ERIC Number: EJ1452719
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-1366-8250
EISSN: EISSN-1469-9532
Work Stress and Professional Quality of Life in Disability Support Workers: The Mediating Role of Psychological Flexibility
Melissa A. Holding; Lynne Parkinson; Davina Taylor
Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, v49 n4 p425-437 2024
Background: This study aimed to explore perceived work stress and its association with burnout, compassion fatigue, and compassion satisfaction and the mediating effect of psychological flexibility on these relationships. Method: Two hundred and fifty-one disability support workers across Australia reported on work stress, psychological flexibility, burnout, compassion fatigue, and compassion satisfaction through an online anonymous survey. Results: Perceived work stress was found to have a significant relationship with burnout, compassion fatigue, and compassion satisfaction. Psychological flexibility had a significant mediating effect on all three relationships. Conclusion: These results highlight the role that psychological flexibility has in response to work stress and the development of burnout, compassion fatigue, and compassion satisfaction in disability support workers.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Environment, Stress Variables, Quality of Working Life, Student Personnel Workers, Disabilities, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Employee Attitudes, Burnout, Altruism, Fatigue (Biology), Adjustment (to Environment), Satisfaction, Participant Characteristics, Caregiver Role, Intellectual Disability, Students with Disabilities
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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