TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Mediating effect of work stress on the associations between psychological job demands, social approval, and workplace violence among health care workers in Sichuan Province of China
JO  - Frontiers in public health
A1  - Sun, Xiaxia
A1  - Qiao, Mutian
A1  - Deng, Jianjun
A1  - Zhang, Juying
A1  - Pan, Jingping
A1  - Zhang, Xueli
A1  - Liu, Danping
SP  - e743626
EP  - e743626
VL  - 9
IS  - 
N2  - OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of workplace violence against health care workers, to explore the combined association of work stress, psychological job demands, and social approval with workplace violence and their respective mechanisms among health care workers. <br><br>METHODS: Using data from the Chinese Sixth National Health Service Survey (NHSS) in 2018 conducted among 1,371 health care workers in Sichuan province of China. A self-administered structured questionnaire was used to collect data on health care workers' socio-demographic and work-related characteristics, work stress, psychological job demands, social approval, and workplace violence. We used structural equation modeling (SEM) to test the hypothesized relationship among the variables. <br><br>RESULTS: The results showed that a total of 77.0% health care workers were exposed to workplace violence. Work stress was directly related to workplace violence (β = 2.167, 95%CI: 1.707, 2.627), while psychological job demands and social approval had indirect associations with workplace violence via work stress [β = 0.427, 95%CI: 0.297, 0.557; β = -0.787, 95%CI: (-0.941)-(-0.633)]. Both psychological job demands (β = 0.197, 95%CI: 0.139, 0.255) and social approval [β = -0.346, 95%CI: (-0.399)-(-0.294)] had direct associations with work stress, while social approval had direct association with psychological job demands [β = -0.085, 95%CI: (-0.136)-(-0.034)]. Psychological job demands mediated the relationship between social approval and work stress. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Overall, decreasing workplace violence among health care workers requires to promote interventions to reduce work stress and psychological job demands by improving social approval.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2296-2565
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.743626
ID  - ref1
ER  -