The need for an emotional work survey

摘要: Surveys of emotions offer great potential to understand micro-social dynamics and wellbeing not only within small groups, but nations as a whole. The most commonly reported in surveys – happiness, satisfaction, loneliness, etc hint at the social experiences people from different class, ethnic, marital backgrounds, etc. However, such questions are usually generalised ‘whole life’ or domain-specific (eg work, family, etc) assessments. They unable capture interaction, power, status, consequently lose much interplay emotions. Many ‘social’ guilt, shame, anger, envy captured, nor is considerable work done managing situations, gender context that surrounds this. This paper identifies several ‘missing’ often subject emotion particularly amongst women, including anger (Kemper 1990; Holmes 2004), shame Scheff 1991), jealousy/ (Clanton 1996). Building on innovative Kahneman Krueger’s (2006), it also suggests appropriate method for measuring common undertaken actual settings run time-use survey with open-ended about Such would ask respondents report which they felt their own words, whether need hide alter these emotions, random selection time-based episodes any an ‘audit’ provide valuable data substantiate many theories promulgated by sociologists emotion, reveal important dimensions households families.