Research On The Mechanism And The Effect Of Caregivers’Perception Of Work Dirtiness

Dirty work is considered to be a physiologically,socially,or morally stigmatizing task,which often brings unpleasant and detrimental work experience to individuals engaged in the profession.Through qualitative research,many dirty work scholars have noticed that these negative work experiences have made dirty work practitioners greatly disagree with their occupations and adversely affect their work results.At the same time,researchers also found that dirty workers will seek a positive professional identity from dirty work through a series of stigma management strategies.This kind of professional recognition that neither agrees nor has to agree with dirty work is called ambivalent professional identification.Despite the increasing number and importance of caregivers,little is known about how the ambivalent professional identification(both occupational disidentification and forced professional identification)caused by caregivers’ perception of job filth affects their work attitude.Therefore,it is of great significance to explore the cognitive mechanism of caregivers’ perception of the degree of dirty work,and to disagree with their negative occupations and establish a good working attitude.This study uses case analysis and empirical analysis to understand the whole process of the impact of the identification path on the work attitude of caregivers in dirty work.First,drawing on the research methods of Grounded Theory,this study conducted a semi-structured interview with several caregivers from different departments of the hospital,using data coding to develop a rough model framework;second,through Social Identity Theory and System Justification theory,the research discusses hypothesis of each path under the model framework and analyzes the quantitative data.After collecting questionnaires in two stages,this study used 181 data of caregivers from multiple medical institutions to examine the main effects of caregivers’ perceived job dirtiness on job burnout and job satisfaction,and the mediating effects of occupational identification and occupational disidentification.And the moderating effect of sense of power and dispositional optimism.The results show that: care givers ’perception of work dirtiness is positively correlated with job burnout;occupational identification and occupational disidentification mediate the relationship between caregivers’ perceived work dirtiness and job burnout and job satisfaction;sense of power moderates career identification and The relationship between job burnout and job satisfaction;dispositional optimism also moderates the relationship between occupational identification and job burnout.The results of this study not only explore the internal intermediary mechanism of dirty workers ’perception of the impact of occupational stigma on work attitudes,indicating that practitioners’ perception of dirty work is neither a simple occupational disidentification nor a complete occupation identification,but a complex and contradictory state of occupational identification;at the same time,it also finds the boundary conditions that affect the relationship between practitioners ’professional cognition and work attitudes-sense of power and dispositional optimism,which helps dirty workers enhance positive professional awareness and ease negative professional attitude.This research uses a mixed research method to enrich the research results of dirty work,and also provides effective practical guidance for managers in the dirty work industry.