Rebecca J Erickson
Biographic Data
| ID | 136901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca J Erickson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca J |
| FAMILY NAME | Erickson |
| SIGNATURE | ERICKSON R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Akron |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 537 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Emotion Development in Context
This chapter demonstrates the importance of examining emotional-development processes as the embodiment of social context. Context is defined broadly, including the ways that the body and the self operate as key contexts for emotional development as well as interactional, institutional, and cultural contexts that help to shape how individuals learn and master the complexities of emotional experience and its management. The chapter illustrates the…
Psychological compassion climate
When does feeling in control benefit well-being? The boundary conditions of identity commitment and self-esteem
Capturing emotion with audio diaries
Research on emotion is fraught with methodological limitations, as feelings can have non-discrete, ephemeral, and ineffable qualities. Audio diaries offer a method for capturing the sequential and varied experience of emotions as they emerge from everyday life. Following theory and methodological development in the sociology of emotion, we examine how audio diaries might be used to capture (a) candid emotions that emerge spontaneously and may ref…
The Constant Caregiver
Work-family spillover is a central concept in the work and occupations literature, with prior research detailing its negative outcomes and gendered dimensions. With increased demands for careworkers and more men entering occupations such as nursing, we examine experiences and perceptions of spillover using qualitative data from a diverse sample of 48 US nurses. We find similarities across men and women in terms of exhaustion and stress as well as…
The Promise of Emotion Practice
Emotion scholars have documented the relevance of emotional labor for understanding exhaustion, burnout, and other negative outcomes among workers in care-based occupations. Yet, an emotion management framework that centers emotional labor is not without limitations. The authors use audio diary data from 48 acute care hospital nurses to illustrate how an emotion practice approach can empirically capture complex emotional processes beneath and bey…
I Can Never Be Too Comfortable
In this article, we examine how race and gender shape nurses' emotion practice. Based on audio diaries collected from 48 nurses within two Midwestern hospital systems in the United States, we illustrate the disproportionate emotional labor that emerges among women nurses of color in the white institutional space of American health care. In this environment, women of color experience an emotional double shift as a result of negotiating patient, co…
Motivation in caring labor
Affirming Selves through Styles of Care
Erving Goffman argued that workers in psychiatric wards must enforce bureaucratic rules that undermine the image that patients possess a self while also engaging in acts of deference that uphold it. Since that time, scholars have debated whether other hospital workers now face a similar dilemma as their organizations take on the more impersonal characteristics of a total institution while also promoting an ideology of patient-centered care. Altho…
Examining Men’s Status Shield and Status Bonus
Emotional display rules as work unit norms
Emotional labor theory has conceptualized emotional display rules as shared norms governing the expression of emotions at work. Using a sample of registered nurses working in different units of a hospital system, we provided the first empirical evidence that display rules can be represented as shared, unit-level beliefs. Additionally, controlling for the influence of dispositional affectivity, individual-level display rule perceptions, and emotio…
Emotional Labor and Health Care
We examine the literature on emotional labor and health care to demonstrate the potential for emotional labor research to inform how social and medical scientists think about health care and how examining healthcare contexts has contributed to the scientific understanding of emotional labor processes. In doing so, we first review the key terms and definitions that are used within the emotion management perspective and evaluate the ways in which p…
Mothers And Mastery
Using longitudinal data from a nationally representative sample of mothers, we specify the conditions under which the neighborhood context shapes the experience of mastery. In so doing, we extend the work of others who have shown that neighborhood perceptions influence one's sense of personal control over and above the effects of sociodemographic and objective neighborhood characteristics. Specifically, we demonstrate that the benefits to mastery…
Where the Ritual Is
Group Quizzes
Research has documented that collaborative learning groups improve student learning and increase the likelihood that students will have positive attitudes about both the subject matter and their peers. However, researchers know much less about how collaborative learning groups may influence student behavior and the extent to which their utility extends to testing as well as projects and papers. In an effort to address these gaps, we used quasi-ex…
Why emotion work matters
Attempting to explain why biological sex remains the primary predictor of household labor allocation, gender theorists have suggested that husbands and wives perform family work in ways that facilitate culturally appropriate constructions of gender. To date, however, researchers have yet to consider the theoretical and empirical significance of emotion work in their studies of the gendered division of household labor. Using survey data from 335 e…
Emotional Labor, Burnout, and Inauthenticity
A number of researchers have examined the conditions under which individuals perform emotional labor and the effects of such labor on psychological well-being. Much of this research has been limited to the experiences of service-sector workers in highly gender-segregated jobs. Prior survey research also tended to focus on dimensions of interactive work rather than on the actual management of feeling that is the foundation of the emotional labor p…
Social Perspectives on Emotion, Vol. 4
Doing for Others on the Job
Doing for Others on the Job: The Affective Requirements of Service Work, Gender, and Emotional Well-Being Get access Ferguson Heather Bulan, Ferguson Heather Bulan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Rebecca J. Erickson, Rebecca J. Erickson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Amy S. Wharton Amy S. Wharton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
Inauthenticity and Depression
Interactive service jobs are an increasingly important feature of the occupational landscape. Despite over a decade of rising employment within this segment of the economy, researchers are only beginning to specify the occupational conditions of service sector jobs and the mechanisms through which such conditions may affect mental health. Here we examine the experience of inauthenticity on the job as useful not only for understanding workers' res…
Speaking of Sadness
Men and Family Law
No abstract available for this article
The Importance of Authenticity for Self and Society
The transition from industrial to postindustrial society and from modern to postmodern culture has led to increased interest in authenticity. Such interest is widespread not only among those studying changes in social structure and culture but also among those who adhere to the social psychological tenet that self reflects society, and society, the self. In this article, I specify how issues of authenticity have become a pervasive part of our cul…
The Consequences of Caring
Sociologists of emotion have examined the ways that workers are required to manage their emotions on the job, while studies of family emotion work reveal the effort involved in providing emotional support at home. Analyzing data collected from married or cohabiting women hospital workers, we examine the relations between women's job and family emotion work and the effects of both on women's job-related well-being. Consistent with "scarcity" views…
Social Selves
Society and the Individual PART ONE: PERSONALITY AS SOCIAL DISCOURSE Language and the Social Self The Self in Everyday Communication Power, Knowledge and the Self PART TWO: PERSONALITY IN SOCIAL RELATIONS AND INTERDEPENDENCIES Social Relations and Personality Social Relations, Culture and the Self Power Relations, Interdependencies and the Civilized Personality Conclusion The Formation and Reconstruction of Social Selves
The Importance of Authenticity for Self and Society
The transition from industrial to postindustrial society and from modern to postmodern culture has led to increased interest in authenticity. Such interest is widespread not only among those studying changes in social structure and culture but also among those who adhere to the social psychological tenet that self reflects society, and society, the self. In this article, I specify how issues of authenticity have become a pervasive part of our cul…
Why emotion work matters
Attempting to explain why biological sex remains the primary predictor of household labor allocation, gender theorists have suggested that husbands and wives perform family work in ways that facilitate culturally appropriate constructions of gender. To date, however, researchers have yet to consider the theoretical and empirical significance of emotion work in their studies of the gendered division of household labor. Using survey data from 335 e…
Reconceptualizing Family Work
Cette analyse s'inscrit dans le cadre de l'etude de l'impact du travail familial des maris et des epouses sur leur bien-etre personnel et conjugal. Afin de mieux comprendre la relation entre division du travail familial et qualite des relations conjugales, cet article propose d'etendre la notion de travail familial, dans lequel l'A. inclut le travail emotionnel a cote du travail constitue par les tâches menageres et le soin apporte aux enfants
Emotional Labor, Burnout, and Inauthenticity
A number of researchers have examined the conditions under which individuals perform emotional labor and the effects of such labor on psychological well-being. Much of this research has been limited to the experiences of service-sector workers in highly gender-segregated jobs. Prior survey research also tended to focus on dimensions of interactive work rather than on the actual management of feeling that is the foundation of the emotional labor p…
Examining Men’s Status Shield and Status Bonus
Doing for Others on the Job
Doing for Others on the Job: The Affective Requirements of Service Work, Gender, and Emotional Well-Being Get access Ferguson Heather Bulan, Ferguson Heather Bulan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Rebecca J. Erickson, Rebecca J. Erickson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Amy S. Wharton Amy S. Wharton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
Inauthenticity and Depression
Interactive service jobs are an increasingly important feature of the occupational landscape. Despite over a decade of rising employment within this segment of the economy, researchers are only beginning to specify the occupational conditions of service sector jobs and the mechanisms through which such conditions may affect mental health. Here we examine the experience of inauthenticity on the job as useful not only for understanding workers' res…
The Consequences of Caring
Sociologists of emotion have examined the ways that workers are required to manage their emotions on the job, while studies of family emotion work reveal the effort involved in providing emotional support at home. Analyzing data collected from married or cohabiting women hospital workers, we examine the relations between women's job and family emotion work and the effects of both on women's job-related well-being. Consistent with "scarcity" views…
Emotional Labor and Health Care
We examine the literature on emotional labor and health care to demonstrate the potential for emotional labor research to inform how social and medical scientists think about health care and how examining healthcare contexts has contributed to the scientific understanding of emotional labor processes. In doing so, we first review the key terms and definitions that are used within the emotion management perspective and evaluate the ways in which p…
Mothers And Mastery
Using longitudinal data from a nationally representative sample of mothers, we specify the conditions under which the neighborhood context shapes the experience of mastery. In so doing, we extend the work of others who have shown that neighborhood perceptions influence one's sense of personal control over and above the effects of sociodemographic and objective neighborhood characteristics. Specifically, we demonstrate that the benefits to mastery…
I Can Never Be Too Comfortable
In this article, we examine how race and gender shape nurses' emotion practice. Based on audio diaries collected from 48 nurses within two Midwestern hospital systems in the United States, we illustrate the disproportionate emotional labor that emerges among women nurses of color in the white institutional space of American health care. In this environment, women of color experience an emotional double shift as a result of negotiating patient, co…
The Promise of Emotion Practice
Emotion scholars have documented the relevance of emotional labor for understanding exhaustion, burnout, and other negative outcomes among workers in care-based occupations. Yet, an emotion management framework that centers emotional labor is not without limitations. The authors use audio diary data from 48 acute care hospital nurses to illustrate how an emotion practice approach can empirically capture complex emotional processes beneath and bey…
The Constant Caregiver
Work-family spillover is a central concept in the work and occupations literature, with prior research detailing its negative outcomes and gendered dimensions. With increased demands for careworkers and more men entering occupations such as nursing, we examine experiences and perceptions of spillover using qualitative data from a diverse sample of 48 US nurses. We find similarities across men and women in terms of exhaustion and stress as well as…
Motivation in caring labor
Capturing emotion with audio diaries
Research on emotion is fraught with methodological limitations, as feelings can have non-discrete, ephemeral, and ineffable qualities. Audio diaries offer a method for capturing the sequential and varied experience of emotions as they emerge from everyday life. Following theory and methodological development in the sociology of emotion, we examine how audio diaries might be used to capture (a) candid emotions that emerge spontaneously and may ref…
Group Quizzes
Research has documented that collaborative learning groups improve student learning and increase the likelihood that students will have positive attitudes about both the subject matter and their peers. However, researchers know much less about how collaborative learning groups may influence student behavior and the extent to which their utility extends to testing as well as projects and papers. In an effort to address these gaps, we used quasi-ex…
Where the Ritual Is
Affirming Selves through Styles of Care
Erving Goffman argued that workers in psychiatric wards must enforce bureaucratic rules that undermine the image that patients possess a self while also engaging in acts of deference that uphold it. Since that time, scholars have debated whether other hospital workers now face a similar dilemma as their organizations take on the more impersonal characteristics of a total institution while also promoting an ideology of patient-centered care. Altho…
The decision to leave an abusive relationship
Social Selves
Society and the Individual PART ONE: PERSONALITY AS SOCIAL DISCOURSE Language and the Social Self The Self in Everyday Communication Power, Knowledge and the Self PART TWO: PERSONALITY IN SOCIAL RELATIONS AND INTERDEPENDENCIES Social Relations and Personality Social Relations, Culture and the Self Power Relations, Interdependencies and the Civilized Personality Conclusion The Formation and Reconstruction of Social Selves
Reconceptualizing Family Work
Cette analyse s'inscrit dans le cadre de l'etude de l'impact du travail familial des maris et des epouses sur leur bien-etre personnel et conjugal. Afin de mieux comprendre la relation entre division du travail familial et qualite des relations conjugales, cet article propose d'etendre la notion de travail familial, dans lequel l'A. inclut le travail emotionnel a cote du travail constitue par les tâches menageres et le soin apporte aux enfants
Men and Family Law
No abstract available for this article
The Importance of Authenticity for Self and Society
The transition from industrial to postindustrial society and from modern to postmodern culture has led to increased interest in authenticity. Such interest is widespread not only among those studying changes in social structure and culture but also among those who adhere to the social psychological tenet that self reflects society, and society, the self. In this article, I specify how issues of authenticity have become a pervasive part of our cul…
The Consequences of Caring
Sociologists of emotion have examined the ways that workers are required to manage their emotions on the job, while studies of family emotion work reveal the effort involved in providing emotional support at home. Analyzing data collected from married or cohabiting women hospital workers, we examine the relations between women's job and family emotion work and the effects of both on women's job-related well-being. Consistent with "scarcity" views…
Speaking of Sadness
Doing for Others on the Job
Doing for Others on the Job: The Affective Requirements of Service Work, Gender, and Emotional Well-Being Get access Ferguson Heather Bulan, Ferguson Heather Bulan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Rebecca J. Erickson, Rebecca J. Erickson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Amy S. Wharton Amy S. Wharton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
Inauthenticity and Depression
Interactive service jobs are an increasingly important feature of the occupational landscape. Despite over a decade of rising employment within this segment of the economy, researchers are only beginning to specify the occupational conditions of service sector jobs and the mechanisms through which such conditions may affect mental health. Here we examine the experience of inauthenticity on the job as useful not only for understanding workers' res…
Social Perspectives on Emotion, Vol. 4
Emotional Labor, Burnout, and Inauthenticity
A number of researchers have examined the conditions under which individuals perform emotional labor and the effects of such labor on psychological well-being. Much of this research has been limited to the experiences of service-sector workers in highly gender-segregated jobs. Prior survey research also tended to focus on dimensions of interactive work rather than on the actual management of feeling that is the foundation of the emotional labor p…
Why emotion work matters
Attempting to explain why biological sex remains the primary predictor of household labor allocation, gender theorists have suggested that husbands and wives perform family work in ways that facilitate culturally appropriate constructions of gender. To date, however, researchers have yet to consider the theoretical and empirical significance of emotion work in their studies of the gendered division of household labor. Using survey data from 335 e…
Group Quizzes
Research has documented that collaborative learning groups improve student learning and increase the likelihood that students will have positive attitudes about both the subject matter and their peers. However, researchers know much less about how collaborative learning groups may influence student behavior and the extent to which their utility extends to testing as well as projects and papers. In an effort to address these gaps, we used quasi-ex…
Mothers And Mastery
Using longitudinal data from a nationally representative sample of mothers, we specify the conditions under which the neighborhood context shapes the experience of mastery. In so doing, we extend the work of others who have shown that neighborhood perceptions influence one's sense of personal control over and above the effects of sociodemographic and objective neighborhood characteristics. Specifically, we demonstrate that the benefits to mastery…
Where the Ritual Is
Emotional Labor and Health Care
We examine the literature on emotional labor and health care to demonstrate the potential for emotional labor research to inform how social and medical scientists think about health care and how examining healthcare contexts has contributed to the scientific understanding of emotional labor processes. In doing so, we first review the key terms and definitions that are used within the emotion management perspective and evaluate the ways in which p…
Emotional display rules as work unit norms
Emotional labor theory has conceptualized emotional display rules as shared norms governing the expression of emotions at work. Using a sample of registered nurses working in different units of a hospital system, we provided the first empirical evidence that display rules can be represented as shared, unit-level beliefs. Additionally, controlling for the influence of dispositional affectivity, individual-level display rule perceptions, and emotio…
Examining Men’s Status Shield and Status Bonus
Motivation in caring labor
Affirming Selves through Styles of Care
Erving Goffman argued that workers in psychiatric wards must enforce bureaucratic rules that undermine the image that patients possess a self while also engaging in acts of deference that uphold it. Since that time, scholars have debated whether other hospital workers now face a similar dilemma as their organizations take on the more impersonal characteristics of a total institution while also promoting an ideology of patient-centered care. Altho…
I Can Never Be Too Comfortable
In this article, we examine how race and gender shape nurses' emotion practice. Based on audio diaries collected from 48 nurses within two Midwestern hospital systems in the United States, we illustrate the disproportionate emotional labor that emerges among women nurses of color in the white institutional space of American health care. In this environment, women of color experience an emotional double shift as a result of negotiating patient, co…
When does feeling in control benefit well-being? The boundary conditions of identity commitment and self-esteem
Capturing emotion with audio diaries
Research on emotion is fraught with methodological limitations, as feelings can have non-discrete, ephemeral, and ineffable qualities. Audio diaries offer a method for capturing the sequential and varied experience of emotions as they emerge from everyday life. Following theory and methodological development in the sociology of emotion, we examine how audio diaries might be used to capture (a) candid emotions that emerge spontaneously and may ref…
The Constant Caregiver
Work-family spillover is a central concept in the work and occupations literature, with prior research detailing its negative outcomes and gendered dimensions. With increased demands for careworkers and more men entering occupations such as nursing, we examine experiences and perceptions of spillover using qualitative data from a diverse sample of 48 US nurses. We find similarities across men and women in terms of exhaustion and stress as well as…
The Promise of Emotion Practice
Emotion scholars have documented the relevance of emotional labor for understanding exhaustion, burnout, and other negative outcomes among workers in care-based occupations. Yet, an emotion management framework that centers emotional labor is not without limitations. The authors use audio diary data from 48 acute care hospital nurses to illustrate how an emotion practice approach can empirically capture complex emotional processes beneath and bey…
Psychology (26 works) · Social Psychology (24 works) · Emotional Labor in Professions (15 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (10 works) · Emotional labor (9 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Burnout (6 works)