背景:新冠肺炎大流行期间施加的社会限制导致工作家庭角色和社会界限的戏剧性重新配置,导致工作妈妈们寻找在线网站作为情感支持和调节的空间,在那里他们可以发泄情绪,分享他们的担忧和悲伤,并寻求建议。它们也成为互动空间,在那里,妈妈的相关身份被重新评估和制定,因为它们旨在平衡工作与家庭的角色并改善他们的福祉。本文探讨了在全球斗争时期,工作妈妈如何在在线支持论坛中对自己的多重身份进行辩论,这些身份结构如何反映工作-家庭冲突(WFC)的领域,以及工作妈妈如何看待这些身份与他们的心理健康有关。
方法:分三个阶段分析了2020年上半年在公共在线支持论坛上为工作妈妈收集的127篇智利工作妈妈帖子。第一个涉及主题分析,以确定与数据中的工作妈妈身份建构相关的主题和子主题。第二阶段涉及对工作妈妈进行叙事分析,以确定由这些工作妈妈精心制作的主叙事,以及竞争和顺应母性的意识形态,在其他人中。最后,第三阶段涉及对最具代表性的摘录进行细粒度的语篇分析,这些摘录说明了工作妈妈的身份协商。
结果:社会语言学分析表明,工作妈妈的话语表现出自我反省的三个主题,即,自我保健的减少,重新评估他们的自我,通过自我保健增强自我。讨论并对每个主要主题的与身份相关的子主题进行了辩论和分析。强调了两个要点:(1)在工作妈妈的话语中最突出的身份是他们的个人身份(而不是工作-家庭角色和身份),(2)微论允许工作妈妈挑战围绕其身份和工作家庭角色的主导话语的霸权力量。
结论:研究表明,探索工作妈妈身份协商的社会语言学方法有助于强调妈妈对工作-家庭角色的二元假设以及需要重新考虑工作妈妈的生活领域,以便它们反映工作妈妈的实际身份需求和生活经历。概述了未来的研究方向。
BACKGROUND: The dramatic reconfigurations of work-family roles and social boundaries resulting from the social restrictions imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic led working mums to look for online sites as spaces of emotional support and regulation where they could vent their emotions, share their concerns and griefs, and seek advice. They also became interactional spaces where mums\' relevant identities were reassessed and enacted as they aimed to balance work-family roles and improve their wellbeing. The paper explores how working mums discursively negotiated their multiple identities in an online support forum during times of global struggle, how these
identity constructions reflect the domains of Work-Family Conflict (WFC) and how working mums perceived these identities are related to their mental health.
METHODS: 127 posts of Chilean working mums published in a public online support forum for working mums collected during the first half of 2020 were analysed in three phases. The first one involved a thematic analysis to identify themes and subthemes related to working mums\'
identity construction in the data. The second phase involved conducting a narrative analysis of working mums\' microstorias in order to identify a master narrative crafted by these working mums, and contesting and conforming ideologies of motherhood, among others. Finally, the third phase involved a fine-grained discourse analysis of the most representative extracts illustrating working mums\' identity negotiation.
RESULTS: The sociolinguistic analysis showed that working mums\' discourses displayed three themes of self-reflection, namely, diminishing self-care, reassessing their self, and enhancing self through self-care.
Identity-related sub-themes for each main theme are discussed and discursively analysed. Two main points are emphasised: (1) the
identity that was most salient in working mums\' discourse was their personal
identity (rather than work-family roles and identities), and (2) microstorias allowed working mums to challenge the hegemonic power of dominant discourses around their identities and their work-family roles.
CONCLUSIONS: The study shows that a sociolinguistic approach to the exploration of working mums\' identity negotiation is useful to highlight the ways in which mums contest binary assumptions of work-family roles and the need to reconsider working mums\' life domains so that they reflect working mums\' actual identity needs and lived experiences. Future lines of research are outlined.