Monika Idaitė, Agnė Daunytė, Ugnė Dunčytė, Goda Gudienė, Evelina Jogielaitė, Greta Meištaitė, Lina Vaitkevičiūtė, Gabrielė Venckutė
Work is a mental and physical activity performed in order to receive a reward, which is usually understood as money. However, people work in a variety of jobs, and their job choices are not driven only by financial income. When working, we also receive psychic income – respect, gratitude, emotions, various experiences, and feelings. Psychic income is largely analyzed by economists and psychologists. In social work, as in medicine or pedagogy, psychic income is a significant part of the total income. The goal of the study is to identify sources of psychic income in social work. In order to determine the sources, a model of possible sources was constructed. The model is based on the ideas of Coleman, Bandura and Zukerman. The data for the test of the model was collected by surveying social workers. After the analysis, it can be stated that there are differences in psychic income between social workers depending on the sector they work in; statistically significant results were found in the case of social workers working in NGOs. The main sources of mental income are self-efficacy and the challenges and emotional experiences at work. Research also revealed that there are contradictions regarding the realization of power in social work as a source of psychic income, which requires additional research.
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This article investigates the stigmatisation of single-mother families in Lithuania’s family policy through qualitative legal document content analysis and semi-structured interviews with single mothers. It reveals historical policy biases favouring nuclear families, resulting in marginalised single-mother households despite recognising their economic challenges. Analysis of single mothers’ experiences shows how stigmatization negatively impacts these families’ well-being and political representation, hindering rights advocacy.
{"title":"Šeimos politika ir vienų motinų šeimų stigmatizacija","authors":"Greta Skubiejute","doi":"10.15388/stepp.2023.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/stepp.2023.3","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the stigmatisation of single-mother families in Lithuania’s family policy through qualitative legal document content analysis and semi-structured interviews with single mothers. It reveals historical policy biases favouring nuclear families, resulting in marginalised single-mother households despite recognising their economic challenges. Analysis of single mothers’ experiences shows how stigmatization negatively impacts these families’ well-being and political representation, hindering rights advocacy.","PeriodicalId":40239,"journal":{"name":"Socialine Teorija Empirija Politika ir Praktika","volume":"623 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135814211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The current conflict in Ukraine has forcibly displaced a large number of people and has put migration issues at the center of attention once again. A small, but growing, body of literature has revealed that Ukrainian refugees are being treated differently vis-à-vis other refugee groups – this is a clear concern for the social work profession, which is supposed to safeguard all minorities’ rights equally. In this commentary, I briefly review and focus on one aspect of why Ukrainian refugees are seemingly being treated ‘better’ – culture. Cultural proximity has been argued to be a major factor in how the Western response to the current conflict has been shaped, where Ukrainians, but not other refugee groups, are conceived of as culturally compatible with Western countries. The commentary conceptualizes this treatment within the framework of ‘promising victimhood’ and suggests that further research should focus on how victimhood is constructed within the social work profession in relation to the current crisis.
{"title":"„Nekreipkite dėmesio į veidmainystę“: komentaras apie skirtingą požiūrį į pabėgėlių priėmimą","authors":"Tony Mickelsson Blomqvist","doi":"10.15388/stepp.2023.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/stepp.2023.51","url":null,"abstract":"The current conflict in Ukraine has forcibly displaced a large number of people and has put migration issues at the center of attention once again. A small, but growing, body of literature has revealed that Ukrainian refugees are being treated differently vis-à-vis other refugee groups – this is a clear concern for the social work profession, which is supposed to safeguard all minorities’ rights equally. In this commentary, I briefly review and focus on one aspect of why Ukrainian refugees are seemingly being treated ‘better’ – culture. Cultural proximity has been argued to be a major factor in how the Western response to the current conflict has been shaped, where Ukrainians, but not other refugee groups, are conceived of as culturally compatible with Western countries. The commentary conceptualizes this treatment within the framework of ‘promising victimhood’ and suggests that further research should focus on how victimhood is constructed within the social work profession in relation to the current crisis.","PeriodicalId":40239,"journal":{"name":"Socialine Teorija Empirija Politika ir Praktika","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135536851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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