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dc.contributor.authorLin, Jin-Ding
dc.contributor.authorLee, Tzong-Nan
dc.contributor.authorYen, Chia-Feng
dc.contributor.authorLoh, Ching-Hui
dc.contributor.authorHsu, Shang-Wei
dc.contributor.authorWu, Jia-Ling
dc.contributor.authorChu, Cordia M
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:16:03Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:16:03Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.modified2010-06-24T05:18:22Z
dc.identifier.issn0891-4222
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ridd.2008.02.001
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/28571
dc.description.abstractLittle is known about the job strain of staff working in disability institutions. This study investigated the staff's job strain profile and its determinants which included the worker characteristics and the psychosocial working environments in Taiwan. A cross-sectional study survey was carried out among 1243 workers by means of a self-answered questionnaire. The outcome variable (high-strain job) was evaluated. The explanatory variables were: worker characteristics and the psychosocial working environment evaluated according to Karasek's Job Demand-Control-Support model. The results show that many staff characteristics were correlated with job strain, such as staff's working hours, age, gender, job title, educational level, religion, in-job training, working years in disability institutions and Effort-Reward Imbalance factors. Organization factors, such as geographical, institutional ownership and accreditation performance and size were also correlated with staff's job strain. In multiple a logistic regression model of the job strain, we found that the factors of financial reward (high compare to low, OR = 0.95, 95% CI = 0.928-0.975), extrinsic effort (high compare to low, OR = 1.072, 95% CI = 1.072-1.158), perceived job stress (sometimes stressful compare to no stress, OR = 2.305, 95% CI = 1.161-4.575; very stressful compare to no stress, OR = 3.931, 95% CI = 1.738-8.893) of the staff were significantly correlated to the high job strain of the staff. An important focus of future research should be extending the findings to consider the factors to affect the high job strain to improve the well-being for staff working for people with intellectual disability
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom146
dc.relation.ispartofpageto157
dc.relation.ispartofjournalResearch in Developmental Disabilities
dc.relation.ispartofvolume30
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSpecialist studies in education
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3904
dc.titleJob strain and determinants in staff working in institutions for people with intellectual disabilities in Taiwan: A test of the Job Demand-Control-Support model
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2009
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorChu, Cordia M.


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