There is now a substantial body of literature on the coping strategies used by workers employed in stigmatized dirty work. However, there is insufficient knowledge about what resources they use while employing these strategies, what factors impact resource availability and utilization for coping, and how the utilization of resources leads to differential coping. Our study fills these gaps. First, using meta-synthesis of 39 qualitative studies, we consolidate the resources these workers use to cope into six categories. Second, the study discusses what factors impact resource availability and utilization by proposing the role of occupational prestige as a determining factor. Third, borrowing from conservation of resources theory and self-affirmation theory, this study proposes resources as facilitators of self-affirmations leading to differential coping. Finally, we propose a conceptual framework along with propositions depicting how dissonance, caused by inconsistency in self-integrity, leads to the use of various resources for differential coping.

现在有大量关于受雇于污名化的肮脏工作的工人所使用的应对策略的文献。然而，对于他们在采用这些策略时使用了哪些资源、哪些因素会影响应对资源的可用性和利用以及资源的利用如何导致差异应对等方面的知识不足。我们的研究填补了这些空白。首先，使用 39 项定性研究的元综合，我们将这些工人用来应对的资源整合为六类。其次，该研究通过提出职业声望作为决定因素的作用，讨论了哪些因素会影响资源的可用性和利用率。第三，借鉴资源节约理论和自我肯定理论，本研究建议将资源作为自我肯定的促进者，从而导致差异应对。最后，我们提出了一个概念框架以及描述由自我完整性不一致引起的失调如何导致使用各种资源进行差异应对的命题。