Assessing Occupational Stress in Residential Youth Care Settings: Validation of the Stress Questionnaire for Residential Youth Care Professionals

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.1080/0886571X.2022.2073940

Laura Santos, Andreia Ferreira, D. Silva, Maria Pinheiro, D. Rijo

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Occupational stress is commonly experienced by professional caregivers working in Residential Youth Care (RYC), due to the psychological demands of their work. Although the influence of stress has been studied on this helping profession, there is still no measurement tool to assess the potential sources of stress for these professionals. This study aimed to validate the Stress Questionnaire for Residential Youth Care Professionals (Stress-RYCaregivers), a self-report questionnaire assessing different sources of occupational stress experienced by RYC professionals. Dimensionality and psychometric properties were investigated using a sample of 360 professional caregivers (88.6% female) working in 41 residential care facilities. A confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the 25 items grouped into six factors (i.e., Caring of Children and Young People, Work overload, Career progression and salary, Relationships at work, Training activities, and Home-work interface). All subscales showed adequate internal consistency and test–retest reliability. Construct validity in relation to external variables was also found. Significant differences in stress sources were found concerning personal and work variables. Understanding the causes of stress is the first step to prevent it, which may impact in the caregivers’ quality of life, in the care provided, and, ultimately, in the quality of life of children in RYC.

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评估寄宿青少年护理环境中的职业压力：寄宿青少年护理专业人员压力问卷的验证

摘要:由于工作的心理需求，在住宿青少年护理(RYC)工作的专业护理人员普遍经历职业压力。虽然压力对这一帮助职业的影响已经被研究过，但仍然没有测量工具来评估这些职业的潜在压力来源。本研究旨在验证《寄宿青少年照护专业人员压力问卷》，这是一份评估寄宿青少年照护专业人员不同职业压力来源的自我报告问卷。本研究以在41家养老机构工作的360名专业护理人员(88.6%为女性)为样本，调查了维度和心理测量特征。验证性因子分析表明，25个项目可分为6个因素(即儿童和青少年关爱、工作负荷、职业发展和工资、工作关系、培训活动和家庭工作界面)。所有量表均具有足够的内部一致性和重测信度。结构效度与外部变量的关系也被发现。压力源在个人和工作变量上存在显著差异。了解压力的原因是预防压力的第一步，压力可能会影响照顾者的生活质量，所提供的照顾，并最终影响RYC儿童的生活质量。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.