“If You Were a Horse, You Would Have Been Shot”: A Thematic Analysis of Medical Professionals’ Communication with Mothers

IF 0.9 Q3 COMMUNICATION
D. Milman, Miglena M. Sternadori
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Abstract

This study expands the concept of motherhood as a social construction, grounded in Jung’s Great Mother and the Terrible Mother archetypes, to the context of medical communications. By analyzing 254 mothers’ responses to an online survey, we determined the primary themes in their recollections of medical professionals’ communications identified by the participants as having affected their sense of stress related to “good mother” norms. Some of the statements recalled by participants enforced socially constructed norms; others challenged the normativity of intensive mothering or encouraged mothers to parent on their own terms. The findings reinforce the notion that a mother's perceived failure to rise to the standards of a “good mother,” and the resulting guilt and shame, are part of an ever-evolving normative system that is frequently, though unwittingly, upheld by those it oppresses.
“如果你是一匹马,你就会被枪杀”:医学专业人员与母亲沟通的主题分析
本研究将母亲作为一种社会建构的概念扩展到医学传播的背景下,这一概念以荣格的《伟大的母亲》和《可怕的母亲》原型为基础。通过分析254位母亲对一项在线调查的反应,我们确定了她们对医疗专业人员交流回忆中的主要主题,参与者认为这些主题影响了她们与“好母亲”规范相关的压力感。与会者回顾的一些发言强化了社会建构的规范;其他人则对强化育儿的规范性提出质疑,或鼓励母亲按照自己的方式做父母。这些发现强化了这样一种观念,即母亲被认为未能达到“好母亲”的标准,以及由此产生的内疚和羞耻感,是一个不断发展的规范体系的一部分,而这个体系经常被其压迫者所维护,尽管是无意中的。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Communication Inquiry emphasizes interdisciplinary inquiry into communication and mass communication phenomena within cultural and historical perspectives. Such perspectives imply that an understanding of these phenomena cannot arise soley out of a narrowly focused analysis. Rather, the approaches emphasize philosophical, evaluative, empirical, legal, historical, and/or critical inquiry into relationships between mass communication and society across time and culture. The Journal of Communication Inquiry is a forum for such investigations.
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