Navigating the Academic Terrain: Understanding How Graduate Assistants Manage Emotions

dc.contributor.advisorEller, Jackieen_US
dc.contributor.authorFerrell, DaJuanen_US
dc.contributor.committeememberAmey, Fosteren_US
dc.contributor.committeememberMertig, Angelaen_US
dc.contributor.departmentSociologyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-28T18:42:09Z
dc.date.available2014-08-28T18:42:09Z
dc.date.issued2014-06-25en_US
dc.description.abstractThere has been little research done that addresses the socio-emotional experiences of individuals who are graduate assistants and students. In working to fill this gap in the literature, my thesis project explores the experiences of graduate assistants as they manage their emotions and the responsibilities associated with being both a graduate assistant and a student. To understand this phenomena, 18 in-depth interviews were conducted with graduate assistants from a southern university. After utilizing analytic description, four representative themes were pulled from the data. These themes show that graduate assistants utilize purposive smiles when providing academic service to students, engage in various forms of emotion acting (deep, surface, and transformative) as a means of managing emotions, work to construct professional interactions with faculty, and utilize time management strategies as a way to manage their graduate assistant and student responsibilities.en_US
dc.description.degreeM.A.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/handle/mtsu/4280
dc.publisherMiddle Tennessee State Universityen_US
dc.subjectDual rolesen_US
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.subjectEmotionsen_US
dc.subjectGraduate assistanten_US
dc.subjectGraduate studenten_US
dc.subjectSociologyen_US
dc.subject.umiSociologyen_US
dc.subject.umiSociology of educationen_US
dc.thesis.degreegrantorMiddle Tennessee State Universityen_US
dc.thesis.degreelevelMastersen_US
dc.titleNavigating the Academic Terrain: Understanding How Graduate Assistants Manage Emotionsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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