative of female defense in judicial testimonies, understood as a performative act and the display of negotiating abilities in response to decisions by judges and justice agents, within a regional and border space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores how was identified and evaluated the emotional states of women who, seized by strong emotions, reacted in a violent and disorderly way executing "excesses" considered outside the bounds of law in Captaincy General of Chile during the 18th century. To do so, it examines judicial records involving violent behaviors, interpersonal disputes and family conflicts in which mood was scrutinized to explain what predisposed the person's actions. It delves into how women's passional excess or disturbed emotions were described, comparing it to the descriptions of men acting under similar predisposition to find out patterns behind this identification and the evaluation made by those involved in the altercation, judges, witnesses and lawyers. The article suggests that Chilean culture identified in "furor" and "fury", translated into reactions that denoted "voracity" and "discomposure", a seed of inner instability that was close to madness or that could be assimilated to it. This state of internal disturbance could affect both men and women, although the evaluation on its significance was in each case different. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines what we term the 'un/making' of friendships: the complex, sometimes non-linear ways in which friendships start, are maintained (or not) and break down (or not). In doing so we seek to open out some of these complexities and explore how they interact with the form of these relationships. Drawing on repeat, in-depth interviews and ethnography with a friendship group of young people in rural community in the English Midlands, this paper theorizes the un/making of friendships through an exploration of young people's im/mobilities, their emotional attachments and responses to their friendships, and the ways in which their friendships are made, developed, sustained, fractured, and repaired as young people grow up/go on through transitions to adulthood. In doing so, the paper combines and contributes to literatures on geographies of friendships, youthful transitions and temporalities, and im/mobilities, principally through its theorization and exemplification of the 'un/making' of friendships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study adopts a corpus-based approach to the analysis of how the discourse of menopause is framed metaphorically, with a specific focus on negative emotional language. Using Wmatrix for the corpus analysis, the study takes as a starting point semantic tags for the most frequent emotions. Metaphorical expressions related to different aspects of menopause are extracted from the corpus and analyzed, in terms of biological processes and associated emotional and mental states. The aim is to reveal the most prominent metaphorical frames that emerge in such discourse, assessing their influence in shaping the conceptualization of menopause and underscoring their effect on societal perceptions of this stage in women’s life. Key findings highlight four dominant framings: menopause as EMOTIONAL TURBULENCE, as DISRUPTIVE CHANGE, as HORMONAL CONFLICT, and as a CHALLENGE TO SOCIETAL AND PERSONAL IDENTITY. The study concludes that dominant metaphorical framings of menopause reinforce stereotypes about women by presenting this stage of life as marked by emotional turmoil, loss of identity and symptoms of various kinds, thus shaping social perceptions that oversimplify and negatively color this important life transition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Emotions are central to human behavior and, consequently, play a significant role in policymaking. While the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) incorporates the notion of "public mood" into the political stream, this concept primarily focuses on a fleeting, less intense, and diffuse emotional state that is not necessarily linked to a specific triggering event or policy‐related object. To address this limitation, the current article draws on robust findings from political psychology, viewing and interpreting the MSF through an emotional lens. It investigates the intersections between emotions, on the one hand, and the assumptions and structural elements of the MSF, on the other, by sharpening existing concepts—such as the emotional agenda (policy) window, emotional decision window, and emotional policy entrepreneurs—to examine emotionality in policy dynamics. It concludes by discussing how an emotional perspective on the MSF can help scholars generate nuanced hypotheses, overcome the MSF's metaphorical language, and gauge when policy may be in search of a rationale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently, one of the topics that attracts the most interest in the experimental science didactics research agenda are emotions and their role in learning and teaching. Given the above, a review of the literature in this regard is presented here. Our study has a first phase of identifying publications in databases such as Scopus, Dialnet and Redalyc and a second phase of selection with theoretical criteria, in which those documents that presented reviewed and meta-analysis against research advances in this line. Subsequently, the data from these selected documents were organized, coded and analyzed with the help of the Atlas.ti24 data processing software, resulting in the recognition of some "key moments" within the research on emotions in science teaching. We begin our analysis with the identification of some causes of the lack of research on the subject and we reach the point of making considerations for its rise in the last decade and projections for the near future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Emotions play an important role in fostering positive parenting and healthy child development. This qualitative study explored the affective experiences of racially diverse US fathers with low income across the prenatal, postnatal, and early childhood periods. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 24 fathers. Interview questions asked about fathers' early parenting experiences that elicit parenting emotions of different valence. Results from thematic analysis demonstrated activation of multiple emotions depending on different proximal and distal experiences. Specific to proximal experiences, fathers reported feeling both excited and anxious about pregnancy and joyful and disappointed at childbirth. Related to distal experiences, fathers reported feeling encouraged by their social support networks that further aid their parenting, but feeling marginalized given systematic barriers (e.g., societal bias, high incarceration rates of Black fathers). Most importantly, fathers' parenting emotions, especially negative ones, led to them resolving to stay involved in their children's lives, gaining a sense of responsibility, and changing behaviors to do right by their children. Fathers resorted to various coping strategies to regulate their negative emotions. Overall, fathers with low income are emotionally resilient. Infant and early childhood health professionals should support fathers' mental health to promote father‐child engagement and thus, ultimately, young children's mental health and wellbeing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1939, Marília, a thirty-year-old Brazilian housewife, residing in São Paulo, killed her lover, Armando, with an axe and gunshots. She turned herself in to the police and was admitted by her brother-in-law to the Pinel Sanatorium, a psychiatric institution catering to the city's more affluent social groups. The sources for this research include clinical documents—such as a medical report, lab tests, prescriptions, and a letter written by Marília—as well as newspaper articles from São Paulo that reported on the crime. Drawing on theoretical and methodological frameworks from the socio-cultural history of emotions, the history of women and gender, and the history of madness and psychiatry, this article identifies the emotions that surface in the different documents recounting Marília's story. Our primary objective is to analyze these emotions, not to explore their specific meanings, but to understand what they produce. I aim to comprehend how the collection of these emotions, as articulated across the various narratives I examine, operates through shared meanings to construct both an event and a subject: Marília. The different narratives about her life, including her own, and the crime she committed, highlight two central emotions: sadness and anger. This analysis demonstrates that these emotions operate within an emotional framework that defines places, possibilities, and limitations for women, grounded in the perception of their interconnected bodies and minds, social markers of difference, and expert discourses. It also reveals that emotional resistances are persistent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking post-return everyday food practices as the primary analytical lens, this paper interrogates how the emotions of transnational returnees are structured by shifting spatio-temporalities in the process of return. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Shanghai, the empirical discussion examines the experiences of overseas returned students in Shanghai through three cases. These respectively highlight how practices and emotions relate to the persistence of hometown tastes throughout migration, the embrace of host foods while studying overseas, and the adaptation to new dietary patterns after return. These cases of post-return exemplify the intricate connections between food, place, and emotions. There are two implications drawn from the empirical discussion. First, from the spatial perspective, the post-return emotions of transnational return migrants are intricately linked not only to the place to which they return and currently reside in but also to the places they previously experienced as emigrants. Second, the emotions of transnational return migrants should be comprehended under specific temporal frameworks, which, in this paper, refer to transitional life stages. By investigating the post-return place-related emotions indicated by everyday food practices, this research contributes a more intricate understanding of the emotional worlds of transnational returnees and sheds light on the emotionality of transnational return migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study investigated the expression of emotions in pupils of the first five grades of primary school. The sample (N = 114) comprised pupils aged between 6.5 and 10.6 years, whose expression of emotions was observed using an observational schema. Observations were gathered in classrooms at 70 schools in different regions of Slovenia. Fourteen emotions were recognized in the pupils' expressions, with joy and anger predominating. The intensity of the expression of positive and negative emotions, as well as basic and complex emotions, was moderate, and no significant difference in intensity was observed between these categories. Boys expressed more positive, negative and basic emotions than girls. The situations that elicited emotions varied and reflected the prominent issues in school, particularly academic achievement, social interactions with teachers and classmates, and activities during lessons. The applicability of the results to teachers' work in the classroom was highlighted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sociological debates on the mobilising force of imagined futures are particularly relevant in our present context of climate emergency, where the claim-making of a 'threatened future' has come to the fore in civic mobilisations worldwide. This article addresses these debates by empirically examining how adverse views of the future underpinning present thematisations of climate change as an emergency shape collective action. Based upon qualitative research conducted in Barcelona on new climate movements, I analyse the content and form of two imagined futures ('catastrophe' and 'collapse') that emerge from the ways in which participants of Extinction Rebellion and Fridays for Future engage with the future and climate. This analysis shows how these imagined futures are reflected in individual imaginations and processed by these movements, infusing different forms of agency and impacting trajectories of action in the present. This empirically grounded focus on imagined climate futures reveals that not only are cognitions of climate risks crucial, but so are the emotions that these produce in configuring collective action. Likewise, this study highlights how even disastrous imagined climate futures include utopian impulses for sustainable futures as both a driver and result of collective action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes abortion experiences with misoprostol during the first decade of the 21st century in Argentina, before the legalization of the practice and the publication of the World Health Organization manuals on medication dosage. Based on in-depth interviews with women who underwent medical abortions during those years, we inquire about the mechanisms of information circulation and clandestine purchase of the drug. In addition, the article delves into experiences on the use of medication, confidence in the procedure, and the pain felt by these women from the theoretical perspective of the sociology of emotions. Among the most relevant findings is that women build networks and links to overcome the problems surrounding the practice of abortion because of the difficulty of obtaining the medication in the context of legality and illegality and the lack of information about the procedure itself and to develop a reliable method based on their own experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the emotional aspects of international student mobility (ISM) from African countries to a higher education institution in China. While there is increasing scholarly attention to the role of emotional experiences in ISM, most of this work has focused on Western destinations with a long history of education mobilities. Information on newly emerged, non-Western ISM destinations is comparatively limited. Drawing on ethnographic research of 15 months at a Chinese university, this article shows how emotions shape and re-shape pre-arrival aspirations, daily interactions, and post-graduation plans among students from African countries. Specifically, the study shows that many students confront emotional dissonance and perform diverse forms of ‘emotion work’ in attempts to find a sense of familiarity and belonging while studying abroad. This is significant as it speaks to students’ agentive subjectivity in contending with emotional challenges and navigating complex ‘emoscapes’. The paper argues that a focus on emotions contributes to a more nuanced, multifaceted understanding of contemporary educational mobilities. It illuminates how students’ multiple emotions are continuously articulated and circulated with and within these ISM flows apparently driven by economic forces in the global higher education market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Does anxiety affect how public officials process policy information? It is often argued that the increasing number of policy failures can be explained by a lack of policy learning by decision makers. While previous studies show that socioeconomic and partisan variables are related to the perception of policy information, little attention has been paid to the role of emotions, such as anxiety, in the policymaking process. In this paper, we investigate the impact of anxiety on the policy learning of local office holders at the individual level in Switzerland. We introduce the Marcus' Affective Intelligence Model—which examines how emotions affect individuals' information processing—to the policy learning literature. To test the expectations of the model, we draw on novel experimental data collected among local elected officials from the 26 Swiss cantons. In the experiment, we randomly display anxiety‐inducing images along with policy information. We provide evidence that anxiety has a positive causal effect on learning. Considering potential moderators of this effect, we show that the relationship is not conditioned by the strength of priors or the perceived complexity of public policies. However, these variables are substantially correlated with policy learning. Our findings have important implications for better understanding how information influences policymaking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ceuta and Melilla are considered exemplary models of the border spectacle. The fences of these cities typify the notion of ‘Fortress Europe’ and impel the emotional engagement of the inhabitants with migration control policies. This article focuses on the experiences of local activists who have resisted migration containment policies. Through a close examination of the emotional geographies of activism in border areas, and the effect of migration policies on the everyday, this article aims to uncover the civic emotions underlying the lived realities of activists. Furthermore, by addressing the methodological challenges of investigating social emotions, this study integrates visual elicitation methods into ethnographic research. The evocative power of cinema allows films to act as visual stimuli that convey the intimate narratives of activists, which encompass compassion, outrage, or fatigue in the context of pro-migrant mobilization. By drawing on the mundane experiences of borders, this article delves into the intersection of emotions, activism, and borders to elucidate experiences against migration control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Mexico, insecurity and fear of crime had been affected Mexican’s society historically. However, research has focused on comprehend the causes society attributes to both phenomena increasing and a little has been explored about the relationship those variables can have with concepts like social well-being. This study aims to know about the effect social well-being (and his dimensions), emotions (positive and negative) and negative perception of the world have on the fear of crime. A sample of 152 young students (55.3% women and 44.7% men) with a mean age of 25.56 years (SD= 3.30) participated in this research. Results showed that fear of crime has configurated as a problem itself and affects society in a differential way. Consequently, high levels of social well-being diminish worry about fear of crime. In opposition, high levels of negative perception of the world and of negative feelings, including low levels of social well-being and positive emotions promote higher levels of worry about fear of crime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Feminist foreign policy is analyzed in the speeches published on two international conflicts in some government accounts of Colombia, Spain, Argentina, and El Salvador. To do so, a statistical analysis of the discourse and categorization of emotions was used in more than 2000 messages on the social network X. Colombia and Spain show a more significant commitment to the multilateral agenda and use characteristics of a feminist foreign policy. However, they approach the conflicts of Russia-Ukraine (Spain) and Palestine-Israel (Colombia) differently. Regarding the emotional tone, negative emotions (hatred, distrust, anger) predominate --particularly in Colombia-- and in the case of positive emotions, trust --predominantly in Colombia and El Salvador--. The implications of the findings for adopting feminist foreign policy are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Emotions are physiological, cognitive and behavioral reactions that allow us to adapt to our environment. The increase in the complexity of the social structure during our development as a species modified the emotional requirements necessary to favor the survival of the individual and the group. Responses to the demands of the environment were more flexible and controlled to face dangers that were not immediate but were projected into the future and needed to be foreseen and addressed in the present. Once the current structure of our brain was shaped, neural plasticity allowed for an appropriate adjustment of the subject's behaviors, cognitions and emotions to an ever-changing physical and social environment. However, the digital world poses a new evolutionary challenge, because it has modified the time and space parameters of social interactions. This could be a new requirement of the environment, necessary for our evolution as a species. Being optimistic, we can think that we will manage to adapt, but it will be necessary to protect ourselves into the future and see what changes we must make in the present. These changes must start with an adequate knowledge of the process of the construction of emotions in the natural world, to be able to replicate it with guarantees in the digital world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the association between emotions and electoral participation. It asks which encourages or inhibits the vote and whether or not they play the same role in different age groups. To address these questions, we use the results of a survey conducted in Chile during the 2017 elections. It is argued, first, that among the general population, fear and optimism play a role in the decision of the vote. Second, in young people’s case, these emotions play an even more significant role. Third, anger is not related to the decision to vote. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective/context: The objective pursued by this research is to analyse the possible existence of a social and political fracture around the figure of former President Rafael Correa and his political legacy, the Citizen Revolution, which would act as a kind of polarizing division of Ecuadorian society: correismo/anti-correismo axis. A division that, born of politics, would have been established within society, allowing the existence of two opposing sides that feel, perceive and act in politics in a very different way. Methodology: To this end, a study has been drawn up with a quantitative methodological approach based on an analysis of the data contained in the Study of Politics and Emotions in Ecuador, March 2021 (SPEE), carried out by the EIP-USC after the first round of the 2021 presidential elections. Conclusions: The results of this first approach (descriptive and multivariate) allow us to affirm the existence of important differences between supporters and detractors of correismo, especially as regards political and emotional issues, but not so regarding sociodemographic issues. Originality: The influence that the emotional factor expressed towards the different political leaders would have in the construction of this fracture is especially relevant; providing a novel vision to the literature on the influence of Rafael Correa and his project in the Ecuadorian political system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While emotions are an inherent component of the human experience that influence behavior, values, and beliefs, they have largely been left out of policy process studies theoretically and methodologically. Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), with its focus on how individuals coalesce into coalitions around a set of common beliefs, we begin to situate emotions as a critical component of belief systems and discourse about public policies. This study analyzes legislative testimony from four policies debated during the 2021 Colorado Legislative Session using discourse analysis to identify the emotions and coalitional beliefs. We find that policy actors express emotions and beliefs similarly to other policy actors in the same coalition and differently from policy actors in the opposing coalition. We conclude this paper by discussing the theoretical and methodological contributions of including emotions in the ACF. The move to incorporate the analysis of emotional expressions, and hence the study of affect, into the ACF mirrors the ongoing incorporation of how people feel in politics and not just how they think. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a general, though not exhaustive, overview of the notion of care and its presence and relevance in gender historiography, examining how historical research can inform and shape new discussions. A bibliographic and narrative review methodology is used, comparing selected studies based on their contributions and scope. Given that care is a transdisciplinary issue with significant heuristic potential, both historical topics and those from other branches of the humanities and social sciences are considered. Care is understood here both as an affective and a labor disposition, and it is from these dimensions that the main debates and problems are presented, focusing specifically on those that have had the greatest presence in gender and history studies: domestic work, feminized professions that care for others, affective communities, and maternal love. In the context of the current care crisis, it is concluded that the topic needs to be viewed broadly and its contributions revalued from a critical gender theory perspective, also considering a historiographic perspective sensitive to contexts and capable of interpretive flexibility. The article focuses on the main academic discussions held in North America and European countries, aiming to contribute to understanding the theoretical and applied scope of care and acknowledging that there is still much ground to cover. The conclusions offer an overview of the thematic lines and theoretical assumptions that could enrich future historiographical research agendas on care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores contemporary discourses of deviation in early twentieth-century Colombia. Through analysis of a presidential assassination attempt in 1906, known as the Crime of Barrocolorado, it discusses the social construction of notions of criminality and danger in the light of the history of emotions. The assault on the president triggered a series of commentaries and reactions that revolved around anarchism, medicine, and criminology, topics that are dissected and connected here in search of their emotional components. In this way, the study brings forth the importance of emotions in the construction of social and political ideas in the past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In line with the call for greater engagement with the affective and emotional dimensions of conducting research in conflict and post-conflict settings, this article addresses the methodological implications of incorporating emotionally sensed knowledge into the research process. It argues that emotions serve as fundamental heuristic keys for entering the field and acquiring situated knowledge. By reflecting upon practical challenges and ethical concerns encountered during field research in Iraq, the article aims to challenge disciplinary practices that promote emotional self-censorship and provide guidance to young researchers navigating the messy contingencies of fieldwork. The neglect of emotions in positivist approaches is examined in relation to the political economy of knowledge production, suggesting that prevailing emotional silence may lead to harmful research practices and threatens epistemological pluralism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The overuse of social media as a means of interacting with other people during COVID-19 could have negative consequences for mental health in people with certain coping styles. The objective of this research was to analyze the relationship between coping, frequency of use of social networks and levels of anxiety and depression in young adults during COVID-19. An experiment was carried out in which 643 subjects participated who completed questionnaires of coping (Coping with Stress Questionnaire; SCQ), anxiety (Beck Anxiety Inventory; BAI) and depression (Beck Depression Inventory; BDI-IA). In addition, measurements were taken of the frequency of use of social networks (F-RS: 1 hour or less, 2-3 hours, 4-5 hours, more than 5 hours). The subjects who used social networks more frequently (> 5 hours vs <5 hours) had higher levels of anxiety, depression, negative self-focus, open emotional expression, and search for social support. On the other hand, the F-RS mediated the relationship between coping (negative self-focus, open emotional expression, avoidance, seeking social support) and levels of anxiety and depression. These results warn of the negative mediating role of the overuse of social networks in emergency situations on mental health, and provide relevant information to establish strategies that allow to regulate the affective intensity of the population and improve adherence to preventive measures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the literature on the emotional dimension in contentious politics the article offers some analytical tools to understand polarization in the Catalan political and social context. Using the Arlie Hochschild perspective on emotions (emotions as a sociocultural construct), and her research on polarization processes in the US, we will show how the pride of feeling Catalan can be transformed into a rule of feeling of secessionists groups. Also, throughout the text we will explore how emotions influence the construction of "us" versus "them", or how moral emotions such as rage, pride, outrage and indignation, or affective bonds such as hatred and contempt are determining variables in the process of radicalization of the political narrative between sovereigntists and secessionists, conservatives and progressives, and elites and grassroots political groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes the possibilities that the analysis of the notion of trust can have in nationalism studies. It is based on a theoretical perspective that emphasizes the emotional experience of the nation and the role of civil society in nationalization processes from below. The proposal is exemplified in the case study of the different mobilizations in what has been called El Procés: the claims for the independence of Catalonia, which took place in this Spanish region between 2012 and 2019. Based on the ethnographic analysis of the elements linked to the holding of the consultation or «referendum» on October 1st, 2017, the text raises the importance of trust in everything related to that action. The high emotional charge that the celebration of a prohibited and repressed act by the Spanish State entailed has turned it into a symbol of the independence movement, from which the various emotions experienced before, during, and after its celebration can be understood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is based on research carried out on the relationship between politics and emotions in the Catalan pro-independence movement. It proposes to situate emotions as an essential field of study in relation to contemporary politics and delve into the emotional valence of politics and the political valence of emotions to identify which emotions are most frequently activated in this movement. Emotions are not seen as negative or positive, or more or less political, but as ambivalent, politically productive, and as a complex assemblage. Research shows how emotions do not appear in isolation but in relation; their relationships change depending on the militancy, the political moment, the personal moment and age. Gender has little effect on the activation and configuration of emotions, according to the data. In relation to the Catalan independence process, the most relevant emotions according to the informants are fear and, far behind, anger, pride, shame, happiness and illusion. Among the multiple existing possibilities, a rather limited repertoire of emotions is mobilized, the maximum activation of which occurs in relation to specific moments identified as key moments by the informants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to address some consequences of immigration in relation to the exercise of motherhood between 1900 and 1930 in Buenos Aires. Through a case study we explore the experiences of a migrant mother who decided, under particular circumstances, to place her children in children's homes. Far from being an exception, this case expresses the experiences of other women who were diagnosed with various mental illnesses in which a deviation in "affectivity" and behavior towards the family nucleus with emphasis on the children appears as a symptom. Through the interweaving of sources that include medical records of the Asilo de Alienadas de Lomas de Zamora and files of minors of the Sociedad de Beneficencia, this article proposes to account for both the emotional prescriptions within the medical discourse in relation to the exercise of motherhood, as well as the emotional experiences of women who went through the path of medicalization and confinement. In the children's files it is possible to trace evidence of their experiences but also the agency, the motivations and the meaning of motherhood and care that a mother deployed in a context of vulnerability produced by migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Migration from Bolivia to Argentina is characterised by its family nature, and the jobs in which migrants are inserted --fruit and vegetable chains, brick kilns, textile workshops, street vending, etc.-- usually involve the overlapping of domestic and market work spaces. As a result, women take on caregiving tasks while carrying out paid work, which means that caregiving has specific characteristics and involves specific emotional experiences. Although studies on Bolivian migration to Argentina are prolific, they have not focused either on the overlapping of spaces mentioned above or on the emotions that migration arouses. Taking horticulture as a case study and using a qualitative approach based mainly on interviews and participant observation, this article analysed the care work carried out by Bolivian women in Argentina. The focus was on their emotional experiences and those of the children in their care. As will be seen below, what mothers believed their children had felt as raised in the horticulture framework defined, to a large extent, their own emotional experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The Teacher Emotion Inventory (TEI) scale is an instrument that evaluates discrete emotions experienced by teachers in the teaching-learning process. The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the brief Spanish version of the Teacher Emotion Inventory scale (TEI-BSV) using a sample of 567 teachers (65.5% women), aged between 25 and 65 years (M = 46.04; SD = 9.09). Methods: After adaptation through back-translation, the teachers completed a battery of tests included in the TEI-BSV: an emotional intelligence questionnaire, two subjective well-being scales, a burnout scale and a scale on engagement. Results: The data revealed adequate internal consistency of the TEI-BSV subscales, and exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses provided evidence that the TEI-BSV has a fourfactor structure with good adjustment, as opposed to the original fivefactor structure proposed. There was evidence of convergent validity of the TEI-BSV, as well as criterion and incremental validity. Conclusions: The TEI-BSV could be a useful instrument for the ecological assessment of teachers' discrete emotions in the context of their workplace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we analyze and discuss the emotional dimension that LGBT people associate with the exercise of motherhood/fatherhood. Based on feminist theory and subalternity and intersectionality theory contributions, we applied the biographical method to a dialogical-recursive investigative process. Participants were 21 LGBT people and key informants, belonging to academia, psychotherapy, politics, and diversity activism, over 18 years old, from Chile (16), Mexico (4), and Colombia (1); the participants were people between 21 and 57 years of age, with a mean age of 37.19 and a standard deviation of 10.03. We found emotions related to the social mandate to "be a good mother/father"; emotions resulting from social situations such as discrimination and legal lack of protection, and emotions derived from the parenting experience. We conclude that repression/resistance dynamics go through the bodies, and emotions are fundamental to this incarnation. Given this, the development of research focused on emotion can open ways to achieve more just societies through cultivated sentimentality, societies aware of the type of bonds that keep us as worthy members of a society and the performative effect of our emotional demands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In her autofictional writings, Marta Sanz exhibits herself tattooing her own middle-aged, diseased body before the public gaze. Her body could be any woman’s body: it becomes a privileged locus from which to examine a sense of vulnerability that exceeds the author herself. Sanz’s work serves as an entry point to the study of an emerging mode of socially committed autofiction produced by a transgenerational group of contemporary feminist authors, including Paula Bonet, Layla Martínez and Sara Torres. I turn to the works of Jacques Rancière and Sara Ahmed to examine how the aesthetics of these texts might affect the reader, thereby shedding light on the political – the relations to be established between what is seen and what is imaginable; what is done and what can be done –. The life writings recently published by Bonet, Martínez, Sanz and Torres, I sustain, signal the passage from a centripetal and patriarchal model of autofiction, where the author monologues with himself, to a centrifugal model, where the author reaches out to her audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While studies of femicide perpetrators have focused on background factors, such as criminal history and mental health conditions, little attention has been paid to their individual experiences. Perpetrators emotions and sense-making have often been overlooked and even dismissed. With a micro-sociological approach to violence, we identify the narrated emotions involved in the perpetration of intimate femicide. The data gathered are based on 33 open-ended interviews with convicted male perpetrators from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Honduras, Mexico, and Venezuela. We identify four main emotions reflecting participants' experiences of femicide: Fear, expressed through stories of women as threats to self, family, and community; helplessness, expressed through stories of men being trapped, judged, and persecuted; and pain, connected to stories of jealousy and belittlement. These lead to anger, expressed through stories of bodily reactions and losing control. The findings indicate that intimate femicide perpetrators resort to lethal violence to regulate self-worth and remediate actions they feel were disruptive. Our research demonstrates the importance of embodied and narrated emotions to understand femicides. We argue that viewing femicide as a product of a shared pervasive emotional economy highlights the role of emotions in maintaining a gendered social order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines how mothers' affective experience of motherhood impacts daughters' fertility intentions; the goal is to understand how adult daughters' fertility intentions are influenced by their perception of how much their mothers enjoyed mothering and loved their children. A survey of 2000 married women in Japan aged 25–35 with either no children or one child provides data to test hypotheses regarding the impact of daughters' experience of mothers' mothering. Regression and structural equation modeling reveal that those who think their mothers enjoyed being a mother and loved children have greater fertility intentions than those who sense strain in their mother's experience. This article concludes that fertility intentions are long in the making. In addition to being a product of immediate life circumstances, women's fertility intentions are partly a function of childhood and adolescence experience including affective aspects of the parenting they received. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many theories and approaches to policy studies have recently begun to question and research how emotions interact with peoples' understanding and behaviors, especially in policy and politics. This paper builds on and contributes to studying emotions in policy and politics via the advocacy coalition framework (ACF). In applying Emotional‐Belief Analysis, this paper examines the legislative testimony on one of the US' first gender‐affirming care (GAC) bans. It shows that those testifying can be organized in competing advocacy coalitions with distinct emotion‐belief expressions in combination with deep core and policy core beliefs. Moreover, expressions of negative emotions and policy core beliefs display significant and the largest effects in explaining coalition affiliation and shared views of the bill banning GAC. The conclusion summarizes the paper's empirical themes with suggestions for incorporating emotions more into the ACF and the broader policy studies field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze how emotions are constructed in a narrative that reports violence inflicted by a public security agent at a Women's Police Station and what discursive mechanisms are mobilized in this construction. The theoreticalanalytical framework is based on the understanding that emotions are a socio-cultural and that narrative is a situated discursiveinteractional practice. The study's methodology is qualitative and interpretivist, as well as considering an online ethnographic approach. The data was generated in an interaction via Google Meet between the researcher, an assisted woman and the president of a virtual support group for women survivors of gender-based violence. The results point to constructions that undermine preestablished social views about humanization within the Women's Police Stations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sexual satisfaction plays a fundamental role in the state of mind, considered essential for the health and wellbeing of the human being, in this context the state of mind refers to an emotional reaction of long duration and lower intensity, obtaining a response that involves somatic components. On the other hand, sexual satisfaction refers to the fact that it is a subjective perception of the human being, adjudged as an essential component in the quality of life. The main objective of the study was to determine the relationship between sexual satisfaction and mood in graduate students, for which a sample of 136 students was used. The research had a quantitative approach, so the "New Sexual Satisfaction Scale (NSSS)" and the "Mood Rating Scale (EVEA)" were used. In addition, it had a non-experimental descriptive correlational cross-sectional design. The results obtained determined the existence of a correlation between the variables, deducing that people who present stability in their mood experience a higher level of sexual satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study addresses the influence of neuroscience in the social sciences by examining the founding contributions of Antonio Damasio and Manuel Castells. In particular, the central role of emotions in decisionmaking, social behavior and power are highlighted, contributing with core categories that enables developing contemporary knowledge. These are theoretical perspectives that mark the significant change in problems and knowledge paradigms of the 21st century society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an ethnographically oriented field research based on a narrative and interpretative analysis. The objective is to understand the emotional labor of a female teacher in her daily practice as a key feature in the reality of teaching. Through participant observation, in-depth interviews and focus groups, combined with the students' notes in a diary, the author analyze narratively the emotional effort carried out in a pedagogical practice linked to caring as a knowledge of experience, which occurs in a sociocultural context of violence and abandonment. The emotional labor of teachers is analyzed in concrete experiences, where caring becomes more complex in the teacher's disposition to discern, from the depths and in the otherness of conviviality, between the many school actors in the daily school. The results describe experiences of both caring and carelessness, articulated in the performativity of the emotional labor of teachers according to specific contextual and situational conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following research aims to contribute from a feminist perspective the study of emotions and corporality as material elements that are articulated with social discourses. The methodology is ethnographic in nature (2017-2020 and 2022) on sex work in the Catalan-French cross-border area, together with 34 interviews with women who do sex work, stage professionals and other related people. Based on a reflective practice by the researchers, subjection and desubjection processes are detected that connect embodied narratives or affective-emotional experiences with discourses and social structures that perform and affect us. These discourses are legality, capitalist, heteropatriarchal and resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The decline of tragedy is one of the greatest tragedies of modernity. While many scholars exclaim that tragedy has been dead, Raymond Williams points out that it is not an eternal metaphysical event, but is plural and dynamic, a series of experiences, a tradition. Williams' rethinking of tragedy provides a historical perspective on the cultural meanings. What matters are the traditions, emotions, and experiences of the time in which the tragedy is set, and the superimposed series of accidents and imbalances that create this type of tragic experience. That is, tragedy is not a static narrative of grief, but a textual creativity. This article will examine this argument in the context of Chinese Revolutionary Drama. The White-Haired Girl (Bai Mao Nv) is a famous tragedy born a hundred years ago in China that depicts the tragic fate of the poor. During the Communist Revolution, it was adapted by the propaganda department of the Communist Party as a tragedy of class oppression and extended to the whole country as a symbol of emotional mobilization. After 1978, the tragedy was forgotten as an outdated revolutionary legacy. However, the experience and texts of the The White-Haired Girl are still active in Chinese social networks today. This complex process is not only historical but also emotional. The aims of this article are the following: (1) to reveal the constructive relationship between creativity, revolution, and emotion; (2) to present the process of interconstruction between tragedy as context and tragedy as metaphor for revolution; and (3) to place creativity in the context of specific cultural and historical changes and observe its dynamic significance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study analyzed emotional intelligence as a life skill in child development from daily experience in Preschool II children. Through a bibliographic review of theories, concepts such as the ability to recognize, understand and manage one's own emotions, as well as the ability to understand and influence others emotions, were explored to enhance child development through various situations and through everyday tasks such as, facing challenges, solving problems and interacting with peers and family. The methodology used was bibliographic, with a mixed approach that incorporated qualitative and quantitative data. Various instruments were used, such as an interview with the educator, parent surveys, an observation sheet and a checklist to identify the existing difficulty. As a result, the development of emotional intelligence proved to be deficient in the ability to express emotions in a healthy way, develop empathy towards others and establish social relationships, highlighting the relevance from everyday experience in the family and educational context. A training program was developed for the development of emotional intelligence as a life skill, proposing activities divided into three modules that include family games for social development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates the emotional and psychosocial scope behind the writing of Cautiverio feliz by Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán, proposing that leaving his personal experience in writing and offering it as a paradigm of the "ideal" servant to the interests of the Crown was a way of coming to terms with himself and resolving his vital contradiction. An upright and exemplary man, he had a suffered in life, and according to his subjective vision, his suffering totally undeserved. In this sense, his writing practice might have given him some comfort in conceiving it and projecting it as a symbolic resolution of this paradox, and thus somewhat appeasing his bitterness, freeing him from the deep discomfort that was eating away at his spirit from the frustration and anger that he felt for not being all that he thought he could have been and deserved to be. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The presidential elections in Colombia were marked by the use of TikTok as an electoral campaign strategy. The aim of this article is to analyze the use of this social network in the candidacies of Gustavo Petro and Rodolfo Hernández. Methodology: A qualitative approach is used, taking as working corpus two hundred contents made on TikTok by the two candidates from the official announcement of their candidacies until the end of the second round of elections. The information was organized with content analysis matrices and data processing in Python, from three conceptual categories in electoral campaigns: a. Intentions: creation of communicative pieces by the candidates based on the production possibilities of TikTok and hashtags; b. Strategies: political emotions and narratives of the candidates; c. Intentions: political emotions and narratives of the candidates; d. Intentions: political emotions and narratives of the candidates; e. Intentions: political emotions and narratives of the candidates. Strategies: political emotions and prototypical narratives that standardize the performance of campaigns, from the speeches issued in the social network; and c. Tools: users' interest in the electoral contest, taking as a reference Google trends reports and levels of engagement with the content. Results and Discussion: a. The personalization of the political leader predominates from an emotional and short story that does not exceed one minute of exposure and oriented to show himself close to the forms of multimedia interaction of TikTok; b. The narrative roles are focused in both cases with political emotions oriented to change and in which they are self-represented as heroes with the mission of bringing hope to their voters in the face of crisis and uncertainty scenarios; c. The accounts of the candidates surpass in popularity and interest the news related to spaces for debate of proposals and government plans. Although both campaigns had slight decreases in content production for the second round, Petro maintained a growth curve and level of engagement with users, while Hernandez reduced his interaction and impact. Conclusions: The article contributes to the literature on political campaigns with the arrival of TikTok and the increase in the use of social networks and digital platforms as marketing strategies in future electoral scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When advocating for policy change, coalitions rely on various elements and strategies of policy narratives, including emotions. However, past research on the Narrative Policy Framework, and more broadly on the policy process, has largely ignored the role of emotions. This paper argues that emotions, such as anger and fear, are central to how coalitions advocate for policy change. It explores the role of anger and fear in policy narratives by examining the oral testimony (n = 474) given over four legislative committee hearings in March 2019 concerning Colorado Senate Bill 19‐181. This bill changed the mission of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to prioritize protecting the environment and public health over oil and gas development. This research finds the coalition that successfully supported the bill used anger towards the oil and gas industry, while those that opposed the bill relied more on fear of the uncertain consequences of the bill. It also finds the coalition that opposed the bill relied on self‐characterization as heroes and victims, which was a failed strategy. The implications for this research on the Narrative Policy Framework and, more broadly, for the policy process and advocacy are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Emotional competencies have become a powerful tool for use in counselling practice that pursues high quality standards. Thus, counselling professionals are increasingly aware that emotions play an essential role within their practice. For this reason, the present study strives to identify perspectives of school counsellors working in the autonomous community of Galicia regarding the utility of emotional competencies in their day-to-day practice. A descriptive, non-experimental and quantitative study was conducted. A Likert scale was used to gather information as this tool enables specific and clear data to be collected quickly in order to provide a more complete description of the state of the issue. The quantitative data gathered provides valuable information pertaining to the most effective and useful emotional competencies for use in counselling practice and, therefore, favours efficient assessment of wellbeing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To describe and analyze, at various levels, the communication exchanges that took place in a group chat of intensivists using the instant messaging application WhatsApp during the first stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically on the day the first case was confirmed in Mexico. An intense situation showing the three dimensions of the theoretical framework is stood out. Materials and methods: A qualitative research of WhatsApp messages shared between 239 intensivists at the beginning of the pandemic, specifically throughout February 27, 2020. A narrative analysis was used to interpret a fragment of a chat. A schema with three dimensions (analysis of shared information, standards of social action in COVID-19 patient care and emotional expressions) was developed to code and classify the messages. Results: The communication exchanges via WhatsApp made it possible to give meaning to the emerging knowledge about COVID-19 in the narrative plots. They also influenced the implementation of appropriate actions in hospital environments and helped modulate emotions in front of the pandemic. In addition, it fostered bonds of solidarity and empathy between intensivists to face personal and social suffering with resilience. Conclusions: The chat messages reflected human relationships and the deep concerns of people in crisis situations. The study provided insight into the forms and meanings of communication exchanges with the use of technological devices in times of crisis to guide the implementation of actions in emerging situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic. WhatsApp responded to the need for information, with scientific and truthful data, about the pandemic. It was noted that intensivists benefited from instant messaging by cooperating in critical situations and experiences within the context of an evolving health crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I expose the effect of beach areas modernization in Mexico, that is, their transformation into international tourist destinations, as well as the role they played in the introduction of new social practices, in the revolution of customs, and in the change or reinforcement of emotional regulations that would be welcomed by some national visitors. My analysis focuses on Acapulco, the first international tourist center in the country. Through the study of its evolution as a vacation destination, and a brief tour of some films of the time and tourist propaganda that took place in the mentioned port, it is possible to observe the transfer of American "beach culture" to tourists from the Mexican coasts, the role they played in the resignification of the exhibition of the semi-naked bodies of young women and in the intergender interactions between members of said age group, which would have visible effects in the 1960s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]