Association between psychosocial safety climate and job demand resources towards burnout among community college staff in Peninsular Malaysia
Psychological hazards are one of the relevant areas in occupational health with many studies done on occupational stress. However, the extreme end of mental health which is burnout that has a more serious impact has not been much explored. Previous study has shown that 10 to 15% of the working po...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
2019
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/84209/1/FPSK%20%28m%29%202019%2031%20UPM%20ir.pdf |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| Summary: | Psychological hazards are one of the relevant areas in occupational health with
many studies done on occupational stress. However, the extreme end of mental
health which is burnout that has a more serious impact has not been much
explored. Previous study has shown that 10 to 15% of the working population in
the Netherlands suffer from the burnout that has a more detrimental effect
compared to occupational stress. Therefore in this study, it was proposed that
Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC) act as a precursor to working conditions and
its effects on employees’ psychological well-being. Furthermore, PSC will
decrease emotional exhaustion, particularly through job demands (bullying and
emotional demands), and job resources (i.e social support). A cross-sectional
survey was conducted and respondents were sampled through multistage
sampling were based on the number of community colleges in Peninsular
Malaysia, approximately 50 colleges were first randomly chosen and later staff
from each selected colleges were further sampled through simple random
sampling. Finally, a total of 425 employees from 45 organizations agreed to
participate in the study. For statistical analysis, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
software was used as it is able to test a multilevel relationship. It was found that
PSC was negatively associated with workplace bullying (γ = -.13, SE = .03,
P<.001) and emotional demands (γ = -.17, SE = .05, P<.01) and positively
associated with social support (γ = .16, SE = .02, P<.001). In addition, the
relationship between PSC with burnout was mediated by workplace bullying (ƶ=-
3.61, SE=.01, p<.001), emotional demands (ƶ=-3.18, SE=.01, p<.001) and social
support (ƶ=-6.86, SE=.01, p<.001). In conclusion, these finding on PSC would
provide community colleges staff a better guidance and understanding about the
concepts of PSC to improve the psychological health especially with regards to
burnout. |
|---|