Autio, T.;
Rissanen, S.;
Hämäläinen, J.;
(2025)
Emotions in spouse caregiving: a study based on written stories.
International Journal of Social Pedagogy
, 14
(1)
, Article 5. 10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2025.v14.x.005.
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Abstract
Research on caregiving has traditionally focused on coping with negative life changes. This article aims to widen the scope from the challenges caregivers encounter in their lives to the emotions they experience in caring, and the situations associated with them. The article’s approach is predominantly social pedagogical. We discuss social pedagogy as a pedagogical theoretical orientation and a way of thinking that emphasise the social basis of human growth and education. Social pedagogy provides a useful lens for examining caregivers’ personal growth, especially how inclusion, well-being and social functional capacity can be promoted, thus preventing and alleviating social exclusion. In this article, the focus is on emotions in everyday encounters and relations that have an important coping function for caregivers. The data came from the written stories of spouse caregivers, and the method of analysis was joint abductive and inductive content analysis. A modified version of the Basic Emotion Scale was used to identify and classify the emotions in the written stories. These emotions were grouped according to the following themes: happiness, sadness, fear, anger and guilt. The encounters associated with the emotions were also analysed and classified. As a result, the role of emotions as key markers of well-being and important life changes was discovered. Emotions are important indicators that show us what needs special attention in everyday caregiving encounters. This information can be used by social and health-care professionals seeking ways to support and empower caregivers.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Emotions in spouse caregiving: a study based on written stories |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2025.v14.x.005 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2025.v14.x.0... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2025, Tiina Autio, Sari Rissanen and Juha Hämäläinen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | caregiving, emotions, social pedagogy, spouse caregivers, personal growth, well-being |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10208957 |
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