Cuidando la salud mental de los voluntarios humanitarios en contextos traumáticosCaring for the mental health of humanitarian volunteers in traumatic contexts:la importancia del apoyo organizacionalthe importance of organisational support
| Autor: | Jamie Murphy, Kinan Aldamman, Nana Wiedemann, Trina Tamrakar, Frédérique Vallières, Cecilie Dinesen, Tracey Reid, Maj Hansen, Elsheikh Elsiddig Badr |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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050103 clinical psychology
• Perceived organizational support is associated with both negative and positive aspects of humanitarian volunteers’ mental health.• Perceived psychological stress factors including perceived helplessness and perceived self-efficacy mediate the relationship between perceived organizational support and mental health.• Supervision and team support as key components of managerial systems are essential contributors to perceived organizational support within the humanitarian sector.• Organizational support theory is a useful framework to understand how organizational factors contribute to the well-being of humanitarian workers especially volunteers 志愿者 lcsh:RC435-571 苏丹 trabajadores humanitarios Learned helplessness 心理健康 volunteer bienestar Sudán Sudan The Context of Psychotrauma among Distinct Trauma-Exposed Populations well-being lcsh:Psychiatry 0502 economics and business medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Voluntario estrés laboral emergency contexts contextos de emergencia 紧急情况 Volunteer health care economics and organizations 组织支持 工作压力 05 social sciences organizational support Mental illness medicine.disease Mental health 身心健康 apoyo organizacional salud mental Patient Health Questionnaire Distress 人道主义工作者 Scale (social sciences) Well-being work-related stress Psychology humanitarian workers Perceived organizational support 050203 business & management mental health Clinical psychology sudan |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Psychotraumatology, Vol 10, Iss 1 (2019) Aldamman, K, Tamrakar, T, Dinesen, C, Wiedemann, N, Murphy, J, Hansen, M, Badr, E E, Reid, T & Vallieres, F 2019, ' Caring for the mental health of humanitarian volunteers in traumatic contexts : the importance of organisational support ', European Journal of Psychotraumatology, bind 10, nr. 1, 1694811 . https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2019.1694811 European Journal of Psychotraumatology |
| ISSN: | 2000-8066 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/20008198.2019.1694811 |
| Popis: | Background: Humanitarian workers operate in traumatic contexts, putting them at an increased risk of adverse mental health outcomes. The quality of the support they receive from their organization, their supervisor, and team members are proposed as determinants of mental illness and well-being, via the stress-appraisal process. Objective: Grounded in organizational support theory, we sought to understand the relationship between organizational factors, including perceived organizational support, supervisor support, and team support, and indicators of both adverse mental health and mental well-being among humanitarian volunteers. This relationship is hypothesized to be mediated by the perceived psychological stress. Methods: A sample of 409 humanitarian volunteers from the Sudanese Red Crescent Society completed an online, anonymous, survey comprised of the Perceived Supervision, Perceived Organizational Support, Team Support, and Perceived Psychological Stress scales, as well as the Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Patient Health Questionnaire scales, (GAD-7 and PHQ- 8), and the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale. Study objectives were tested using structural equation modelling (SEM) procedures. Results: Perceived helplessness (PH) and perceived self-efficacy (PSE), as measures of psychological stress, were both found to fully mediate the relationship between perceived organizational support and mental health outcomes. Perceived organizational support was associated with PSE and inversely with PH. PH was associated with adverse mental health and inversely related to mental well-being. PSE was only associated with mental well-being. Perceived supervision was negatively associated with PSE. Conclusions: Perceived organizational support is a key determinant of the mental health of humanitarian volunteers, with greater perceived support associated with lower distress symptomology and greater mental well-being. Humanitarian agencies should take actions to improve their internal organization support systems to mitigate the stress associated with working in traumatic contexts. Specifically, more attention should be paid to the organizational support of the volunteers as front-line workers in humanitarian settings. • Perceived organizational support is associated with both negative and positive aspects of humanitarian volunteers’ mental health.• Perceived psychological stress factors, including perceived helplessness and perceived self-efficacy, mediate the relationship between perceived organizational support and mental health.• Supervision and team support, as key components of managerial systems, are essential contributors to perceived organizational support within the humanitarian sector.• Organizational support theory is a useful framework to understand how organizational factors contribute to the well-being of humanitarian workers, especially volunteers. |
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