Bodybuilding and Health Work: A Life Course Perspective

Emotions are enormously complex, and difficult to define. Shame can be seen as the entwinement of negative self-evaluations and the fear of this being made public. These social dimensions are acknowledged in Scheff’s analysis of shame that leads him to view this as ‘the large family of emotions that include many cognates and variants, most notable embarrassment, guilt, humiliation, and related feelings such as shyness that originate in threats …