AUTHOR=Huang Chienchung , Xie Xiaoxia , Cheung Shannon P. , Zhou Yuqing TITLE=Job Demands and Resources, Positive and Negative Affect, and Psychological Distress of Social Workers in China JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychiatry VOLUME=12 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.752382 DOI=10.3389/fpsyt.2021.752382 ISSN=1664-0640 ABSTRACT=
Globally, human service professionals, like social workers, experience significant job demands (JD) which can lead to outcomes like psychological distress, burnout, and high turnover rates. This is especially true in China, where the social work profession has grown substantially in recent decades. Because social workers play a crucial role in supporting vulnerable communities, there is a need to understand how their work conditions affect outcomes like psychological distress. This study applies the job demands and resources (JD-R) model to study this relation, along with the mediational effects of positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA), in social workers from Chengdu, China (