Posttraumatic Growth and Related Factors of Child Protective Service Workers

Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Young Sun Rhee¹  Young Bin Ko²  In Young Han² 

[1] Department of Administration and Social Welfare, Chosun University, Kwangju, South Korea

[2] Department of Social welfare, Ewha womans University, Seoul, South korea

关键词: Social support;    Coping strategy;    Vicarious trauma;    Posttraumatic growth;   

Others  :  791178
DOI  :  10.1186/2052-4374-25-6

 received in 2012-08-31, accepted in 2013-02-18,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Objectives

The aim of the study is to measure the level of vicarious trauma, posttraumatic growth (PTG), and other factors affecting PTG among child protective service workers.

Methods

We include posttraumatic stress, social support, stress coping, and demographic data as independent variables. Data was collected from 255 full-time social workers from 43 child protective agencies as acomplete enumeration and 204 included in the final analysis.

Results

The major findings of the study were as follows: The mean score of PTG was 44.09 (SD:21.73). Hierarchical multiple regression was adopted and "pursuing social support as a way of coping with stress" was the strongest predictive factor (β=0.319, p<0.001) of PTG.

Conclusion

We suggest that child protective workers are vulnerable to posttraumatic stress and mental health services are indicated. We also recommend various types of training for stress coping program, especially strengthening the social support system of the child protective service workers in South Korea.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Rhee et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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