Embracing both sides of the same coin: Work-related psychosocial risks and resources among child welfare workers
This PhD project explored the effect of work-related psychosocial risk, like for example work stress, traumatic stress and burnout among child welfare workers (CWW) both at work and in their private life, and further explores which role workplace resources like work-support can play to avoid such risks and thereby create a good work environment.
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About the research project
This project explored some of the crucial but often disregarded areas in the child welfare workers literature. Based on the Job Demand Resource (JD-R) model, as well as other relevant organizational theories such as workability, person-environment fit, role strain theory, and positive organizational scholarship (POS), the main question guiding this project is: How does the exposure to work-related psychosocial risks and workplace resources affect CWW at work and outside the boundaries of work? This overarching question was further sub-divided into three separate questions that were addressed in three studies: (1) How does support help CWW cope with the exposures to work-related psychosocial risks? (2) How do CWW experience balancing work and family life, and what are the spill-over effects of work to family and vice versa? (3) How do CWW deal with workplace risks and what are the individual capacities/strategies they employ that allow them to get through the day?
People
Project manager
Oyeniyi Samuel Olaniyan PhD Candidate