Current State of Studies on Job-related Stress among Psychiatric Social Workers and Insights into Future Research

Abstract: Academicians are commonly associated with academic tasks of teaching and research. However, recent scenario reveals that academicians’ workloads are not restricted to merely academic tasks. Academicians also hold administrative positions, involved with students’ development activities, community services and professional development. Shouldering with numerous responsibilities, academicians may be stressful to prioritize the assigned tasks and meeting deadlines. This necessitates serious attention to ensure that academicians can focus on the assigned responsibilities and perform their best. Thus, this study attempts to establish a relationship between academic and non-academic responsibilities with job-related stress among academicians. Through survey method, 120 usable responses received out of 391 questionnaires distributed to academicians in a public university. Using SPSS, a preliminary analysis indicates that the respondents were moderately stressful with their job. However, multiple regressions test demonstrates that job-related stress is not influenced by academic responsibilities but marginally contributed by non-academic responsibilities. The findings give insights to the university management on academicians’ reaction to their present job tasks and useful as guidance in any efforts or policy towards academicians’ workload setting. However, this study is confined to only one public university in the East coast region of Malaysia. Thus, future research may be expanded to the public universities in the West region of Malaysia with different working environment and lifestyle. Keywords Academicians, Academic Responsibilities, Non-academic responsibilities, Job-related Stress, Teaching workloads

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Reducing social worker burnout during COVID-19

International Social Work ◽

10.1177/0020872820962196 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 63 (6) ◽

pp. 757-760

Author(s):

Micaela Peinado ◽

Kelly N Anderson

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Workers ◽

Social Worker ◽

Current Climate ◽

Related Stress ◽

Job Related Stress

Burnout has become part of everyday vocabulary. During the time of COVID-19, burnout is no longer exclusively associated with job-related stress. Our current climate is entrenched with unprecedented levels of varying societal stressors. Particularly during this time, social workers should prioritize their own mental health. This is necessary in order to have continued success when working with others. This article proposes interventions for social workers to implement in order to combat burnout during the time of COVID-19.

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Using Humor in Practice Relationships

The Dynamics of the Social Worker-Client Relationship ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197517956.003.0013 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 231-251

Author(s):

Joseph Walsh

Keyword(s):

Social Workers ◽

Emotional Experience ◽

Client Relationship ◽

Related Stress ◽

Job Related Stress

People communicate their thoughts and feelings in many ways, one of which is through humor. Humor can be understood as a feature of any interaction that is intended to be amusing, and the desired result is a positive shared emotional experience that builds feelings of affinity. Thus, shared humor can at times positively affect the quality of a worker/client relationship. Using humor can be risky, however, because the kinds of issues social workers deal with are quite serious, and using humor in those contexts might be perceived as insensitive. The purpose of this chapter is to consider the benefits and risks of using humor as a means of positively advancing relationships with clients. The chapter also examines social workers’ use of gallows (or “backstage”) humor as a means of coping with their job-related stress.

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Stress, Emotion Regulation, and Well-Being among Canadian Faculty Members in Research-Intensive Universities

Social Sciences ◽

10.3390/socsci9120227 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (12) ◽

pp. 227

Author(s):

Raheleh Salimzadeh ◽

Nathan C. Hall ◽

Alenoush Saroyan

Keyword(s):

Emotion Regulation ◽

Positive Emotions ◽

Negative Emotions ◽

Well Being ◽

Faculty Members ◽

Future Research ◽

Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽

Regulation Strategies ◽

Related Stress ◽

Job Related Stress

Existing research reveals the academic profession to be stressful and emotion-laden. Recent evidence further shows job-related stress and emotion regulation to impact faculty well-being and productivity. The present study recruited 414 Canadian faculty members from 13 English-speaking research-intensive universities. We examined the associations between perceived stressors, emotion regulation strategies, including reappraisal, suppression, adaptive upregulation of positive emotions, maladaptive downregulation of positive emotions, as well as adaptive and maladaptive downregulation of negative emotions, and well-being outcomes (emotional exhaustion, job satisfaction, quitting intentions, psychological maladjustment, and illness symptoms). Additionally, the study explored the moderating role of stress, gender, and years of experience in the link between emotion regulation and well-being as well as the interactions between adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies in predicting well-being. The results revealed that cognitive reappraisal was a health-beneficial strategy, whereas suppression and maladaptive strategies for downregulating positive and negative emotions were detrimental. Strategies previously defined as adaptive for downregulating negative emotions and upregulating positive emotions did not significantly predict well-being. In contrast, strategies for downregulating negative emotions previously defined as dysfunctional showed the strongest maladaptive associations with ill health. Practical implications and directions for future research are also discussed.

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Examining the Offender–Victim Overlap Among Police Officers:The Role of Social Learning and Job-Related Stress

Violence and Victims ◽

10.1891/0886-6708.vv-d-12-00066 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 28 (4) ◽

pp. 731-748 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Egbert Zavala

Keyword(s):

Child Maltreatment ◽

Police Officers ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Negative Emotions ◽

Future Research ◽

Parental Violence ◽

Logistic Regression Models ◽

Related Stress ◽

Job Related Stress

This study uses data from the Police Stress and Domestic Violence in Police Families in Baltimore, Maryland 1997–1999 to examine the offender–victim overlap among police officers in the context of intimate partner violence (IPV). Specifically, the study examines the role of parental violence, child maltreatment, and job-related stress on perpetrating violence and victimization. Results from two logistic regression models indicate that one element of job-related stress (negative emotions) was positive and significant in predicting IPV perpetration, whereas parental violence, child maltreatment, and negative emotions were found to be positive and significant in predicting victimization. The study’s limitations and future research are discussed.

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How do working conditions affect the turnover intention of medical social workers in China?

BMC Health Services Research ◽

10.1186/s12913-021-07435-8 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Na Li ◽

Jin Peng ◽

Rui Yang

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Social Work ◽

Social Workers ◽

Working Conditions ◽

Turnover Intention ◽

Medical Service ◽

Medical Social Work ◽

Related Stress ◽

Job Related Stress ◽

Service Field

Abstract Background The development of medical social work is an indispensable part of the Healthy China Strategy. However, the medical service field has the fewest social workers in all service fields in China. Creating favorable working conditions can reduce the turnover intention of social workers in the medical service field. So it is necessary to integrate the existing theoretical models to deeply analyze the multiple influencing paths of working conditions on the medical social workers’ turnover intention in the context of China. Methods The data we used came from the China Social Work Longitudinal Survey (CSWLS) conducted in 56 cities across the country in 2019. It adopted a multi-stage random sampling method and the sample of medical social workers was selected according to their current service field and the sample size finally entering the model was 382. We tested the relationships with the Structural Equation Model (SEM) by STATA 16.0. Results Job-related stress play the most significant role in explaining the formation mechanism of medical social workers’ turnover intention. On the one hand, job-related stress can reduce the job satisfaction of medical social workers, further increasing their turnover intention; on the other hand, job-related stress can increase job burnout of medical social workers, further reducing their job satisfaction and ultimately increasing the turnover intention. Job satisfaction plays a full mediating effect between the job burnout of medical social workers and their turnover intention. The social support and job autonomy provided by social work agencies have limited effects on decreasing the turnover intention of medical social workers. Conclusions The two paths of job-related stress affecting turnover intention successfully integrate the Job Demands-Resources Model and the Price-Mueller Turnover Model into the same theoretical framework providing a theoretical basis for reducing the turnover intention and behavior of social workers in the medical service field, improving the management level in the medical service system and promoting the overall healthy and sustainable development of medical social work in China.

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How can assessment systems be used to evaluate healthcare activities in the care farms?

European Journal of Management Issues ◽

10.15421/191805 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (1-2) ◽

pp. 39-47

Author(s):

F. P. Salvatore ◽

F. Contò

Keyword(s):

Design Method ◽

Assessment System ◽

Future Research ◽

Social Policies ◽

Marginal Areas ◽

Assessment Systems ◽

Rural World ◽

Related Stress ◽

Definition Of ◽

Job Related Stress

Purpose – to identify in the literature the main activities of Social Agriculture and elaborate a framework easily readable to manage them. Design/Method/Approach –systematic literature review. Findings. Formulation of an interpretative framework for evaluation and management of the existing Social Agriculture actions trough a system-describing pattern. Theoretical implications. Care farms are the most innovative expressions of the agriculture multifunctional. Through the development of complementary activities related to the production of food, they represent an opportunity to discover the innumerable resources of the rural world. An assessment system of the care farming activities, allows for reaching a clear definition of the services for the citizens. Practical implications. Individuals can use Social Agriculture as a way out of job-related stress. Firms, local, and national authorities should evaluate, support, and manage Social Agriculture. Originality/Value. This study for the first time concludes that the rural context and agricultural process are the drivers to promote social integration in the communities. Therefore, the meaning of the Social Agriculture assessment systems obtaining a great importance both for the value' increase of the farmer and for the increase of support for social policies in marginal areas. Future research. The prospects for further studies are: future research about measures to evaluate Social Agriculture activities; tools to improve the decision-making process about future scenarios of the care processes for the society; improved services to avoid the worsening of population health status and thus, improving the process of defining social policies. Paper type – conceptual.

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Frazzled care for social workers in Hong Kong: Job stress circumstances and consequences

International Social Work ◽

10.1177/0020872810382684 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 54 (6) ◽

pp. 832-851 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Lina Vyas ◽

Sabrina Luk

Keyword(s):

Social Workers ◽

Job Stress ◽

Family Life ◽

Service Users ◽

Physical And Mental Health ◽

Personal Lives ◽

Self Development ◽

The World ◽

Related Stress ◽

Job Related Stress

The meaning and nature of work has undergone significant change across the world, making job related stress a routine part of employment for many people. Social workers who are charged with the task of easing the chaotic lives of service users can also be subject to considerable job stress which adversely affects their personal lives. The current research identifies the stressors experienced by social workers serving in an NGO and also considers their consequences. Job stress was found to negatively influence not only social workers’ self-development, family life and job satisfaction, but also their physical and mental health.

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