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Work-Family Conflict, Depression, and Burnout Among Jail Correctional Officers: A 1-Year Prospective Study
- Source :
- Safety and Health at Work, Safety and Health at Work, Vol 12, Iss 2, Pp 167-173 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Background Correctional officers (COs) experience elevated rates of mental and physical ill-health as compared with other general industry and public safety occupations. The purpose of this study was to investigate demographic, mental health, job tenure, and work-family characteristics and their prospective association to burnout within and between jail officers during one year of new employment. Methods In 2016, newly hired jail officers (N = 144) completed self-reported surveys across four time points in a one-year prospective study at a Midwestern United States urban jail. Linear mixed-effects and growth modeling examined how work-family conflict (W-FC) and depressive symptoms relate to perceptions of burnout over time. Results Jail officer burnout increased and was related to rises in W-FC and depression symptoms. Within-person variance for W-FC (B pooled = .52, p
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Work–family conflict
health care facilities, manpower, and services
education
Psychological intervention
Burnout
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Intervention (counseling)
medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Psychiatry
Prospective cohort study
Depression (differential diagnoses)
Chemical Health and Safety
Correctional officer
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
030210 environmental & occupational health
Mental health
Health promotion
Original Article
Public safety
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
Psychology
Safety Research
psychological phenomena and processes
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20937911
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Safety and health at work
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c3b30c49d4623d19b0a235bab3d6c3a4