Account Of Coping Research Articles

Postmigracyjny background i co z niego wynika. Rewolty tożsamościowe dzieci późnych przesiedleńców w prozie faktograficznej Emilii Smechowski, "My, super imigranci"

The Post-migrant Background and What it Entails: Identity Shifts in the Children of Late Repatriates in the Factual Prose of Emilia Smechowski, My, super imigranci The article analyzes an extensive nonfiction book by Emilia Smechowski, a Polish-born author who relocated to Germany as a child. The purpose of the examination is to determine how the migrant and post-migrant experience influenced the author and her characters. The paper looks at the consequences of the tensions resulting from the migrant background as regards genre choices (reportage/self-reportage/autobiography), thematic interests (the text grew between cultures and languages), and identity definitions. The book is approached as an identity and emancipation project of the speaking subject. It is an account of coping with difficult post-migrant experiences on a micro- and macro-scale (a Polish intelligentsia family vs. German public discourse).

‘Pulling the world in and pushing it away’: participating bodies and the concept of coping

In her lead article in this special issue, Monica Greco (2018) offers the concept of participating bodies as a ’possibility of conceiving bodies themselves—and bodily events such as disease/illness—as expressing values and perhaps even socially meaningful "preferences"’. Such a position seeks to avoid capitulation to a) an image of bodily processes as without values or responsiveness, object rather than participant; b) an image of human agents as unitary, self-knowing, sovereign choosers—unless ill. This article will explore this perspective as applied to the idea of coping. The article will explore strategies of everyday living, through particular consideration of Lauren Berlant’s reading of Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill. In her interpretation of the novel, Berlant assesses the kinds of problems for subjects and bodies that may be solved or managed through participation in or refraining from participation in thinking, food or sex. The account of coping and embodiment in Berlant’s reflections will then be placed in dialogue with findings by Alexandra Michel, who watched the process of physical burnout in investment banking associates during a 13-year cultural ethnography, observing as the bankers heeded or ignored the cues their bodies gave about the limits of feasible demands. The article as a whole offers an illustration of the value of Greco’s reflections for offering a fresh and valuable perspective on the concept of coping.

The surgical widow

A surgeon shares a deeply personal yet practical account of coping with the sudden loss of a spouse.

Coping With Intergroup Threat via Biased Attributions to Low Group Effort

Two studies demonstrate that, in order to cope with social identity threat, strongly but not weakly group-identified individuals make attributions of relatively poor group performance to low group effort rather than ability. However, this only takes place when such group members perceive negative group outcomes of intergroup comparisons as relatively illegitimate and unstable. Results demonstrate that such biased attributions were stronger for highly but not weakly identified participants when perceptions of the ingroup’s low status were induced to be illegitimate (but not when they were induced to be legitimate) – as their perceptions of the group low status as being unstable over time increased in parallel. This, in turn, ameliorated their subsequent affect. These findings point to a fairness-based account of coping with social identity threat through biased effort attributions: Perceived low effort on the part of the ingroup may suggest factors potentially within group control in the future ( Weiner, 1986 ) (as opposed to the less controllable low ability), which may in turn suggest that the ingroup does not deserve the self-threatening low status.

Racism and Planning

Abstract Racism shapes and influences what many planners do. Interviews with three minority planners illustrate three different objectives in the elimination of racism: equal opportunity, affirmative action, and cultural inclusion. Two detailed stories contrast a white professional's affirmative action efforts with an African-American female's account of coping with the subtle and painful indignities of institutional and cultural exclusion. The efforts individual planners take to avoid discriminating by race and to redress racial injustice are important. However, these efforts alone do not address the justice gap between African-American minorities and the white majority.