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Care staff attributions toward self-injurious behaviour exhibited by adults with intellectual disabilities
- Source :
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities. 11:47-63
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2007.
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Abstract
- Challenging behaviours may elicit negative emotional reactions and increase stress within care staff. The Leeds Attributional Coding System (LACS) was used to elicit spontaneous causal attributions of staff toward hypothetical clients with challenging behaviours. It was hypothesized that there would be relationships (1) between staff exposure to challenging behaviours and burnout, and (2) between staff cognitions and burnout. Using a cross-sectional correlational design, 41 care staff took part in a 10 minute interview about two vignettes depicting self-injurious behaviour. Staff also completed measures of demographic information and burnout. Participants made attributions toward self-injurious behaviour that were typically internal to the client, uncontrollable, unstable and specific.There was a significant association between number of clients cared for and emotional exhaustion and personal accomplishment. Staff who made fewer stable attributions had higher levels of burnout. There were no other relationships found between staff cognition and burnout. The LACS can be successfully employed in this context, and may have some benefits over other methods. Future research is required to explore the relationship between cognition and burnout.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
050103 clinical psychology
Personality Inventory
Attitude of Health Personnel
health care facilities, manpower, and services
Statistics as Topic
education
Poison control
Context (language use)
Workload
Burnout
Health Professions (miscellaneous)
Residential Facilities
Occupational burnout
Developmental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Social cognition
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Emotional exhaustion
Burnout, Professional
Internal-External Control
05 social sciences
Middle Aged
Mental health
United Kingdom
030227 psychiatry
Psychiatry and Mental health
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Nurse-Patient Relations
Psychology
Attribution
Self-Injurious Behavior
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17446309 and 17446295
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b473f693cfeb331d720b53aaf3389bf3