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Qualitative interviews reveal highly resilient caregivers resist overwork pressures, suggesting that prioritizing rest fosters resilience.
Are highly resilient caregivers more compliant with overwork norms? This study explores how highly communicatively resilient professional caregivers (positive deviants, PD) resist the ideal worker norm (IWN) and biocratic control through rest. 11 PD caregivers were interviewed about work-life norms. Negative deviants (ND) were interviewed as a comparison. Analysis revealed that PD caregivers resisted biocratic control and overwork expectations by protecting and prioritizing rest. These findings identify a positive resistance practice: rest. They also suggest that resistance to work primacy pressures can actually foster resilience. The study contributes to the resilience, IWN, control and resistance, and rest literatures.s
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