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Bullying has long-lasting consequences for mental and physical health as well as relationships, but little is known about how bullying experiences at school-age impact social behaviors–and particularly social attachment–in adulthood. This qualitative study investigates the relationship between experiencing school bullying and social attachment patterns in early adulthood. The analysis comprises a retrospective study of young adults in Poland (n = 20) who were interviewed to investigate possible connections between their peer bullying experiences and current social lives. The findings reveal three major social attachment patterns in adulthood: social cushioning, anxious withdrawal, and desperate friendship-seeking. In the first pattern, a person acquires emotional and social security through attachment to a small peer circle. In the second, a young adult prefers solitude or limited social contact to avoid further negative experiences. In the third, a person seeks to be socially recovered and approved despite multiple failures and rejections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we address data interrelations that social researchers face when working with qualitative data collected through in-depth interviews with longitudinal (QLR) and multiperspective (MPR) research designs. Revisiting data from four different research projects and building on the proposal by VOGL, ZARTLER, SCHMIDT and RIEDER (2018), we present the 4C model of complexities within data interrelations. Specifically, the broader pool of data allowed us to cross-investigate how interview data may contradict, correct, complement, or be confluent with what the researcher has gathered from another interview conducted at a different point in time (longitudinally) or with another study participant (multi-perspective approach). Using different forms of transitions (e.g., transitions to adulthood, migratory transitions, transitions to parenthood) as a common analytical thread, we argue that revealing inherent inconsistencies in the data reflects the complex and ever-changing nature of reality and that making sense of these inconsistencies often enriches interpretations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Educational Psychology / Psychologia Wychowawcza is the property of Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im Marii Grzegorzewskiej and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

This study offers a sociological contribution to the literature on coping strategies on the labor market, with an explicit emphasis on the crisis context and the resulting job insecurity. The COVID-19 pandemic has narrowed employment opportunities and worsened working conditions for many individuals who, in response, needed to cope with the unfolding changes. Based on a qualitative dataset comprising 70 in-depth interviews collected in 2021 in Poland, this paper sheds light on the two main types of coping strategies, namely emotional and problem-solving coping. Juxtaposing coping strategies with age, we discuss how younger and older workers in Poland handle work uncertainty. The paper contributes new data on coping strategies in the context of work-lives and offers evidence on the coping processes emerging in response to the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the fact that being a grandmother lasts longer and remains significant, relatively few empirical studies focus on the experience of being a grandmother in Poland today. Drawing on the findings of a qualitative longitudinal study, this article fills this knowledge gap and demonstrates a temporal evolution of the 'grandmother' social role. The results not only present the reflections connected to awaiting the first grandchild, but also describe the aspects of practical fulfillment of the grandmother role for the first time. The interviewed first-time grandmothers were navigating a repertoire of various social roles and, as grandmothers, they were mostly operating through company and engagement with their grandchildren. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article explores the dynamics of personal relationships within a geographically mobile, large peer group (PG) over time. Based on a case-study of a PG examined within the broader Qualitative Longitudinal Study (QLS) on 'Peer Groups & Migration' in Poland, the analysis focuses on the transformations of friendships from early adolescence to adulthood. The paper sheds light on friendship relationships and gauges strength of bonds over fifteen years from a spatial perspective. By specifically examining three critical moments of the PG formation (ca. age 15), leaving home (ca. 18-19), and the current transition to mid-adulthood (ca. 27-29), a retrospective and temporally dynamic portrait of friendships continuously affected by mobility is proposed. We demonstrate the entanglement of youth friendships in space (mobility) and time, arguing that a rise of transnationalism did not alleviate the preference for having one's friends in close spatial proximity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Copyright of Przeglad Socjologiczny is the property of Lodz Scientific Society / Lodzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Studia Socjologiczne is the property of Studia Socjologiczne and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

While the lives of migrant women are predominantly portrayed as inherently problematic, limited attention has been given to their experiences of empowerment and disempowerment. The maternal power framework is used in this article to study Polish migrant mothers and their children. Bringing together two studies to showcase an intergenerational perspective of the realms of migrant motherhood, the authors present evidence from (1) the stories of women representing a ‘Mother-Pole’ parenting (an iconically Polish self-sacrificing practice of subjecting women’s needs to those of her family), and (2) the data collected through interviewing adult children of Polish migrant mothers. The findings indicate a twofold conceptualization of power, challenging the universal ascription of ‘powerlessness’ characteristic to motherhood, yet contending that Mother-Poles are prone to marginalization. Ultimately, the article comments on the possibility of transformative maternal power among the Poles abroad and contributes to the current debates on the intersection of gender, ethnicity and power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Przeglad Socjologiczny is the property of Lodz Scientific Society / Lodzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The social and historical role of food and culinary practices has been one of the most under-researched areas within the broad discipline of migration studies. At the same time, the process of feeding the family is constitutive for identities, belonging, social anchoring, and home-making that migrants engage in abroad. Connecting the results of two studies revolving around transnational families, we propose to treat both the daily/routinized and the celebratory/special culinary practices as predicates of integration with the host society. In addition, we see them as the efforts aimed at maintaining a particular degree of uniqueness within the ethnic/national identity. By expanding a theoretical framework of dietary acculturation, we highlight the gender dimension of this realm. Relying on the qualitative interview material, the article argues that maintaining transnational and intrafamily bonds through food varies among women and families, yet encompasses a key lens for looking at how the migrant families are faring abroad. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]