Managing emotions, intimacy and relationships in a volunteer search and rescue group.

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155.935 21

Subject: Examines interpersonal emotion management during crisis situations. Illustrates how rescuers managed victim's and families' intense emotions during searches and rescues, which led them to form unusually rapid and intimate bonds with these strangers. After the rescues, some victims and families sustained the relationship with rescuers, repaying them with monetary donations and emotions like gratitude, while others terminated the relationship altogether. Concludes by discussing the effects of interpersonal emotional management on victims' and families' selves and on their relationship with rescuers.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	155.935 MAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		011768308

Reprinted from Journal of contemporary ethnography, 2001, v. 30, no. 2; pp.131-179

Examines interpersonal emotion management during crisis situations. Illustrates how rescuers managed victim's and families' intense emotions during searches and rescues, which led them to form unusually rapid and intimate bonds with these strangers. After the rescues, some victims and families sustained the relationship with rescuers, repaying them with monetary donations and emotions like gratitude, while others terminated the relationship altogether. Concludes by discussing the effects of interpersonal emotional management on victims' and families' selves and on their relationship with rescuers.

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