Gauging Visibility
How Female Clerical Workers Manage Work-Related Distress
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4620428 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bonita C Long (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,, corresponding author), Wendy A Hall (0000-0002-3816-2908, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), Nicole Bermbach (University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada), Sharalyn Jordan (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), Kathryn Patterson (Vancouver Coastal Health, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1413-1428 |
| Publication date | 2008-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Health Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1049732308322604 |
| PMID | 18667641 |
| OpenAlex | W2117517883 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 37 |
Our aim was to explain how female clerical workers manage work-related distress, using a feminist grounded theory method. Thirty-seven interviews were conducted with 24 female clerical workers. They engage in the process of gauging visibility to manage a recognition-vulnerability paradox. To gauge visibility, they take the lay of the land by attending to threats, resources, and supports within withering or flourishing work conditions. When distressing events occur, they select tactics of taking it in, taking it on, or letting it go, which are influenced by the quality of their work conditions. Their efforts to manage distress affect their workplace visibility, potentially enhancing their recognition or exacerbating their vulnerability. Gauging visibility can either diminish or enhance employees' health and well-being. Our findings emphasize social processes and structural conditions, shift attention to organization-wide efforts to alter workplace conditions, and suggest initiatives that enhance employees' opportunities for recognition, safety, and collective actions
Computer security · Distress · Flourishing · Geography · Grounded theory · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Sociology · Visibility · Clinical Psychology · Communication · Computer Science · Emotional Labor in Professions · Engineering · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
Feminist methods in social research
The Subtlety of Emotions
Hiding feelings
The role of coping responses and social resources in attenuating the stress of life events
Psychological Conditions of Personal Engagement and Disengagement at Work.
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Socioeconomic Status and Stress-Related Biological Responses Over the Working Day
Gender, class, work‐related stress and health
Work and non‐work correlates of illness and behaviour in male and female Swedish white collar workers
The costs, benefits, and limitations of organizational level stress interventions
Looking Beyond Numbers
Gender Differences in Clerical Workers' Disputes over Tasks, Interpersonal Treatment, and Emotion
Adjustment to threatening events
Social Relationships and Health
Personal and contextual determinants of coping strategies
Achieving a Sense of Control in a Context of Uncertainty
Habitus, Stress, and the Body
Qualitative Teamwork Issues and Strategies
An Application of the Transactional Model to the Analysis of Chronic Illness Narratives
The Sociological Study of Stress
The Future of Women and Work
Brief Communication
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |