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VAZQUEZ GARNICA, Elba Karina  y  ENRIQUEZ ROSAS, María del Rocío. A Sociocultural Approach to the Emotional Regulation that Family Caregivers Enact upon Chronic Patients in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Desacatos [online]. 2012, n.39, pp.57-72. ISSN 2448-5144.

The research aimed to understand the emotional management forms displayed by family caregivers of chronic patients from the moderate social constructionism perspective.The methods used were ethnography, observation and qualitative semi-structured interviews with 19 caregivers.The data show relevant religious and spiritual content within discourses and everyday practices.This study enriches the Hochschild (1990) postulates and reveal the existence of a double function model: the resolution of the immediate situation and the well being of the patient and the caregiver with emphasis on the relational dimension. The relevance of socio-cultural elements takes centrality when approaching care as an object of study from interdisciplinary perspectives.

Palabras llave : caregiver; social emotions; emotional management; emotions ethnographic; chronic illness.

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