'I was like a wild wild person': understanding feelings of anger using interpretative phenomenological analysis.
This paper is concerned with illuminating how emotion (anger) and emotion-related phenomena such as feelings, thoughts and expressions appear to the individual person. In particular, it focuses on the role of feelings in emotion experience. It does this through the qualitative analysis of interview material from a single person case study using interpretative phenomenological analysis. The paper examines how the participant feels and experiences anger, the defining characteristics of anger episodes, and how the typical pattern of these episodes is disrupted by life-changes. The findings are examined in light of phenomenological ideas and the utility of these ideas for psychology's understanding of emotion argued for.
Eatough
Virginia
V
School of Psychology, Birkbeck University of London, UK. v.eatough@bbk.ac.uk
Smith
Jonathan
J
D000328:Adult; D000786:Anger; D002648:Child; D002668:Child Rearing / Q000523:psychology; D032882:Comprehension; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008425:Maternal Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D018187:Personal Construct Theory; D011889:Rage; D011932:Reading; D012660:Semantics; D013067:Speech Perception; D014705:Verbal Behavior