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The impact of community resilience, well-being, and community attachment on human service workers’ burnout
| datacite.subject.fos | Ciências Sociais::Psicologia | |
| datacite.subject.sdg | 03:Saúde de Qualidade | |
| dc.contributor.author | Henriques, Joana | |
| dc.contributor.author | Luís, Sílvia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rivero, Catarina | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gonçalves, Sónia P | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tavares, Lara Patrício | |
| dc.contributor.author | Marujo, Helena Á | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-25T18:46:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-11-25T18:46:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-01-10 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Burnout has become an increasingly prevalent condition, especially affecting professionals in direct contact with clients. Human service workers (HSWs) have quite emotionally taxing jobs supporting vulnerable groups. In developing a close relationship with the communities they work with, it could be possible that community-related variables have an impact on HSWs’ burnout. We aim to analyze the prevalence of burnout in a sample of HSWs from Portugal and the role of community resilience as a predictor of their burnout, as well as explore if their subjective well-being and community attachment could explain the relationship between community resilience and burnout, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected through an online questionnaire between August 2020 and January 2021 ( N = 598). Results indicate that HSWs presented medium to low levels of burnout, although 8.9% presented high levels. Those who reported lower levels of burnout perceived higher community resilience and had much higher well-being and community attachment. Findings point to community resilience having a significant direct effect on burnout and also an indirect effect, which was explained by subjective well-being and community attachment. Results seem to suggest that this sample's low-medium levels of burnout could be linked to the benefit of experiencing high community attachment and working in communities with high resilience, which consequently impacted their well-being and burnout. This highlights the crucial role of the work context in professionals’ mental health, showing that a broader context needs to be considered in professional mental health promotion programs. | por |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia - FCT | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Luís, S., Henriques, J., Rivero, C., Gonçalves, S. P., Tavares, L. P., & Marujo, H. Á. (2024). The impact of community resilience, well-being, and community attachment on human service workers’ burnout. Journal of Social Work, 24(3), 322–338. https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173231225113 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/14680173231225113 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1468-0173 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1741-296X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/13666 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | |
| dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | |
| dc.relation | UIDP/00713/2021 | |
| dc.relation | UIDB/05380/2020 | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Social Work | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Social work | |
| dc.subject | Human service workers | |
| dc.subject | community services | |
| dc.subject | human services | |
| dc.subject | community work | |
| dc.subject | mental health | |
| dc.title | The impact of community resilience, well-being, and community attachment on human service workers’ burnout | eng |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 338 | |
| oaire.citation.issue | 3 | |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 322 | |
| oaire.citation.title | Journal of Social Work | |
| oaire.citation.volume | 24 | |
| oaire.version | http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 |