Making Sense of Change

Emotive-Cognitive Reframing of Young People in Post-crisis Spain

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ID3002913
AutoresNina Margies (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume18
Fascículo2
Páginas238-257
Data de publicação2024-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCultural Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1749-9755 • E-ISSN: 1749-9763
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/17499755241234701
OpenAlexW4396639738
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas53

This article explores how people interpret deep transformations, how they integrate them into their everyday meaning-making and what role emotion work plays therein. To do so, the article draws on the experiences of young people (n=68) in post-crisis Spain and their narratives of change. In the wake of the severe economic crisis of 2008, many of them had lost their jobs as well as their future prospects. They experienced a mismatch between their expectations of their (working) life and the actual opportunities on the precarious labour market. Disappointed expectations and crumbling future prospects made it necessary for them to search for explanations and coping strategies. The article proposes the concept of emotive-cognitive reframing to capture the ways in which the young people adapted their emotions, ideas and expectations and the different forms and directions this could take. It shows that emotive-cognitive reframing was a complex and embodied process of emotional and cognitive work in which existing patterns of explanation were questioned and partly replaced by new ones. If these explanations were individualistic in nature, people considered their emotions and how they dealt with them to be a personal matter. In this case, emotion work was more about appeasing and suppressing emotions rather than channelling them into action. If the explanations were systemic, though, emotion work consisted primarily of turning emotions inside out and redirecting them from the individual towards external actors and structural conditions laying the seeds for collective mobilisation

Cognition · Cognitive reframing · Embodied cognition · Emotion work · Emotive · Epistemology · Narrative · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics