Impact of Workplace Factors on Role-Related Stressors and Job Stress Among Community Corrections Staff

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 1204-1228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gayle Rhineberger-Dunn ◽  
Kristin Yagla Mack
Keyword(s):  
Job Stress ◽  
Role Ambiguity ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Community Corrections ◽  
Role Overload ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Parole Officers ◽  
Role Preference ◽  
Role Stressor ◽  
The Impact

Community corrections staff are responsible for supervising more than 4 million offenders nationwide; yet, little research exists on understanding their experiences with role-related stressors and job stress. The purpose of this study was to extend the existing community corrections literature by examining the impact of job characteristics, danger-related factors, and role preference on role-related stressors (i.e., role conflict, role ambiguity, and role overload) and job stress, with a focus on determining whether the relationships varied across specific job positions (i.e., probation/parole vs. residential). Results indicated that each type of role-related stressor was differentially affected by job characteristics, danger-related factors, and role preference, and that these relationships also differed by position. Threat of harm was a significant predictor of each type of role-related stressor for probation/parole officers, but only had a significant effect on role overload for residential officers. Furthermore, safety training had significant effects on role ambiguity and role overload for residential officers, but was not a significant predictor of any role stressor for probation/parole officers. Role preference was significant for both positions, but only for the role overload variable. Most surprisingly, the only variable to predict job stress was role overload.

The Impact of Individual Factors, Job Characteristics, and Organizational Variables on Job Stress and Job Satisfaction Among Community Corrections Staff

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 464-483
Author(s):  
Gayle Rhineberger-Dunn ◽  
Kristin Y. Mack
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Corrections ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Organizational Variables ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Impact

Community corrections (e.g., probation, parole, halfway houses) is the largest correctional placement in the United States, yet little research assesses community corrections staff experiences with job stress and job satisfaction. The purpose of this article is to extend the literature on community corrections officers by assessing the influence of individual factors, job characteristics, and organizational variables on both job stress and job satisfaction. In general, we found that the influence of individual factors and job characteristics differed for job stress compared to job satisfaction. Similarly, the impact of organizational factors on these outcomes also differed, although this was contrary to our expectations. Finally, job stress had a negative effect on job satisfaction and organizational factors had a larger impact on both job stress and job satisfaction, compared to individual and job characteristics. Our results provide a number of possible areas for departments to focus on in order to reduce job stress and increase job satisfaction among probation/parole and residential officers.

scholarly journals ROLE AMBIGUITY, CONFLICT AND OVERLOAD AS PREDICTORS OF EMOTIONAL EXHAUSTION: THE MEDIATION EFFECT OF TEACHING SATISFACTION AND AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (36) ◽  
pp. 37-55
Author(s):  
Khalid Faris Alyamy ◽  
Loh Sau Cheong
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Role Conflict ◽  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Role Ambiguity ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Role Overload ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Affective Engagement ◽  
Teaching Satisfaction ◽  
The Impact

Owing to the emotionally demanding work context, emotional exhaustion is conceived as a general concern in special education. In a group of 216 special education teachers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this research has investigated the direct effect of role ambiguity, role conflict, and role overload on teacher’s emotional exhaustion. Participants completed the scales of emotional exhaustion, role conflict, role Ambiguity, role overload, affective engagement, and teaching satisfaction. Structural Equation Modelling Analysis (SEM) has been adopted for testing the hypotheses of this research. Results indicate that role overload had a positive significant direct impact on emotional exhaustion. Similarly, role conflict shows a positive significant direct impact on emotional exhaustion, whereas role ambiguity has a negligible direct impact on emotional exhaustion. The estimation of the indirect path between measurements of role stressors and emotional exhaustion through teaching contentment reveals that teaching contentment mediates the effect of role conflict on emotional exhaustion. The research suggests that there is no intervention effect of teaching contentment on the impact of role overload on emotional exhaustion and the impact of role overload and role conflict on emotional exhaustion is mediated by affective engagement. The research recommends further studies to explore the direct and indirect effect of role ambiguity on emotional exhaustion.

The Impact of Job Characteristics on Burnout Among Chinese Correctional Workers

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 551-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohong Jin ◽  
Ivan Y. Sun ◽  
Shanhe Jiang ◽  
Yongchun Wang ◽  
Shufang Wen
Keyword(s):  
Role Conflict ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Correctional Officers ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Community Correction ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Role Clarity ◽  
Occupational Burnout ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact

Job burnout has long been recognized as a common occupational hazard among correctional workers. Although past studies have investigated the effects of job-related characteristics on correctional staff burnout in Western societies, this line of research has largely been absent from the literature on community corrections in China. Using data collected from 225 community correction workers in a Chinese province, this study assessed the effects of positive and negative job characteristics on occupational burnout. Positive job characteristics included job autonomy, procedural justice, and role clarity. Negative characteristics included role conflict, job stress, and job dangerousness. As expected, role clarity tended to reduce burnout, whereas role conflict, job stress, and job dangerousness were likely to produce greater burnout among Chinese community correction workers. Male correctional officers were also subjected to a higher level of burnout than their female coworkers. Implications for future research and policy were discussed.

A Two-Wave Study of the Impact of Job Characteristics and Motivators on Perceived Stress among Information Technology (IT) Consultants

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 75-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Göran Wallgren ◽  
Jan Johansson Hanse
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Work Motivation ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Job Demand ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this two-wave study was to test whether job characteristics (job demand, job control), with ‘motivators’ (e.g., recognition, achievement, possibility for growth) as the mediating variable, can predict perceived stress (e.g., stressed, tense). These relationships were tested simultaneously using structural equation modeling analyses. A web-based questionnaire survey was conducted among 320 information technology (IT) consultants in Sweden. Data were collected at two time points, over a six-month follow-up period. Cross-sectional studies have been presented earlier but one of the contributions of this study is that it is a two-wave data set. The present two-wave study uses a model which covers more information than a cross-sectional design and the results add another aspect to existing work motivation and stress research, by using a longitudinal data set, and relating job characteristics to perceived stress directly and indirect. These findings emphasize the importance of job demand and illuminate the role of motivators in the experience of job stress among IT consultants. The presented model can be used to examine potential causes of job stress among IT consultants and may generate important lessons for managing the general workforce of tomorrow.

scholarly journals TEACHER JOB STRESS IN ALBANIA: EXAMINING THE ROLE OF STUDENTS’ CLASSROOM DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR AND OTHER FACTORS IN THE SCHOOL CONTEXT

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
Stela Karaj ◽  
Elida Rapti
Keyword(s):  
Disruptive Behavior ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Time Pressure ◽  
Teacher Stress ◽  
School Context ◽  
School Principal ◽  
Disruptive Behaviour ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of the students’ disruptive behavior and other factors in the school context on the teachers’ job stress. For this purpose a survey based descriptive research was conducted with 540 basic education teachers. The instrument used was a structured questionnaire which was comprised of four scales for measuring teacher stress, students’ disruptive behavior, time pressure and workload, relations with school principal and relations with colleagues. Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient was used to determine the direction and the strength of the relationships between the teachers’ job stress and the stress related factors. Standard multiple regression was used to determine the amount of variability on teachers’ job stress explained by the independent factors involved in the study. The study findings indicated low to substantial correlations between teachers’ job stress, students’ disruptive behaviour, time pressure and workload, relations with school principal and relations with colleagues. Students’ disruptive behaviour, time pressure and workload and relations with school principal were found to be significant predictors of teachers’ job stress. Relations with colleagues were not found to be a significant predictor of teacher stress. Key words: relation with colleagues, relation with school principal, students’ disruptive behavior, teacher job stress, time pressure and workload.

scholarly journals NEGATIVE FACTORS AND ITS EFFECT TOWARDS JOB SATISFACTION OF NURSES

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 281
Author(s):  
Desti Ranihusna ◽  
Nury Ariani Wulansari ◽  
Dikha Karuma Asiari ◽  
Reza Enindra Syahputra
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Role Conflict ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Role Ambiguity ◽  
Role Overload ◽  
Performance Variables ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Quantitative Design ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Negative Factors

<p>The primary function of nurses in inpatient services is to provide optimal services for patients with serious illnesses.Therefore, nurses’ job satisfaction should not be taken for granted. The role overload can influence job satisfaction at workplaces. The role overloaand job stress have negative effect. However, the nurses can still have job satisfaction, if the role overload is at low level. The other factor that influences job satisfaction is role ambiguity. The aim of this study is to analyze the factors that determine job satisfaction of nurses, work at the hospital and the job stress impacts on job satisfaction. The samples of this study were 170 respondents. This study applied quantitative design with path analysis. The role overload and job stress have negative and significant influence on job satisfaction. The role overload and role ambiguity have a positive and significant impact on job stress. The role ambiguity does not influence job satisfaction. Job stress mediates the role ambiguity to job satisfaction. The next research can develop variables that can mediate the influence of role ambiguity and role conflict on job satisfaction, for example, burnout and performance variables.</p>

scholarly journals Pengaruh Role Stressor Terhadap Burnout dan Perbedaan Burnout Berdasarkan Gender: Studi Empiris pada Mahasiswa

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lina ◽  
Budi Hartono Kusuma
Keyword(s):  
Role Conflict ◽  
Role Ambiguity ◽  
Private University ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Role Overload ◽  
Role Stressors ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Role Stressor ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Positive Effect

This study aims to provide empirical evidence about the positive effects of role stressors on burnout. Role stressor consists of role conflict, role ambiguity, and role overload. This study also wants to prove the difference level of burnout based on gender. The research data is the primary data that are obtained through the distribution of questionnaires to the respondents. The respondents were selected by using purposive sampling method. The specified criteria are as follows: last year students from undergradate accounting program at a private university in Tangerang. Hypothesis testing using multiple regression test and independent sample t test. The results revealed that role ambiguity and role overload have positive effect on burnout meanwhile role conflict has no effect on burnout. Differences in burnout based on gender can not be proven through the results of this study. Keywords: Role Stressor, Burnout, Gender

scholarly journals Differences of Cyberloafing Behavior Outcomes on Men and Women Employees

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-132
Author(s):  
Rauly Sijabat
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Work Behavior ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Women Employees ◽  
Endogenous Variables ◽  
The Impact

The activities of reading news, chatting, viewing YouTube and Facebook or even status updates, Instagram, buying and selling online, to playing online games that are not related to work by using internet facilities are cyberloafing behaviors that are often carried out by employees. The limitations of previous research examining the impact of cyberloafing on work behavior empirically are still very limited. In addition, previous research that explains the occurrence of cyberloafing behavior also shows results that have not been established. Encouraged by these findings, this study aimed to examine the factors that explain cyberloafing behavior and its impact on employees' organizational behavior. To meet these objectives, an empirical model was developed with job characteristics and self-control variables as exogenous variables, job stress and cyberloafing as mediating variables and laziness as endogenous variables. Testing the influence between these variables was carried out with an analytical approach to Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) which used empirical data obtained through questionnaires as an interview guide to employee respondents in various fields of work. The results of data analysis showed that job characteristics, self control, and job stress were statistically proven to have an effect on cyberloafing behavior. Cyberloafing testing on negative organizational behavior, namely laziness also shows a real influence. In addition, the results of this study also show that there are differences in prevalence caused by cyberloafing behavior between male and female employees.

scholarly journals Impact of Role Conflict and Role Ambiguity on Job Satisfaction the Mediating Effect of Job Stress and Moderating Effect of Islamic Work Ethics

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Junaid Ahmad ◽  
Sawira Zahid ◽  
Fatima Fazali Wahid ◽  
Sabir Ali
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Role Conflict ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Role Ambiguity ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Work Ethics ◽  
The Impact

The main idea behind this study is to examine the impact of role ambiguity and role conflict on job satisfaction. This study also assesses the moderating effect of Islamic work ethics, role ambiguity, role conflict and also examine the mediating effect of job stress between role ambiguity, role conflict and job satisfaction. The questionnaire was used for data collection. 200 questionnaires were distributed among respondent out of which 175 were used for data analysis statistically descriptive statistics correlation and regression analysis were used for testing hypothesis. The finding of this study reveal that the role conflict has a negative relationship with job satisfaction and job stress has an insignificant relationship with the job satisfaction. This study also reveal that the role stressor should be controlled so that an increase in job satisfaction. When both role ambiguity and role conflict increase job stress also increase and the Islamic work ethics has a negative impact on job stress. Job stress significantly partially mediate the relationship between role conflict and job satisfaction.

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