A Sociological Study on Emotion Regulation in People Living with HIV/AIDS in China (eBook)

This book explores the experiences and emotional expression of 30 people Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) using qualitative research methods such as 'illness narratives,' and analyzes the dilemmas of 'sicknesses of the society' including 'Acquired Needs Deficiency' Syndrome, 'Acquired Expectation Insufficiency' Syndrome, and 'Acquired Punishment' Syndrome at the micro, meso and macro levels, so as to investigate higher-intensity negative emotions.

The author has obtained his Ph.D. degree in psychology from Fu Jen Catholic Universityin 2015 and in sociology from Renmin University of Chinain 2016. He is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology of School of Humanities and Law of Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, anda supervisor in master programs. His main research interest concerns sociology of sexuality, and adolescent social work. He has hosted 11 national, provincial and municipal research projectsin total, participated in over 10 research projects, and published two academic monographs and over 10 academic papers, of which one paper was published in Social Sciences in China (internal circulation), eight were published in CSSCIjournals (including the extended version), and one was reprintedin full in Sociologyissued by the InformationCenterforSocialSciencesof Renmin University of China.

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This book explores the experiences and emotional expression of 30 people Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) using qualitative research methods such as "e;illness narratives,"e; and analyzes the dilemmas of "e;sicknesses of the society"e; including "e;Acquired Needs Deficiency"e; Syndrome, "e;Acquired Expectation Insufficiency"e; Syndrome, and "e;Acquired Punishment"e; Syndrome at the micro, meso and macro levels, so as to investigate higher-intensity negative emotions.In turn, the book draws on the perspectives of conflict and game, structure and function, and system and interaction, in order to propose a dynamic mechanism of emotion and expression, and argues that these negative emotions can be transformed, strengthened and presented through defense mechanisms such as suppression and attribution, which will influence social institutions at the micro, meso and macro levels and even possibly bring about positive changes in the social structure.