'Engaged, Burned Out, or Both?' A Structural Equation Model Testing Risk and Protective Factors for Social Workers in Refugee and Homeless Aid
| Autor: | Albert Nienhaus, Tanja Wirth, Stefanie Mache, Volker Harth, Janika Mette, Swantje Robelski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Male work engagement Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Refugee media_common.quotation_subject Social Workers lcsh:Medicine Burnout Job Satisfaction Article Structural equation modeling 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Germany 0502 economics and business Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Burnout Professional resilience media_common Refugees Social work social work working conditions Work engagement lcsh:R 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Middle Aged Models Theoretical Protective Factors Cross-Sectional Studies Health promotion Work (electrical) Ill-Housed Persons personal burnout Health Resources Female Psychological resilience Psychology Social psychology 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Volume 17 Issue 2 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 2, p 583 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 1660-4601 |
| Popis: | The present study sheds light on social workers&rsquo working conditions in highly demanding settings and examines the associations between their perceived job demands, resources, resilience, personal burnout, and work engagement. A cross-sectional quantitative online survey was conducted with employees in social work institutions of independent and public sponsors providing help for refugees and homeless persons. The study participants were 243 social workers (68.8% female and 31.3% male) from four federal states in Germany. Correlations between social workers&rsquo job demands, resources, burnout, and work engagement were confirmed in accordance with the Job Demands&ndash Resources model. Results of the structural equation modelling revealed significant positive effects of employees&rsquo job demands on their personal burnout, but no significant effects on their work engagement. The meaning of work as a job resource was significantly positively related to work engagement and negatively related to burnout. Although resilience did not moderate the relationship between employees&rsquo job demands and burnout, it had a significant negative effect on burnout and a positive effect on work engagement. The results indicate a need for the development of health promotion measures for social workers in homeless and refugee aid. Structural approaches should target the reduction of employees&rsquo job demands to diminish their potentially health-depleting effects. Of equal importance, behavioural measures should foster employees&rsquo meaning of work and resilience, since both resources showed beneficial effects on their work engagement and were negatively related to burnout. |
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