Job demands, resources, and task performance in Chinese social workers: Roles of burnout and work engagement.

ABSTRACT: Social work is a rapidly developing occupation in China. In the early 2000s, there were merely a few hundred thousand social workers, but by 2020 there were over 1.5 million social workers in the field. However, research has indicated these social workers are also experiencing record high burnout and turnover rates. Thus, researchers have started to question the work engagement and task performance factors that could be contributing to these increasing rates. This study uses the Job Demands and Resources (JD-R) Theory to understand how 537 social workers from Guangzhou, China are impacted by burnout and how it influences work engagement and task performance. The results show JD-R directly affect task performance through burnout and work engagement via a dual process. First, job dema

SUBMITTER: Tu B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9343730 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature