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The role of autonomy and social support in the relation between psychosocial safety climate and stress in health care workers

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Title
The role of autonomy and social support in the relation between psychosocial safety climate and stress in health care workers
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BMC Public Health, June 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12889-017-4484-4
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Bo M. Havermans, Cécile R. L. Boot, Irene L. D. Houtman, Evelien P. M. Brouwers, Johannes R. Anema, Allard J. van der Beek

Abstract

Health care workers are exposed to psychosocial work factors. Autonomy and social support are psychosocial work factors that are related to stress, and are argued to largely result from the psychosocial safety climate within organisations. This study aimed to assess to what extent the relation between psychosocial safety climate and stress in health care workers can be explained by autonomy and social support. In a cross-sectional study, psychosocial safety climate, stress, autonomy, co-worker support, and supervisor support were assessed using questionnaires, in a sample of health care workers (N = 277). Linear mixed models analyses were performed to assess to what extent social support and autonomy explained the relation between psychosocial safety climate and stress. A lower psychosocial safety climate score was associated with significantly higher stress (B = -0.21, 95% CI = -0.27 - -0.14). Neither co-worker support, supervisor support, nor autonomy explained the relation between psychosocial safety climate and stress. Taken together, autonomy and both social support measures diminished the relation between psychosocial safety climate and stress by 12% (full model: B = -0.18, 95% CI = -0.25 - -0.11). Autonomy and social support together seemed to bring about a small decrease in the relation between psychosocial safety climate and stress in health care workers. Future research should discern whether other psychosocial work factors explain a larger portion of this relation. This study was registered in the Netherlands National Trial Register, trial code: NTR5527 .

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Country Count As %
Unknown 111 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 14 13%
Student > Master 13 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 11%
Student > Bachelor 8 7%
Researcher 7 6%
Other 19 17%
Unknown 38 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 22 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 12%
Social Sciences 10 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 5%
Other 8 7%
Unknown 40 36%
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