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Job-strain and well-being among Finnish social workers: exploring the differences in occupational well-being between child protection social workers and social workers without duties in child protection.
- Source :
- European Journal of Social Work; Jan2019, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p43-58, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Work-related mental distress and its impact on employees' working life is a mounting issue among Finnish social workers. This article focuses on identifying the factors associated with child welfare social workers' occupational well-being. The occupational well-being of Finnish child welfare social workers (N = 364) and social workers whose duties do not include child protection work (N = 524) was explored and compared with each other using t-test statistics and logistic regression analysis. The data, collected in 2014/2015, were obtained from an ongoing longitudinal cohort study on work-related well-being among Finnish public sector employees. A multi-dimensional and holistic approach to occupational well-being was used as the outline for the analysis and comparison of the two groups. Child protection social workers reported higher levels of burnout and secondary traumatic stress than social workers without child protection duties. Despite these burdens, both groups showed a similar level of general health, compassion satisfaction and overall occupational well-being. Individual and organizational factors associated with high occupational well-being were identified. Supervision was found to be an important supporting element. This study identified multiple determinants related to social workers' occupational well-being, comprising positive and negative elements with regard to organizational and individual factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CHILD welfare
AGE distribution
PSYCHOLOGICAL burnout
COMPARATIVE studies
CONFIDENCE intervals
STATISTICAL correlation
EXPERIENTIAL learning
JOB descriptions
JOB stress
QUESTIONNAIRES
SEX distribution
SOCIAL services
PSYCHOLOGY of social workers
T-test (Statistics)
WORK
LOGISTIC regression analysis
PROFESSIONAL practice
OCCUPATIONAL roles
SECONDARY analysis
WELL-being
STRUCTURAL equation modeling
DATA analysis software
SOCIAL worker attitudes
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
PSYCHOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13691457
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- European Journal of Social Work
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 133897395
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2017.1357025