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dc.contributor.author | Bosmans, Kim | - |
dc.contributor.author | Mousaid, Sarah | - |
dc.contributor.author | De Cuyper, Nele | - |
dc.contributor.author | HARDONK, Stefan | - |
dc.contributor.author | Louckx, Fred | - |
dc.contributor.author | Vanroelen, Christophe | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-16T14:39:03Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-02-16T14:39:03Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | JOURNAL OF VOCATIONAL BEHAVIOR, 92, p. 54-67 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0001-8791 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/20661 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Domestic work can be perceived to be 'dirty work' in several ways: it is associated with dirt handling, low occupational prestige, and domestic workers have a servile relationship to their clients/employers. This stigma may negatively affect domestic workers' sense of self, and thus coping strategies appear to be critical. In this article, we explore the coping strategies that moderate the relation between the stigma of dirty work and domestic workers' sense of self, based on the analyses of 43 interviews with domestic workers in Belgium. By using a social stress approach in which stigma is considered a stressor, our results reveal a range of maladaptive and adaptive coping strategies that contribute to a negative or a more positive sense of self. Four main categories of coping strategies are discussed: confronting or countering perceptions and behaviours, occupational ideologies, social weighting and defensive tactics. The first two categories are adaptive coping strategies; the last two can be adaptive or maladaptive. We also reveal that workers used adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies simultaneously, leading to mixed implications for their sense of self. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. | - |
dc.description.sponsorship | This research is facilitated by the research grant 'FWO1.1.B13.12N', which is assigned to the first author by the Research Foundation Flanders, and the research funds of the SOPHIE-project provided by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 278173. The authors would like to thank the service voucher employees for their participation in this scientific research and the contact persons of the organisations that helped us to find these workers. We would also like to thank our colleague Kelly Huegaerts for her help with interviewing the domestic workers. | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE | - |
dc.rights | © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. | - |
dc.subject.other | Coping strategies; Dirty work; Domestic work; Qualitative research; Sense of self; Stigmatisation | - |
dc.subject.other | coping strategies; dirty work; domestic work; qualitative research; sense of self; stigmatisation | - |
dc.title | Dirty work, dirty worker? Stigmatisation and coping strategies among domestic workers | - |
dc.type | Journal Contribution | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 67 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 54 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 92 | - |
local.format.pages | 14 | - |
local.bibliographicCitation.jcat | A1 | - |
dc.description.notes | [Bosmans, Kim; Mousaid, Sarah; Louckx, Fred; Vanroelen, Christophe] Vrije Univ Brussel, Dept Sociol, Res Grp Interface Demog, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium. [De Cuyper, Nele] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Res Grp Work Org & Personnel Psychol, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. [Hardonk, Stefan] Hasselt Univ, Res Grp SEIN Ident Divers & Inequal Res, B-3500 Hasselt, Belgium. [Hardonk, Stefan] Univ Iceland, Ctr Disabil Studies, IS-101 Reykjavik, Iceland. [Vanroelen, Christophe] Univ Pompeu Fabra, Employment Condit Knowledge Network GREDS EMCONET, Hlth Inequal Res Grp, Barcelona, Spain. | - |
local.publisher.place | SAN DIEGO | - |
local.type.refereed | Refereed | - |
local.type.specified | Article | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jvb.2015.11.008 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | 000368315600006 | - |
item.fullcitation | Bosmans, Kim; Mousaid, Sarah; De Cuyper, Nele; HARDONK, Stefan; Louckx, Fred & Vanroelen, Christophe (2016) Dirty work, dirty worker? Stigmatisation and coping strategies among domestic workers. In: JOURNAL OF VOCATIONAL BEHAVIOR, 92, p. 54-67. | - |
item.contributor | Bosmans, Kim | - |
item.contributor | Mousaid, Sarah | - |
item.contributor | De Cuyper, Nele | - |
item.contributor | HARDONK, Stefan | - |
item.contributor | Louckx, Fred | - |
item.contributor | Vanroelen, Christophe | - |
item.validation | ecoom 2017 | - |
item.accessRights | Restricted Access | - |
item.fulltext | With Fulltext | - |
crisitem.journal.issn | 0001-8791 | - |
crisitem.journal.eissn | 1095-9084 | - |
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