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The construction of self as caring : = Personal care workers in home care with elderly clients.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The construction of self as caring :/
Reminder of title:	Personal care workers in home care with elderly clients.
Author:	Picard, Nancy Marie.
Description:	1 online resource (347 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 62-07, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International62-07B.
Subject:	Personality. -
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ISBN:	9780599901568

The construction of self as caring : = Personal care workers in home care with elderly clients.
Picard, Nancy Marie.

The construction of self as caring :Personal care workers in home care with elderly clients. - 1 online resource (347 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 62-07, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation has developed a theory about how people who do the work of personal care for frail elderly individuals in their homes construct and maintain the symbol of the caring self. The qualitative method of analysis employed was grounded theory. The core theme or social process discovered across the interviews is the construction and maintenance of the self who "cares" in the work. Personal care workers view part of their work in caring for the frail elderly in their homes as maintaining that constructed sense of self who cares, without which they could not do the job. Furthermore, when they cannot do the job, they lose a sense of themselves as people who care, which results in consequential behaviors, including engaging in forbidden tasks to quitting their positions. Therefore, in order to perform the work of personal care, constructing the self as caring becomes part of the work itself. The theory of the constructed self as caring is based on the assumption of the construction of self posited within a social environment, as originated by Mead (1934). The process of the construction of self occurs wherein the individual interacts with others (i.e. acts toward something or someone), and then interprets the consequences of that interaction and therefore makes meaning of that interaction. Five primary conditions were found that affect how personal care workers organize their experiences around the core theme of constructing and maintaining the definition of a caring self. The five primary conditions discovered were task, location of the work, time, client response, and location. There were dimensions of each condition, which were as follows: task (mandated, discretionary, forbidden); location of work (adjusted expectations, existing structures, created structures); time (defining possibilities and limitations, including the sub-dimensions of duration, frequency, time of day, client's perception, pacing services, limited time, and personal development); client response (type of condition and type of response); and, administration (location of work, responsibility, communication within the team, training, payment).

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ISBN: 9780599901568Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Personality.
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