Attitude and passion: becoming a teacher in early childhood education and care

By focusing on a collective aesthetics based on sensation and affect, researchers, especially in Stockholm, Sweden, are exploring a pedagogy that opens up space for assemblages of desire, acknowledging the expressions of children who transform themselves and their milieus into a weave of bodies, spaces, signs and media. By analysing this pedagogy, against the background of the theories of Henri Wallon and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, I wish to investigate the concept of a ‘thinner skin mentality’. This willingness to transgress one’s own stabilising attitude, to move towards a greater sensitivity to relational and situational affectivity when accompanying the learning of children, may provide a point of reference for a preschool teacher qualification.     

Audio-visual production and shortcomings of distribution in organisation studies

This article considers the relation of audio-visual media to research in organisation studies, a scholarly market of the cultural economy. Guided theoretically by affect, audio-visual media place emphasis on mental and physical sensations that most organisation studies research, whether objective or subjective, tends to overlook or only imply. Too often, underlying disciplinary assumptions impose controls that are incompatible with the transmission of affect. Now, it is the case that those who have accumulated cultural capital within the field privilege conventions already found in the logic of the printed word. At issue is the implication that the culture of print effectually suppresses experimentation with audio-visual media as an alternative form of presentation. To illustrate the problem, I draw on first-hand experience of efforts to establish the research contribution of a short film.     

Travelling and sticky affects: Exploring teens and sexualized cyberbullying through a Butlerian-Deleuzian-Guattarian lens

In this paper we combine the thinking of Deleuze and Guattari (1984, 1987) with Judith Butler's (1990, 1993, 2004, 2009) work to follow the rhizomatic becomings of young people's affective relations in a range of on- and off-line school spaces. In particular we explore how events that may be designated as sexual cyberbullying are constituted and how they are mediated by technology (such as texting or in/through social networking sites). Drawing on findings from two different studies looking at teens’ uses of and experiences with social networking sites, Arto in Denmark, and Bebo in the UK, we use this approach to think about how affects flow, are distributed, and become fixed in assemblages. We map how affects are manoeuvred and potentially disrupted by young people, suggesting that in the incidences discussed affects travel as well as stick in points of fixation. We argue that we need to grasp both affective flow and fixity in order to gain knowledge of how subjectification of the gendered/classed/racialised/sexualised body emerges. A Butlerian-Deleuzian-Guattarian frame helps us to map some of these affective complexities that shape sexualized cyberbully events; and to recognize technologically mediated lines of flight when subjectifications are at least temporarily disrupted and new terms of recognition and intelligibility staked out.     

情感、工作满意度及幸福感的关系研究

选用国外常用的规范量表,以城市不同行业员工为被试对象进行问卷调查并分析,结果发现:消极情感与工作满意度的9个维度全部负相关,而积极情感仅与其中的主管领导满意度、回报满意度、同事满意度、工作本身满意度、沟通满意度5个维度正相关;积极情感和消极情感分别与幸福感正相关和负相关。薪酬满意度、工作本身满意度支持工作满意度与幸福感之间外溢关系的假说;而其他7个维度支持两者关系的分割假说。     

团队成员积极情感特质对工作满意度的影响

随着团队协作研究的深入,团队成员交换和领导成员交换等团队交换变量越来越受关注。本研究对团队交换关系在团队成员积极情感特质与工作满意度间的作用进行了探索,并分析了回报警觉性的调节作用。结果表明:团队交换关系在积极情感特质和工作满意度间起部分中介作用,回报警觉性调节了团队交换关系在积极情感特质与工作满意度关系中的中介作用。研究结论对理解团队成员积极情感特质在组织关系中的作用具有借鉴意义。     

孔子仁学理路的内在矛盾：从“家国同构”到“家国错位”

孔子仁学的思想理路的内在矛盾,集中表现在孝与忠的关系上。孝与忠在情感层面的兼容,构成其＂家国同构＂的社会理想;在践行层面的对立,又构成其＂家国错位＂的理论偏至,其结果是：一方面社会家庭化了,另一方面家庭社会化了。仁学具有的情感性与践行性矛盾统一的本质特性,决定其思想理路必从＂家国同构＂走向＂家国错位＂。     

Predicting and explaining students’ stress with the Demand–Control Model: does neuroticism also matter?

University students often report high stress levels, and studies even suggest a recent increase. However, there is a lack of theoretically based research on the structural conditions that influence students’ perceived stress. The current study compared the effects of Karasek’s demand–control dimensions with the influence of neuroticism to address environmental and individual characteristics related to stress. Two points of measurement were included: T1 in the middle of the term and T2 during the examination period. Participants were 146 psychology students at two German universities (M_age = 22.6 years). We applied an adapted version of Karasek’s Job Content Questionnaire, a self-developed stress scale, and the 21-item Big-Five-Inventory. At T1, both neuroticism and demands significantly predicted stress (total adjusted R² = .40), although relative weights analyses indicated that the contribution of demands was more pronounced (relative importance: 63%). Longitudinally, controlling for stress at T1, the demand–control dimensions explained additional variance in the increased stress level at T2, whereas neuroticism did not contribute additionally (R² = .52). Results indicate that self-reports on stress among university students are not only a reflection of underlying negative affectivity. We conclude that perceived stress can be explained by structural conditions rather than personality, providing opportunities to reduce stress among students.