Penny : so like a trivial thing to make you unhappy would be like …………..you wanted to do something like after school but now like your mum has said you’ve got to do something else like I don’t know some chores or something and then something major to make you feel sad…………would be something like a death or something like that major. Both of their personal histories enabled them to identify that the death of a significant person in their life created feelings of sadness. Both of them used this as a reference point of what sadness was. It was within their personal history and gave them an event to locate the emotion. There was an acknowledgement in the embodiment of the emotion, acting as a marker for unhappiness. Bob had not experienced any significant losses in his life. He lived with his parents and brother in a home that he had lived in all of his life. When asked what he thought unhappiness, was his response was also rooted within his own lived experience. He said. Bob: well………..say if you did a bad tackle on somebody and they didn’t like it then they’d do one onto you……………….. For me what this indicates is that unhappiness is textual, as both Penny and Louise had experienced the death of a close relative. Their accounts illustrate a personal and individualism in how it is recorded. The need to anchor emotions within their personal histories was identified in the previous chapter. In this regard it is concurring with Hochschild (1983) and Goffman’s (1959) dramaturgy analogies where the individual has to draw on emotions which they feel can relate to the social situation that they are currently experiencing. I would argue that the participant’s ability to do this will reflect their level of emotional competence that they demonstrate. For Bob, his experiences remain limited and therefore his range of
Penny : so like a trivial thing to make you unhappy would be like …………..you wanted to do something like after school but now like your mum has said you’ve got to do something else like I don’t know some chores or something and then something major to make you feel sad…………would be something like a death or something like that major. Both of their personal histories enabled them to identify that the death of a significant person in their life created feelings of sadness. Both of them used this as a reference point of what sadness was. It was within their personal history and gave them an event to locate the emotion. There was an acknowledgement in the embodiment of the emotion, acting as a marker for unhappiness. Bob had not experienced any significant losses in his life. He lived with his parents and brother in a home that he had lived in all of his life. When asked what he thought unhappiness, was his response was also rooted within his own lived experience. He said. Bob: well………..say if you did a bad tackle on somebody and they didn’t like it then they’d do one onto you……………….. For me what this indicates is that unhappiness is textual, as both Penny and Louise had experienced the death of a close relative. Their accounts illustrate a personal and individualism in how it is recorded. The need to anchor emotions within their personal histories was identified in the previous chapter. In this regard it is concurring with Hochschild (1983) and Goffman’s (1959) dramaturgy analogies where the individual has to draw on emotions which they feel can relate to the social situation that they are currently experiencing. I would argue that the participant’s ability to do this will reflect their level of emotional competence that they demonstrate. For Bob, his experiences remain limited and therefore his range of
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