- Title
- Work stress and professional quality of life in disability support workers: The mediating role of psychological flexibility
- Creator
- Holding, Melissa A.; Parkinson, Lynne; Taylor, Davina
- Relation
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability Vol. 49, Issue 4, p. 425-437
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/13668250.2024.2323204
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2024
- Description
- 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.
- Subject
- disability support workers; work stress; burnout; compassion fatigue; compassion satisfaction; psychological flexibility
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1516891
- Identifier
- uon:57047
- Identifier
- ISSN:1366-8250
- Rights
- © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Language
- eng
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