Undignified Dignity: Using Humor to Manage the Stigma of Mental Illness and Homelessness

Constituting Resilience at Work: Maintaining Dialectics and Cultivating Dignity throughout a Worksite Closure

“…This finding suggests that employees experiencing a shared dignity threat such as job insecurity can cultivate dignity through finding purpose, carving out spaces for agency, and treating one another humanely. This confirms Jensen's (2018) finding that a culture of dignity can help manage stigma.…”

“…One threat to dignity especially relevant to this study is reification, which Lucas defined as "when people are treated as bundles of human resources that are replaceable, expendable, and disposable, instead of as human beings who have value that transcends the workplace" (Lucas, 2015, p. 626, emphasis in original). Research on dignity focuses primarily on employees' experiences of indignity and provides "very little understanding of dignity as a positive experience" (Lucas, 2015, p. 625; for a notable exception, see Jensen, 2018).…”

Coping amidst an assemblage of disadvantage: A qualitative metasynthesis of first‐person accounts of managing severe mental illness while homeless

“…The total number of participants with lived experience in the current sample of studies is 377 (52% female; Note: One study, Jensen (2017), did not report gender characteristics of the sample). The sample sizes range from one to 61.…”

“…To demonstrate, while some participants emphasized the maintenance of optimism, pride and dignity, and normalized their experience of SMI (e.g. Paul et al, 2018;Gopikumar et al, 2015;Leipersberger, 2007;Bonugli et al, 2013), and identifying productive emotional releases (Jensen, 2017), others tended to report a range of behavioural strategies-such as engaging in peer support (Stanhope & Henwood, 2014), seeking formal help with medication management and seeking refuge (Muir-Cochrane et al, 2016;Stolte & Hodgetts, 2013), and staying active and engaging in various occupational activities (Illman et al, 2013;Stolte & Hodgetts, 2013).…”

Managing occupational identity threats and job turnover: How former and current fundraisers manage moments of stigmatized identities

“…In other words, the reputation of the profession overall may suffer more from this use of humor than from the first type. However, Jensen () has discussed how what he called transgressive humor can create a sense of undignified dignity for the user, which may be useful for allowing the fundraiser to continue engaging in the work. Both of these uses of humor seem quite powerful, yet the first focuses on making someone else comfortable, while the latter focuses on making the fundraiser comfortable.…”