Emotion work

For emotion work sold for a salary, see Emotional labor.

Emotion work is understood as the art of trying to change in degree or quality an emotion or feeling.[1]

Emotion work may be defined as the management of one's own feelings, or work done in an effort to maintain a relationship;[2] there is dispute as to whether emotion work is only work done regulating one’s own emotion, or extends to performing the emotional work for others.[3]

  1. ^ Ferrara, Alessandro (1993), "Rousseau's psychology of the self: C Excursus on authenticity", in Ferrara, Alessandro (ed.), Modernity and authenticity: a study in the social and ethical thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Albany: State University of New York, p. 87, ISBN 9780791412367.
  2. ^ Cook, Alicia; Berger, Peggy (April 2000). "Predictors of emotion work and household labor among dual-earner couples". cyfernet.org. CYFAR Program, University of Minnesota. Archived from the original on 1 May 2009. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
  3. ^ Oliker, Stacey J. (1989), "Women friends and marriage work", in Oliker, Stacey J. (ed.), Best friends and marriage: exchange among women, Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 124, ISBN 9780520063921.