The Influence of Psychosocial Factors according to Gender and Age in Hospital Care Workers
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Title
The Influence of Psychosocial Factors according to Gender and Age in Hospital Care WorkersDate
2023-03Publisher
Cambridge University PressISSN
1138-7416; 1988-2904Bibliographic citation
Cañavate, G., Meneghel, I., & Salanova, M. (2023). The Influence of Psychosocial Factors according to Gender and Age in Hospital Care Workers. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 26, E1. doi:10.1017/SJP.2023.1Type
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Abstract
Even though psychosocial risks can affect the entire working population regardless of demographic variables, multiple publications claim that women are more exposed to psychosocial risks and that psychosocial risks ... [+]
Even though psychosocial risks can affect the entire working population regardless of demographic variables, multiple publications claim that women are more exposed to psychosocial risks and that psychosocial risks affect people in a different way, depending on their age. This study aims to investigate demographic differences (i.e., sex and age) in health care workers, with an aim which is twofold: (i) To know if these geographic differences lead to differences in perception of psychosocial risks; and (ii) to identify the job demands and resources with the highest impact on work engagement and performance. A sample of 4,451 people from the sanitary sector, pertaining to 75 Spanish hospitals, was analyzed to test the hypotheses. ANOVA results demonstrated that women show significantly higher impact values in job demands than men, as well as higher values in job resources. Moreover, the group of younger people (< 40 years) showed significantly lower levels in demands, and significantly higher in job resources, wellbeing, and organizational outcomes. Finally, multi-group SEM analyses showed that the impact of job demands and resources on work engagement and performance is significant, regardless of sex and age, although there are changes in the coefficients. The differences in the perception of job demands and resources of the different demographic groups can be used to develop specific psychosocial intervention in health care workers. [-]
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The Spanish Journal of Psychology, vol. 26, (2023)Funder Name
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
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PID2020-119993RB-I00 | MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033
Project title or grant
Intervenciones psicológicas positivas con tecnologías digitales en trabajadores esenciales en primera línea, en tiempos de COVID-19
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