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The great pretenders? Individuals’ responses to threats to their remote worker identities

INTRODUCTION: This study aims to understand (a) how remote workers respond to threats to their identity and (b) the conditions in which each coping response tends to occur more frequently. METHODS: To this end, we pursued a grounded theory approach, conducting interviews with 71 individuals who chos...

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Autores principales: Felix, Bruno, Tiussi, Bruno Lorencini, Mahadevan, Jasmin, Dias, Rogério Correia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10657870/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38022977
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1224548
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description INTRODUCTION: This study aims to understand (a) how remote workers respond to threats to their identity and (b) the conditions in which each coping response tends to occur more frequently. METHODS: To this end, we pursued a grounded theory approach, conducting interviews with 71 individuals who chose to work remotely. RESULTS: Our model and theoretical propositions create insights into how remote workers respond to negative stigma from a range of origins. While some responses lead to restructuring the remote workers’ identity (identity restructuring responses), others involve keeping the enactment of such identity (identity-preserving responses) or maintaining a paradoxical relationship between restructuring and preserving the identity (paradoxical identity work responses). We also theorise on the conditions under which each response is more likely to occur. DISCUSSION: We expand the predominant focus on the meso and macro aspects of this type of work to the micro-interactions in which these individuals engage, thus highlighting how identity is made, performed, created, and enacted, within specific boundary conditions. In addition, by reflecting upon remote workers’ identity threats in light of the wider macro context. We also explore the conditions under which specific kinds of responses tend to emerge.
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spelling pubmed-106578702023-11-06 The great pretenders? Individuals’ responses to threats to their remote worker identities Felix, Bruno Tiussi, Bruno Lorencini Mahadevan, Jasmin Dias, Rogério Correia Front Psychol Psychology INTRODUCTION: This study aims to understand (a) how remote workers respond to threats to their identity and (b) the conditions in which each coping response tends to occur more frequently. METHODS: To this end, we pursued a grounded theory approach, conducting interviews with 71 individuals who chose to work remotely. RESULTS: Our model and theoretical propositions create insights into how remote workers respond to negative stigma from a range of origins. While some responses lead to restructuring the remote workers’ identity (identity restructuring responses), others involve keeping the enactment of such identity (identity-preserving responses) or maintaining a paradoxical relationship between restructuring and preserving the identity (paradoxical identity work responses). We also theorise on the conditions under which each response is more likely to occur. DISCUSSION: We expand the predominant focus on the meso and macro aspects of this type of work to the micro-interactions in which these individuals engage, thus highlighting how identity is made, performed, created, and enacted, within specific boundary conditions. In addition, by reflecting upon remote workers’ identity threats in light of the wider macro context. We also explore the conditions under which specific kinds of responses tend to emerge. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10657870/ /pubmed/38022977 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1224548 Text en Copyright © 2023 Felix, Tiussi, Mahadevan and Dias. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38022977
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1224548
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