An analysis of stress, burnout and work commitment among disability support staff in the UK

By: Smyth, Emmett.
Contributor(s): Healy, Olive | Lydon, Sinead.
Series: Research in Developmental Disabilities 47 2015: 297-305. 2015Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume Subject(s): SUPPORT STAFF | BURNOUT | STAFF STRESS | CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR | GREAT BRITAIN | UNITED STATES OF AMERICASummary: Explores the impact of exposure to aggressive/destructive challenging behaviour, on measures of stress, burnout, and work commitment among a sample of disability support workers in the UK. Examines the predictive power of age, working experience, experience of challenging behaviour, perceived stress, and work commitment for burnout among the sample. An additional aim was to compare the levels of burnout observed among our participants to those reported by previous studies conducted in North America (Hensel et al., 2012) and the UK (Mitchell & Hastings, 2001) in order to determine the generalizability of our results and to examine the consistency with which burnout is experienced by disability support workers in the UK and internationally.
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Explores the impact of exposure to aggressive/destructive challenging behaviour, on measures of stress, burnout, and work commitment among a sample of disability support workers in the UK. Examines the predictive power of age, working experience, experience of challenging behaviour, perceived stress, and work commitment for burnout among the sample. An additional aim was to compare the levels of burnout observed among our participants to those reported by previous studies conducted in North America (Hensel et al., 2012) and the UK (Mitchell & Hastings, 2001) in order to determine the generalizability of our results and to examine the consistency with which burnout is experienced by disability support workers in the UK and internationally.

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