An exploration of resilience amongst working mothers
- Neethling, Lieneke Murray, Working mothers
- Authors: Neethling, Lieneke Murray , Working mothers
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: Motherhood , Resilience (Personality trait) , Work-life balance
- Language: English
- Type: Masters (Thesis)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/237777 , uj:24368
- Description: M.Phil. , Abstract: In this postmodernist study, resilient working mothers are studied by means of an autoethnographical strategy. I accordingly examined a small group of South African working mothers’ experiences, including my own, by blending an evocative and artful presentation with theory and analysis. In assimilating subjective personal experience and the broader sociocultural reality, I offer insights into the social world of resilient working mothers, the challenges they experience, and how they manage to thrive despite adversity. As a mother who worked as a minister, I was uniquely situated as a researcher to share first-hand experiences and to provide in-depth knowledge on working mothers’ resilience. Also, deep reflection on myself and my experiences provided me with an opportunity to understand my research participants better. Finally, being both mother and researcher offered the prospect of clarifying, describing and illuminating the experiences of working mothers, their adversities and their resilience from an insider perspective. In addition to my own, I included six other working mothers’ experiences and perceptions to unravel, describe and obtain an understanding of the cultural and social context of resilient working mothers. Using the data gathered from interviews, participant observation and unsolicited documents, including diary entries and photographs, I constructed a number of narratives. Field notes, interview transcriptions and a research journal were also used to capture the data and autoethnographic analytical methods were employed to uncover themes in the data. Finally, to provide a deeper and richer understanding of resilient working mothers, I integrated my own concrete experiences and those of the other women with abstract scholarly concepts. As I believe evocative writing offers a powerful and meaningful description of phenomena, I employed various literary genres and art forms to bring the lived experiences of the working mothers in the study to life. More specifically, I crafted memoirs, short stories, poetry and dialogue and included non-textual displays like photographs, illustrations and music to engage the reader...
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- Authors: Neethling, Lieneke Murray , Working mothers
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: Motherhood , Resilience (Personality trait) , Work-life balance
- Language: English
- Type: Masters (Thesis)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/237777 , uj:24368
- Description: M.Phil. , Abstract: In this postmodernist study, resilient working mothers are studied by means of an autoethnographical strategy. I accordingly examined a small group of South African working mothers’ experiences, including my own, by blending an evocative and artful presentation with theory and analysis. In assimilating subjective personal experience and the broader sociocultural reality, I offer insights into the social world of resilient working mothers, the challenges they experience, and how they manage to thrive despite adversity. As a mother who worked as a minister, I was uniquely situated as a researcher to share first-hand experiences and to provide in-depth knowledge on working mothers’ resilience. Also, deep reflection on myself and my experiences provided me with an opportunity to understand my research participants better. Finally, being both mother and researcher offered the prospect of clarifying, describing and illuminating the experiences of working mothers, their adversities and their resilience from an insider perspective. In addition to my own, I included six other working mothers’ experiences and perceptions to unravel, describe and obtain an understanding of the cultural and social context of resilient working mothers. Using the data gathered from interviews, participant observation and unsolicited documents, including diary entries and photographs, I constructed a number of narratives. Field notes, interview transcriptions and a research journal were also used to capture the data and autoethnographic analytical methods were employed to uncover themes in the data. Finally, to provide a deeper and richer understanding of resilient working mothers, I integrated my own concrete experiences and those of the other women with abstract scholarly concepts. As I believe evocative writing offers a powerful and meaningful description of phenomena, I employed various literary genres and art forms to bring the lived experiences of the working mothers in the study to life. More specifically, I crafted memoirs, short stories, poetry and dialogue and included non-textual displays like photographs, illustrations and music to engage the reader...
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The interplay between emotional labour and work-family balance among black women nurses in Johannesburg
- Authors: Maluleka, Zabby Ntsako
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: Work and play , Work-life balance , Nurses, Black - South Africa - Johannesburg , Women nurses - South Africa - Johannesburg
- Language: English
- Type: Masters (Thesis)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/477779 , uj:43181
- Description: Abstract: Nurses are essential to health care system in South Africa. They ensure that patients receive healing through the provision of health care. Nurses working in the South African public health care system face many challenges including poor practice environments, poor working conditions, lack of resources and staff shortages. Additionally, they are exposed to diseases and they experience traumatic events at work, for example the death of patients. As a result, nurses experience emotional exhaustion more than other professions. Along with dealing with the emotional encounters they experience at work nurses have families who also demand emotional support from them as well. These work and home demands require nurses to strike a difficult work life balance. Using a qualitative approach, this study aimed to understand the interplay between emotional labour and work family balance among Black women nurses in Johannesburg. The study findings indicate that emotional labour impacts on nurses’ ability to deal with home related stresses and leads to an imbalance as work drains their ability effectively deal with family demands. In the same view, this lack of balance is visible in their quality of life and their low job satisfaction and 'ineffective' patient care... , M.A. (Social Science)
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- Authors: Maluleka, Zabby Ntsako
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: Work and play , Work-life balance , Nurses, Black - South Africa - Johannesburg , Women nurses - South Africa - Johannesburg
- Language: English
- Type: Masters (Thesis)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/477779 , uj:43181
- Description: Abstract: Nurses are essential to health care system in South Africa. They ensure that patients receive healing through the provision of health care. Nurses working in the South African public health care system face many challenges including poor practice environments, poor working conditions, lack of resources and staff shortages. Additionally, they are exposed to diseases and they experience traumatic events at work, for example the death of patients. As a result, nurses experience emotional exhaustion more than other professions. Along with dealing with the emotional encounters they experience at work nurses have families who also demand emotional support from them as well. These work and home demands require nurses to strike a difficult work life balance. Using a qualitative approach, this study aimed to understand the interplay between emotional labour and work family balance among Black women nurses in Johannesburg. The study findings indicate that emotional labour impacts on nurses’ ability to deal with home related stresses and leads to an imbalance as work drains their ability effectively deal with family demands. In the same view, this lack of balance is visible in their quality of life and their low job satisfaction and 'ineffective' patient care... , M.A. (Social Science)
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