How Effective Are Professional Social Workers in Chinese Communities?

IF 1.5 4区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL WORK

Research on Social Work Practice Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI:10.1177/10497315251346043

Ming Hou, Mohammad Reevany Bustami, Xizhao Li, Congwen Wang

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Abstract

Purpose: This study aims to reveal the mediating effect of social workers in improving residents’ well-being index. Methods: A total of 643 questionnaires were collected and the mediating effect was verified by SPSS PROCESS macro. Results: Community activities have a significant impact on residents’ sense of happiness. Social workers play a mediating role in some activities, but their overall explanatory power is limited and the perception of the mechanism is insufficient. It is necessary to enhance the quality of social workers’ intervention and institutional support and improve their professional functions and public recognition in the generation of residents’ happiness. Discussion: The mediating role of social workers varies in different types of community activities, with a relatively weak overall effect. Residents rely more on the experiences brought by the activities themselves to gain happiness, highlighting the issue of the perceivability and mechanism embedding of social work professional functions in practice.

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专业社工在华人社区的工作效率如何？

目的：本研究旨在揭示社会工作者在提高居民幸福感指数中的中介作用。方法：共收集问卷643份，采用SPSS PROCESS宏进行中介效应验证。结果：社区活动对居民幸福感有显著影响。社会工作者在某些活动中发挥中介作用，但其整体解释力有限，对机制的认知不足。在居民幸福感的生成过程中，需要提高社会工作者的干预和制度支持质量，提高社会工作者的专业功能和公众认可度。讨论：社会工作者的中介作用在不同类型的社区活动中存在差异，整体效果相对较弱。居民更多地依靠活动本身带来的体验来获得幸福感，凸显了社会工作专业功能在实践中的可感知性和机制嵌入问题。

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来源期刊

Research on Social Work Practice SOCIAL WORK-

CiteScore

3.50

自引率

11.10%

发文量

105

期刊介绍： Research on Social Work Practice, sponsored by the Society for Social Work and Research, is a disciplinary journal devoted to the publication of empirical research concerning the methods and outcomes of social work practice. Social work practice is broadly interpreted to refer to the application of intentionally designed social work intervention programs to problems of societal and/or interpersonal importance, including behavior analysis or psychotherapy involving individuals; case management; practice involving couples, families, and small groups; community practice education; and the development, implementation, and evaluation of social policies.