Care, commerce, and conflict: A multimodal discourse analysis of dietary guidance for gastrointestinal cancer survivors on Xiaohongshu.

Ethics of transference care: Navigating personhood, data, and the dead in corneal donation.

Feelings and emotions associated with job searching and working amongst people receiving treatment for alcohol and other drugs.

The photograph, the chair, and the space between: A nurse manager's reflection on rules, warmth, and what we miss.

Emotional labour has long been associated with personal and organizational outcomes such as burnout. However, theoretically dichotomising regulation into surface and deep acting may constrain the ecological validity of research as iterative and person-centered approaches to emotion regulation are not considered. Furthermore, recent research suggests self-compassion and experience may predict emotional labour regulation in psychologists, but specific mechanisms accounting for this relationship are unknown. We addressed these concerns by examining how self-compassion and career experience predict latent profiles of emotional labour regulation strategies in psychologists and subsequent burnout. We performed latent profile analysis, multinomial logistic regression, and a one-way between-groups ANOVA on data from 232 international psychologists across two time points. We found a similar but not identical pattern of latent profiles when compared to previous studies in different occupations. Self-compassion and career experience significantly predicted subsequent profile membership and profiles characterized by less surface acting and more authentic and genuine emotional displays had statistically significantly lower levels of emotional exhaustion. Our findings suggest that self-compassion promotes adaptive emotional labour regulation strategies in psychologists, that experienced clinicians express emotion more authentically, and that regulation that involves authentic and genuine expression is linked with lower emotional exhaustion.

Infertility affects an estimated 15% of couples worldwide, with male factors contributing to nearly half of the cases. Yet infertility continues to be culturally framed as a woman's problem, positioning women as primary targets of medical investigation and social blame. This study employs a Critical Interpretive Synthesis across sociology, nursing, psychology, anthropology and bioethics to theorise male infertility stigma as a relational inequity rather than an individual burden. To strengthen the empirical grounding of this conceptual analysis, we incorporated a structured secondary analysis of published qualitative quotations from men experiencing infertility. These first‑order accounts illuminate how men narrate stigma, masculinity and relational strain, providing empirical illustrations of four relational mechanisms-concealment, blame transfer, emotional labour and role reconfiguration-through which men's spoiled masculinity invisibly restructures women's roles in reproductive care. By foregrounding women's invisible burdens, the analysis advances a relational sociology of health with direct implications for nursing practice. The findings demonstrate how nurses encounter and mediate stigma spillover in clinical encounters, family systems and community contexts. Applied implications include dyadic, stigma‑sensitive interventions, couple‑centred care pathways and structural reforms that challenge cultural scripts linking masculinity to fertility. Conceptualising infertility stigma as a relational inequity not only extends stigma theory but also strengthens nursing inquiry into gender, caregiving and reproductive justice.

The occupational well-being of nurse educators, its related challenges, stressors and their reduction in work life balance-A systematic mixed-methods study.

No Vax, No Visit (NVNV) is a parent-led socially negotiated health protection practice aimed at reducing newborns' risk of exposure to pertussis by encouraging visitors to be up to date with tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis (Tdap/dTpa) vaccination prior to contact. While consistent with Australian cocooning guidance, NVNV shifts responsibility for communication and enforcement onto parents. Its psychosocial impacts and health promotion implications remain poorly understood. A cross-sectional mixed-methods online survey was conducted with Australian parents of children under 5 years (n = 166). Measures included NVNV awareness and adoption, visitor resistance, psychological distress (K10), and social connectedness. Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics, χ2 tests, t-tests, ANOVA, and regression models. Open-text responses (n = 456; 152 participants) were analysed using directed content analysis informed by the WHO Behavioural and Social Drivers of Vaccination framework and the socioecological model. NVNV adoption was high (80.1%), and healthcare provider endorsement and lower vaccine hesitancy were strong predictors of uptake. Over one quarter of parents (27.7%) reported resistance from relatives or close contacts. Parents who experienced resistance reported significantly higher psychological distress than those who did not. Qualitative findings revealed emotional labour, interpersonal conflict, and reduced practical and emotional support when vaccination was declined. NVNV is widely adopted but can generate psychosocial strain when parents encounter resistance, with distress driven by interpersonal conflict rather than NVNV adoption itself. SO WHAT?: Health promotion should move beyond individualised responsibility by providing consistent public health messaging on contact vaccination, communication tools for parents, and equitable access to adult immunisation services, supporting families to protect newborns without compromising wellbeing or social support.

When birth meets war: A focused ethnography of midwives' experiences in a hospital birth unit during wartime in Northern Israel.

Latent profiles of teacher Well-Being: Linking emotional labor strategies to classroom climate across a national sample in China

Faking care, fading care: Hierarchical plateau triggers quiet quitting and shifts surface acting and deep acting among college counselors, moderated by career inaction.

<p><span lang="pl" style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">The article examines the interdependence between pay disadvantage and the formation of informal hierarchies in residential social care homes (Domy Pomocy Społecznej, DPS) in Poland, with particular attention to the feminised character of care work. It assumes that wages-often close to the minimum wage and only weakly differentiated across positions-have not only an economic but also a symbolic function: they communicate the level of recognition granted to care work. The analysis draws on a qualitative study grounded in constructivist grounded theory (Charmaz), combining participant observation in a DPS in Silesia (2023) with 20 in-depth interviews (2023–2024) with women employed in different occupational roles. The findings indicate that wage compression and “role expansion” (multi-tasking, para-medical tasks and emotional labour) contribute to conflicts over prestige, visibility of work, and organisational agency. The article shows how respondents’ narratives link remuneration to an order of recognition, thereby revealing mechanisms through which informal hierarchies are reproduced in institutional long-term care.</span></span></span></p>

This study examines the working and learning dynamics between resident doctors and senior nurses, with a focus on identifying factors that influence how resident doctors can learn more effectively from experienced nurses to enhance their training. A scoping review of current literature related to working experience between resident doctors and nurses was conducted using the PRISMA2009 checklist. This scoping review followed the JBI Preferred Reporting for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis for Scoping Review Checklists. Medline, CINAHL, PubMed and Scopus databases were searched. The review used key terms around junior doctors/resident doctors/trainee doctors, nurses, and interprofessional collaboration and learning. 22 articles across different country settings spanning 9-years were included in the final review. Critical realism-informed thematic analysis was used, and three themes were developed regarding forces shaping learning between resident doctors: organisational factors, professional factors and personal factors. These findings suggest that interprofessional workplace collaboration, learning and mentoring can take place between resident doctors and experienced nurses. However, the findings suggest that in order to be most effective, programmes should be formalised, should take workload and emotional labour into account, and should critically examine the professional norms and intersectional factors which might be detrimental to learning relationships.

ABSTRACT The rise of ‘dadvertising’, campaigns featuring emotionally engaged, nurturing fathers, highlights how commercial media commodifies masculinity. While studies have accumulated in Anglo-American and Northern European contexts, and a growing body of Turkish scholarship has examined advertising and masculinity, the intersection of paternal emotion work and dadvertising remains underexplored in Turkish scholarship. This paper addresses that gap by examining paternal emotion work in Turkish Father’s Day advertising (2020–2025). Drawing on Hochschild’s distinction between organizational emotional labour and domestic emotion work, Connell’s theory of hegemonic masculinity and Gill’s postfeminist sensibility, the study identifies four discursive formations. First, selective and bounded emotion work stages paternal care as episodic rather than routine. Second, emotional exceptionalism renders fathers’ caregiving heroic. Third, the commodification of paternal affect converts emotional expressiveness into brand capital. Fourth, postfeminist displacement uses individual-choice narratives to obscure the gendered care gap. Ultimately, Turkish dadvertising produces a modernized image of fatherhood that simultaneously reinscribes care inequality by framing men’s emotional participation as exceptional rather than quotidian. The findings contribute to feminist media studies by demonstrating how postfeminist advertising logic operates within a patriarchal, semi-peripheral context and by clarifying crucial conceptual boundaires between emotion work and emotional labour.

ABSTRACT This article explores how Lithuanian aid organizers construct practices of togetherness and hospitality in supporting Ukrainian refugees. Using the theoretical frameworks of Geselligkeit and conviviality, it reveals how aid workers construct inclusive relationships through empathy, symbolic equality, and humanistic leadership, as well as institutional dimensions. Based on qualitative research, the findings suggest that integration is not only structural, but also rooted in everyday moral acts. In post-Soviet contexts, emotional inclusion often occurs outside formal systems, highlighting the importance of informal solidarity and emotional labor. These practices expose a persistent tension between bureaucratic rationality and human empathy, reflecting both the legacy of institutional coldness and the emergence of culturally sensitive models of integration grounded in shared humanity and mutual care.

This qualitative study explores how clinicians with lived experience (LE) of eating disorders (EDs) view their experiences of identity, boundaries, and recovery within NHS England services. Participants (N = 9) were healthcare professionals in NHS England ED services, recruited as part of a wider qualitative study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. Four themes were identified: (1) Lived experience as a source of professional motivation versus perfectionistic pressure; (2) Recovery as identity work; (3) Emotional labor, resonance, and self-disclosure; and (4) LE-informed reflections on ED services. LE offered empathy, connection, and optimism, but also required ongoing emotional monitoring, boundary management, and negotiation of professional identity. Findings highlight the value and complexity of LE in ED care and underscore the need for supportive supervision and organizational cultures that recognize both strengths and vulnerabilities associated with integrating LE in practice.

ABSTRACT This in-depth interview study explores how Arab-Palestinian adolescents in Israel utilize TikTok to navigate power and identity within their families. Situated within their context as a marginalized minority facing generational tensions and stereotypical media representation, the study theorizes the adolescent role as a ‘digital-cultural broker’ mediating between conflicting social worlds. Based on in-depth interviews with 20 adolescents (aged 14-17) and their parents, the analysis reveals four key domains of agency: wielding digital expertise as relational power; navigating family honour through ‘digital code-switching’ and audience segmentation; initiating communication as a form of emotional labour; and co-constructing authority through constant negotiation. The study concludes that TikTok is a critical site where youth perform agency, acting as a catalyst on pre-existing family dynamics. Social media facilitates the forging of a new parent–adolescent ‘relational contract’ defined by fluidity, negotiation and a youth-managed ‘conditional transparency’. In this dynamic, teens act as essential digital-cultural brokers, co-creating a family structure adapted to their hybrid reality and moving beyond a legacy of passive media consumption. This highlights the sophisticated social work young people perform online to manage their complex lives.

Comparative effectiveness of individual-level psychosocial interventions for nurse burnout and its core dimensions: A systematic review and network meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT For many Muslim immigrant girls in U.S. schools, mathematics is shaped by cultural and social dynamics that misinterpret their ways of knowing. This study offers a critical analysis of digital storytelling, as a perspective rarely applied in mathematics education. Drawing on narrative inquiry with five Muslim immigrant girls at a Midwestern community centre, we examine how creating digital mathematics stories becomes a means of negotiating belonging, naming epistemic injustice, and reclaiming interpretive authority. Using story circles as decolonial spaces, we analyse digital stories and discussions through lenses of belonging, epistemic injustice, counter-storytelling, and intersectionality. Their narratives show how school practices systematically misrecognise their mathematical competence, cultural knowledge, and emotional labour. Through digital storytelling, participants authored counter-narratives that challenged deficit framings and reframed mathematics as a space of identity and resistance. We argue that digital storytelling functions as an epistemic intervention, expanding whose stories are heard, and what mathematics can become.

Overview Games have the potential to engage a wider public with archaeology, but popular products also continue to perpetuate misconceptions about the past. One potential solution is for archaeologists, heritage professionals, and historians to act as consultants in the process of game design. However, there has been little published about what consultation involves, particularly with the understanding that games with archaeological themes often rely heavily on colonial narratives, as well as stereotypes that affect descendant communities. In this digital review, I draw on my experiences as an archaeologist and cultural consultant within the tabletop games industry to highlight how representation, expertise, and positionality are considerations for any scholar who is solicited for consultation on a commercial product. I also address the unpaid, underpaid, and emotional labor that lurks within an industry reliant on personal passions and work characterized as fun. I conclude with recommendations that focus on reducing harm in the present while playing with the past.