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The Perceived Job Performance of Child Welfare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
While the evidence on the adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of frontline social workers is emerging, the research on the impact of the pandemic on their performance is scarce. The presented study explores how the relationship between work environment predictors and perceived...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9864503/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36713302 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10615-022-00861-z |
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author | Axelrad-Levy, Tamar Schwartz Tayri, Talia Meital Achdut, Netta Sarid, Orly |
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description | While the evidence on the adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of frontline social workers is emerging, the research on the impact of the pandemic on their performance is scarce. The presented study explores how the relationship between work environment predictors and perceived stress explains the job performance of child welfare social workers during the pandemic using survey responses of 878 child welfare social workers. The findings revealed the mechanism through which environment predictors and perceived stress interacted in explaining job performance during a time of large-scale crisis. We found that C.W. social workers who experienced greater COVID-19-related service restrictions reported poorer job performance, that perceived stress disrupted workers’ supervision and autonomy, and that supervision and job autonomy protected C.W. social workers from the adverse effects of perceived stress and workload on their job performance. Conclusions included the importance of autonomy and supervision in mitigating job-related stressors and the need to adapt and enhance child welfare supervision during times of national crisis. |
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spelling | pubmed-98645032023-01-23 The Perceived Job Performance of Child Welfare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic Axelrad-Levy, Tamar Schwartz Tayri, Talia Meital Achdut, Netta Sarid, Orly Clin Soc Work J Original Paper While the evidence on the adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of frontline social workers is emerging, the research on the impact of the pandemic on their performance is scarce. The presented study explores how the relationship between work environment predictors and perceived stress explains the job performance of child welfare social workers during the pandemic using survey responses of 878 child welfare social workers. The findings revealed the mechanism through which environment predictors and perceived stress interacted in explaining job performance during a time of large-scale crisis. We found that C.W. social workers who experienced greater COVID-19-related service restrictions reported poorer job performance, that perceived stress disrupted workers’ supervision and autonomy, and that supervision and job autonomy protected C.W. social workers from the adverse effects of perceived stress and workload on their job performance. Conclusions included the importance of autonomy and supervision in mitigating job-related stressors and the need to adapt and enhance child welfare supervision during times of national crisis. Springer US 2023-01-20 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9864503/ /pubmed/36713302 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10615-022-00861-z Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Axelrad-Levy, Tamar Schwartz Tayri, Talia Meital Achdut, Netta Sarid, Orly The Perceived Job Performance of Child Welfare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | The Perceived Job Performance of Child Welfare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | The Perceived Job Performance of Child Welfare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | The Perceived Job Performance of Child Welfare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | The Perceived Job Performance of Child Welfare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | The Perceived Job Performance of Child Welfare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | perceived job performance of child welfare workers during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9864503/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36713302 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10615-022-00861-z |
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