La colère chez les éducateurs de la PJJ : une émotion inutile mais légitime face à la transgression d’un jeune
Educational work with teenagers that are likely to enter into conflict may be a source of frustration and anger. The youth workers’ interpretation of the meaning of opposition behaviors is possibly linked to their emotional reactions.The purpose of this study is to explore the juvenile justice educa...
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| author | Elsa de Grenier de Latour Mael Virat Nathalie Przygodzki-Lionet |
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| description | Educational work with teenagers that are likely to enter into conflict may be a source of frustration and anger. The youth workers’ interpretation of the meaning of opposition behaviors is possibly linked to their emotional reactions.The purpose of this study is to explore the juvenile justice educators’ attitudes towards anger. By presenting to juvenile justice trainee educators (N= 85) a fictive scenario that recounts a conflict situation in which an educator feels angry, this study is interested in the evaluation of usefulness and legitimacy of the youth worker’s anger as well as the way to interpret the teenager’s behavior (controllable causal attributions vs uncontrollable and internal vs external ones).The results show that a large majority of the youth workers judge that anger is useless and a small majority of them estimate that anger is, however, legitimate. Moreover, youth workers are more likely to perceive the adolescent’s behavior as internal but uncontrollable, what provides an indulgent explanation to the transgression that seems to be able to be linked to the attitude towards anger.In light of these results and in the context of the emotional work to be done by juvenile justice educators, those indulgent causal attributions can be interpreted as cognitive strategies of anger regulation. Finally, the legitimacy given to anger could translate a claim of emotional autonomy by youth workers or an attitude favorable to anger despite the knowledge of its uselessness. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a84d216891f14bbdab1fbd2261e63cd42024-02-13T13:49:37ZengEcole Nationale de Protection Judiciaire de la JeunesseSociétés et Jeunesses en Difficulté1953-837523La colère chez les éducateurs de la PJJ : une émotion inutile mais légitime face à la transgression d’un jeuneElsa de Grenier de LatourMael ViratNathalie Przygodzki-LionetEducational work with teenagers that are likely to enter into conflict may be a source of frustration and anger. The youth workers’ interpretation of the meaning of opposition behaviors is possibly linked to their emotional reactions.The purpose of this study is to explore the juvenile justice educators’ attitudes towards anger. By presenting to juvenile justice trainee educators (N= 85) a fictive scenario that recounts a conflict situation in which an educator feels angry, this study is interested in the evaluation of usefulness and legitimacy of the youth worker’s anger as well as the way to interpret the teenager’s behavior (controllable causal attributions vs uncontrollable and internal vs external ones).The results show that a large majority of the youth workers judge that anger is useless and a small majority of them estimate that anger is, however, legitimate. Moreover, youth workers are more likely to perceive the adolescent’s behavior as internal but uncontrollable, what provides an indulgent explanation to the transgression that seems to be able to be linked to the attitude towards anger.In light of these results and in the context of the emotional work to be done by juvenile justice educators, those indulgent causal attributions can be interpreted as cognitive strategies of anger regulation. Finally, the legitimacy given to anger could translate a claim of emotional autonomy by youth workers or an attitude favorable to anger despite the knowledge of its uselessness.https://journals.openedition.org/sejed/10134delinquencyemotional workangercausal attributionsemotional regulationjuvenile justice trainee educators |
| spellingShingle | Elsa de Grenier de Latour Mael Virat Nathalie Przygodzki-Lionet La colère chez les éducateurs de la PJJ : une émotion inutile mais légitime face à la transgression d’un jeune Sociétés et Jeunesses en Difficulté delinquency emotional work anger causal attributions emotional regulation juvenile justice trainee educators |
| title | La colère chez les éducateurs de la PJJ : une émotion inutile mais légitime face à la transgression d’un jeune |
| title_full | La colère chez les éducateurs de la PJJ : une émotion inutile mais légitime face à la transgression d’un jeune |
| title_fullStr | La colère chez les éducateurs de la PJJ : une émotion inutile mais légitime face à la transgression d’un jeune |
| title_full_unstemmed | La colère chez les éducateurs de la PJJ : une émotion inutile mais légitime face à la transgression d’un jeune |
| title_short | La colère chez les éducateurs de la PJJ : une émotion inutile mais légitime face à la transgression d’un jeune |
| title_sort | la colere chez les educateurs de la pjj une emotion inutile mais legitime face a la transgression d un jeune |
| topic | delinquency emotional work anger causal attributions emotional regulation juvenile justice trainee educators |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/sejed/10134 |
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