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Workplace Violence and Job Performance among Community Healthcare Workers in China: The Mediator Role of Quality of Life

Objective: To explore the impact of workplace violence on job performance and quality of life of community healthcare workers in China, especially the relationship of these three variables. Methods: From December 2013 to April 2014, a total of 1404 healthcare workers were recruited by using the rand...

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Autores principales: Lin, Wei-Quan, Wu, Jiang, Yuan, Le-Xin, Zhang, Sheng-Chao, Jing, Meng-Juan, Zhang, Hui-Shan, Luo, Jia-Li, Lei, Yi-Xiong, Wang, Pei-Xi
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4661685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26610538
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph121114872
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author Lin, Wei-Quan
Wu, Jiang
Yuan, Le-Xin
Zhang, Sheng-Chao
Jing, Meng-Juan
Zhang, Hui-Shan
Luo, Jia-Li
Lei, Yi-Xiong
Wang, Pei-Xi
author_facet Lin, Wei-Quan
Wu, Jiang
Yuan, Le-Xin
Zhang, Sheng-Chao
Jing, Meng-Juan
Zhang, Hui-Shan
Luo, Jia-Li
Lei, Yi-Xiong
Wang, Pei-Xi
author_sort Lin, Wei-Quan
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description Objective: To explore the impact of workplace violence on job performance and quality of life of community healthcare workers in China, especially the relationship of these three variables. Methods: From December 2013 to April 2014, a total of 1404 healthcare workers were recruited by using the random cluster sampling method from Community Health Centers in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. The workplace violence scale, the job performance scale and the quality of life scale (SF-36) were self-administered. The structural equation model constructed by Amos 17.0 was employed to assess the relationship among these variables. Results: Our study found that 51.64% of the respondents had an experience of workplace violence. It was found that both job performance and quality of life had a negative correlation with workplace violence. A positive association was identified between job performance and quality of life. The path analysis showed the total effect (β = −0.243) of workplace violence on job performance consisted of a direct effect (β = −0.113) and an indirect effect (β = −0.130), which was mediated by quality of life. Conclusions: Workplace violence among community healthcare workers is prevalent in China. The workplace violence had negative effects on the job performance and quality of life of CHCs’ workers. The study suggests that improvement in the quality of life may lead to an effective reduction of the damages in job performance caused by workplace violence.
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spelling pubmed-46616852015-12-10 Workplace Violence and Job Performance among Community Healthcare Workers in China: The Mediator Role of Quality of Life Lin, Wei-Quan Wu, Jiang Yuan, Le-Xin Zhang, Sheng-Chao Jing, Meng-Juan Zhang, Hui-Shan Luo, Jia-Li Lei, Yi-Xiong Wang, Pei-Xi Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Objective: To explore the impact of workplace violence on job performance and quality of life of community healthcare workers in China, especially the relationship of these three variables. Methods: From December 2013 to April 2014, a total of 1404 healthcare workers were recruited by using the random cluster sampling method from Community Health Centers in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. The workplace violence scale, the job performance scale and the quality of life scale (SF-36) were self-administered. The structural equation model constructed by Amos 17.0 was employed to assess the relationship among these variables. Results: Our study found that 51.64% of the respondents had an experience of workplace violence. It was found that both job performance and quality of life had a negative correlation with workplace violence. A positive association was identified between job performance and quality of life. The path analysis showed the total effect (β = −0.243) of workplace violence on job performance consisted of a direct effect (β = −0.113) and an indirect effect (β = −0.130), which was mediated by quality of life. Conclusions: Workplace violence among community healthcare workers is prevalent in China. The workplace violence had negative effects on the job performance and quality of life of CHCs’ workers. The study suggests that improvement in the quality of life may lead to an effective reduction of the damages in job performance caused by workplace violence. MDPI 2015-11-20 2015-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4661685/ /pubmed/26610538 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph121114872 Text en © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Wu, Jiang
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Luo, Jia-Li
Lei, Yi-Xiong
Wang, Pei-Xi
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title_short Workplace Violence and Job Performance among Community Healthcare Workers in China: The Mediator Role of Quality of Life
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4661685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26610538
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph121114872
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