scholarly journals Work Identity Pause and Reactivation: A Study of Cross-Domain Identity Transitions of Trailing Wives in Dubai

2021 ◽  
pp. 095001702199373
Author(s):  
Tatiana S Rowson ◽  
Adriana Meyer ◽  
Elizabeth Houldsworth
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Narrative Interviews ◽  
Work Identity ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Cross Domain ◽  
Identity Transitions ◽  
Family Demands ◽  
Work Domain

This study takes a cross-domain identity transition perspective to explore the development of work-related identities by trailing wives in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Biographical-narrative interviews with 28 expatriate wives were conducted and analysed using thematic analysis. The findings indicated that these women approached their cross-domain identity transition sequentially through a process of work identity pause and reactivation. Gendered family demands and contextual constraints led them to temporarily pause their work identity while adjusting to non-work domain changes. The reactivation of the work identity domain prompted them to redevelop a work identity aligned to their new reality. Four manifestations of identity redevelopment status emerged: hobbyists, adaptors, explorers and re-inventors. For some women, their emerging work identity was just a way to escape the ‘expat wife’ stigma, for others it was an opportunity to develop a new career. This article introduces the concepts of identity pause and reactivation.

Examining Certified Nursing Assistants’ Perceptions of Work-Related Identity

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Gray ◽  
Valentina Lukyanova
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Role Theory ◽  
Nursing Assistants ◽  
Nursing Facilities ◽  
Certified Nursing Assistants ◽  
Nursing Facility ◽  
Work Identity ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Related Identity

Background: The purpose of this study was to examine certified nursing assistants’ (CNAs’) perceptions of their work identity within the context of their relationships with nursing facility residents and residents’ family members. Such information can help clarify CNAs’ roles and respond to their job needs. Although CNAs provide valuable care for residents, they often experience low status at work; it is important that they have opportunities to find value in their work.Methods: Eight focus groups were conducted with 45 CNAs from 4 nursing facilities. Thematic analysis and role theory were used to analyze the data.Results: Participants identified with the roles of connector, advocate, overloaded worker, and companion.Conclusions: CNAs expressed a lack of work-related control in the advocate and overloaded worker roles, and satisfaction in the companion role. Adequate organizational resources can help CNAs gain more satisfaction and effectiveness in their work.

scholarly journals Making Sense of an Unknown Terrain

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas D. Hughes ◽  
Louise Locock ◽  
Sue Simkin ◽  
Anne Stewart ◽  
Anne E. Ferrey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Narrative Interviews ◽  
Considerable Effort ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
The Impact

Self-harm is common in young people, and can have profound effects on parents and other family members. We conducted narrative interviews with 41 parents and other family members of 38 young people, aged up to 25, who had self-harmed. Most of the participants were parents but included one sibling and one spouse. This article reports experiences of the parent participants. A cross-case thematic analysis showed that most participants were bewildered by self-harm. The disruption to their worldview brought about by self-harm prompted many to undergo a process of “sense-making”—by ruminative introspection, looking for information, and building a new way of seeing—to understand and come to terms with self-harm. Most participants appeared to have been successful in making sense of self-harm, though not without considerable effort and emotional struggle. Our findings provide grounds for a deeper socio-cultural understanding of the impact of self-harm on parents.

scholarly journals Reflexive Self-Identity and Work: Working Women, Biographical Disruption and Agency

2020 ◽  
pp. 095001702092644
Author(s):  
Diane Trusson ◽  
Clive Trusson ◽  
Catherine Casey
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Breast Cancer Diagnosis ◽  
Social Constraints ◽  
Work Identity ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Biographical Disruption ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Workplace Relations ◽  
Identity Narratives

The article examines how women workers reflexively shape their self-identities and work identities following a significant biographical disruption incurred by breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. Based on interviews with 22 women navigating their post-diagnosis life course, the article addresses participants’ challenges in their relationships with paid employment, their responses and self-identity narratives. It finds that women strive to revise and innovate their self-identity and work identity in the midst of personal and social constraints in working life. They craft their cancer disruptive experiences into new developments of who they are, and want to be, as persons and as workers. Multiple intersectional features of participants’ work-related self-identity are identified, including reassessment of priorities, capabilities and workplace relations.

scholarly journals One at a Time: LGBTQ Polyamory and Relational Citizenship in the 21st Century

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-725
Author(s):  
Ana Cristina Santos
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Narrative Interviews ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Intellectual Engagement

Drawing on biographic narrative interviews with self-identified lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and/or queer polyamorous people in Portugal, this article explores the contradictions and opportunities involved in living as a relationally diverse LGBTQ intimate citizen in Southern Europe. The article starts by unpacking citizenship in relation to dominant sociolegal expectations around monogamy. In this section, it is suggested that the mononormative underpinnings of law and social policy restrain intimate citizenship. The second part of the article explores the legal and cultural meanings attached to coupledom, suggesting the notion of relational performativity as an analytical tool for interpreting cultural norms and expectations around partnering. The last section discusses citizenship and coupledom in light of the biographic narratives produced by LGBTQ polyamorous participants in the INTIMATE study in Portugal. Based on thematic analysis of these narratives, it is argued that the framework of intimate citizenship is not fixed, and the notion of relational citizenship is offered. Arguably, relational citizenship enables a gradual detachment from the strictly monogamous underpinnings of citizenship studies, hence offering an opportunity for further intellectual engagement with intimacy and diversity in the 21st century.

An identity conflict perspective on female expatriate work adjustment

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Yu ◽  
Hong Ren
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Work Adjustment ◽  
Work Role ◽  
Identity Conflict ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Role Identities ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Work Domain

PurposeThis study aims to develop a model for female expatriate work adjustment from the identity conflict perspective.Design/methodology/approachThis is a theoretical paper that focuses on integrating the existing literature and proposing new constructive relationships.FindingsWe study female expatriates' adjustment processes in the work domain from the identity conflict perspective. Specifically, we categorize female expatriates' identities in the work domain into their gender identity and a work-related role identity cluster and propose that when gender identity is salient, unsupportive national and organizational cultures will lead to gender–work role identity conflicts and eventually result in maladjustment in the work domain.Originality/valueFirst, we suggest that female expatriates' work role identities can form a cluster that includes expatriate role, managerial role and occupational role identity. We further theorize how the gender role identity and the work-related role identity cluster of female expatriates interact to influence how they adjust to their work. Second, we explore two contingency factors – host organizational culture and host national culture–and explain how they influence the interaction between female expatriates' gender identity and work-related role identities. Finally, we introduce the concept of gender–work role identity conflict and theorize how it serves as the underlying mechanism linking female expatriate identity patterns and work adjustment.

Key Push and Pull Factors Affecting Return to Work Identified by Patients With Long-Term Pain and General Practitioners in Sweden

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 1581-1594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tove Lundberg ◽  
Stina Melander
Keyword(s):  
Return To Work ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Individual Motivation ◽  
Push And Pull Factors ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Push And Pull

Research shows that working is positive for people with long-term pain but that work-related support from health professionals is inadequate. One explanation for this inadequacy is that patients and providers differ in terms of perspectives on motivation to work. In this article, we compare factors that 31 patients and 15 general practitioners consider important to promote return to work for people with long-term pain. We analyzed the interviews with thematic analysis and a motivational push and pull framework to cover different motivational factors, societal and individual, that might push or pull patients from or toward work. Providers said that a difference between working and nonworking patients is their level of individual motivation, while the patients’ stories showed that the main difference was the physical (non)ability to push themselves to work. We suggest that work-related support can be improved by addressing such differences in clinical practice.

scholarly journals Organizational Culture Beyond Consensus and Clarity: Narratives From Elite Sport

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 288-299
Author(s):  
Michael McDougall ◽  
Noora Ronkainen ◽  
David Richardson ◽  
Martin Littlewood ◽  
Mark Nesti
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Elite Sport ◽  
Narrative Interviews ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Inclusive Concept ◽  
Cultural Content

In sport psychology, organizational culture is usually depicted as shared, consistent, and clear—the glue that holds people together so they can achieve success. There is, however, growing discontent in sport psychology with this idea of culture and extensive critiques in other academic domains that suggest this perspective is limited. Accordingly, the authors draw on narrative interviews with participants (n = 7) from different areas of sport and use Martin and Meyerson’s three perspective (integration, differentiation, and fragmentation) approach to culture alongside thematic analysis to reconstruct three “ideal cases” that exemplify each perspective. The findings emphasize a different pattern of meaning in each actors’ narrative and suggest the need to develop a broader, more inclusive concept of culture, so as not to minimize or dismiss cultural content that is not obviously shared, clear, or created by leadership; a course of action that can enhance both research and practice in the area.

scholarly journals Narrativas de Trabalhadoras Rurais: a Construção da Subalternidade, os Espaços Hierarquizados e a Dominação Colonial

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (97) ◽  
pp. 442-465
Author(s):  
Fernanda Junia Dornela ◽  
Cintia Rodrigues de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Narrative Interviews ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Rural Workers ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Coffee Farming ◽  
Empirical Material

Abstract In this research, our aim is to analyze how gender relations are manifested in the narratives of women rural workers, in coffee farming in the Cerrado Mineiro Region, in a post-colonial perspective. It is a qualitative research, the empirical material of which consists of narrative interviews conducted with 14 rural coffee workers in the municipalities of Patrocínio, Carmo do Paranaíba and Monte Carmelo, in the state of Minas Gerais. The empirical material was submitted to the thematic analysis technique. The results suggest that gender relations are expressed through inheritances of colonialism, which constitute the themes identified: (1) constructed subordination; (2) hierarchical spaces; and (3) colonial domination.

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