Job demands, job control, and social support as predictors of job satisfaction and burnout in Croatian palliative care nurses
The Job Demands-Control-Support (JDCS) model has seldom been tested in palliative care settings, and occupational well-being of palliative care professionals has never before been investigated in Croatia. Our aim was therefore to fill that gap by testing the JDCS model among Croatian nurses providin...
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| description | The Job Demands-Control-Support (JDCS) model has seldom been tested in palliative care settings, and occupational well-being of palliative care professionals has never before been investigated in Croatia. Our aim was therefore to fill that gap by testing the JDCS model among Croatian nurses providing palliative care. More specifically, we wanted to see how job demands, job control, and social support at work affect occupational well-being outcomes (i.e. job satisfaction and burnout dimensions of exhaustion and disengagement from work) in terms of the model’s iso-strain and buffer hypotheses. This cross-sectional study included 68 nurses working in various palliative care institutions across Croatia, who answered our online questionnaire. Overall, the nurses did not report high levels of burnout or low job satisfaction. The only significant effect was that of job control on job satisfaction (β=0.38; P<0.01) and disengagement (β=-0.45; P<0.01), while job demands and social support at work had a significant interaction effect on the burnout dimension of exhaustion (β=0.39; P<0.01) in the sense that high social support at work buffered the increase in exhaustion associated with high job demands. These findings suggest that interventions aimed at increasing perceived job control and social support at the workplace could improve occupational well-being of nurses working in palliative care. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1f6250d36f8d4d8ba7911df98ff088302022-12-21T21:23:29ZengSciendoArhiv za Higijenu Rada i Toksikologiju1848-63122021-09-0172322523110.2478/aiht-2021-72-3556Job demands, job control, and social support as predictors of job satisfaction and burnout in Croatian palliative care nursesJunaković Ivana Tucak0Macuka Ivana1University of Zadar Department of Psychology, Zadar, CroatiaUniversity of Zadar Department of Psychology, Zadar, CroatiaThe Job Demands-Control-Support (JDCS) model has seldom been tested in palliative care settings, and occupational well-being of palliative care professionals has never before been investigated in Croatia. Our aim was therefore to fill that gap by testing the JDCS model among Croatian nurses providing palliative care. More specifically, we wanted to see how job demands, job control, and social support at work affect occupational well-being outcomes (i.e. job satisfaction and burnout dimensions of exhaustion and disengagement from work) in terms of the model’s iso-strain and buffer hypotheses. This cross-sectional study included 68 nurses working in various palliative care institutions across Croatia, who answered our online questionnaire. Overall, the nurses did not report high levels of burnout or low job satisfaction. The only significant effect was that of job control on job satisfaction (β=0.38; P<0.01) and disengagement (β=-0.45; P<0.01), while job demands and social support at work had a significant interaction effect on the burnout dimension of exhaustion (β=0.39; P<0.01) in the sense that high social support at work buffered the increase in exhaustion associated with high job demands. These findings suggest that interventions aimed at increasing perceived job control and social support at the workplace could improve occupational well-being of nurses working in palliative care.https://doi.org/10.2478/aiht-2021-72-3556jdscmental healthoccupational well-beingwork stressjdcs modelmentalno zdravljeprofesionalna dobrobitradni stres |
| spellingShingle | Junaković Ivana Tucak Macuka Ivana Job demands, job control, and social support as predictors of job satisfaction and burnout in Croatian palliative care nurses Arhiv za Higijenu Rada i Toksikologiju jdsc mental health occupational well-being work stress jdcs model mentalno zdravlje profesionalna dobrobit radni stres |
| title | Job demands, job control, and social support as predictors of job satisfaction and burnout in Croatian palliative care nurses |
| title_full | Job demands, job control, and social support as predictors of job satisfaction and burnout in Croatian palliative care nurses |
| title_fullStr | Job demands, job control, and social support as predictors of job satisfaction and burnout in Croatian palliative care nurses |
| title_full_unstemmed | Job demands, job control, and social support as predictors of job satisfaction and burnout in Croatian palliative care nurses |
| title_short | Job demands, job control, and social support as predictors of job satisfaction and burnout in Croatian palliative care nurses |
| title_sort | job demands job control and social support as predictors of job satisfaction and burnout in croatian palliative care nurses |
| topic | jdsc mental health occupational well-being work stress jdcs model mentalno zdravlje profesionalna dobrobit radni stres |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/aiht-2021-72-3556 |
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