Work engagement, burnout and personal accomplishments among social workers: A comparison between those working in children and adults’ services in England
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Social workers (SWs) provide emotional and practical support to vulnerable service users who are likely to suffer from emotional trauma and mental health conditions. Stress and burnout levels are reported to be high among SWs, however, little is known about their relationships with different characteristics. The current article utilises unique and large dataset (n = 3786) on SWs working in adults and children's services to examine factors associated with burnout. Employing job-demand/resources model and structural equations modelling, we highlight the varying significant impact of work-engagement, administrative support and work experience as moderating factors to burnout across adult and children service specialism in this sample.
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There is increasing evidence of a pervasive problem with stress and burnout in social work.
“There is increasing evidence of a pervasive problem with stress and burnout in social work (Hussein, 2018;Ravalier and Boichat, 2018), raising questions about the importance placed on social workers' well-being.”
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The findings accord with other evidence of stress for students, NQSWs and social workers.
“They accord with other evidence of stress for students (Grant and Kinman, 2012), NQSWs (Healy et al., 2009) and social workers (Hussein, 2018).”
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- Authors
- Hussein, S.
- Affiliations
- King's College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Hussein, Shereen
- ORCID
- Hussein, Shereen
- Venue
- Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
- Published
- 2018-04-26
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 911-923
- ISSN
- 0894-587X (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3289
- PMC
- PMC6208912
- OpenAlex
- W2802883774
- Cited by
- 73
- References
- 60
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 6.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2020-01-04)
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- LSHTM Research Online (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) (acceptedVersion)
- Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- The English Department of Health (DH/035/0095)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Social Work Education and Practice
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Keywords
- social workers, burnout, work engagement, personal accomplishment, job demands-resources model, children's services, adult social care, administrative support, work experience, occupational stress, moderators
- MeSH terms
- Social Workers, Work Engagement, Adult, Burnout, Professional, Child, Child Welfare, England, Female, Health Status, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Social Work
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