Associations between Poorer Mental Health with Work-Related Effort, Reward, and Overcommitment among a Sample of Formal US Solid Waste Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Shkembi, Abas; Levy, Deborah A.; Neitzel, Richard L.

doi:10.1016/j.shaw.2023.01.004

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“…In other studies, mental health [73] was significantly related to turnover intention, but there was no significant difference in the influencing factors. Shkembi et al [74] found that over-engagement was significantly related to poor mental health, and Lee Jung-hoon [51] identified in a study of critical care nurses that they thought of leaving because of dissatisfaction with compensation, absence of break time guarantee, and lack of hope that the work environment would improve compared to high work intensity, supporting the result that the lower the compensation, the higher the turnover intention. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce job demands and increase job resources for compassion satisfaction and compensation so that burnout, effort, overcommitment, and psychological distress can be reduced.…”

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An Exploratory Study of Psychological Distress, Professional Quality of Life, Effort-Reward Imbalance, and Turnover Intention of Hospital Nurses during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Han,

Lee,

Kim

2023

Healthcare

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This exploratory study aimed to identify factors that may influence nurses’ turnover intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data were collected during January 2023 from 250 nurses and analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe, Pearson’s correlation, and multiple regression analysis. Among the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, nursing care and working with personal protective equipment significantly impacted the turnover intention. Among the independent variables, compassion satisfaction, burnout, effort–reward ratio, and psychological distress were significant, with an explanatory power of 43.3%. Among the subjects, 86.4% (216 people) showed a moderate or high burnout level because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and burnout seemed to have a significant impact on turnover intention. Therefore, to lower the turnover intention of nurses, burnout should be prevented, and managers should create an environment where nurses can receive a balanced reward for their efforts.

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An Exploratory Study of Psychological Distress, Professional Quality of Life, Effort-Reward Imbalance, and Turnover Intention of Hospital Nurses during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Han,

Lee,

Kim

2023

Healthcare

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“…Specifically, over-commitment characteristics, such as exerting extreme effort at work and being unable to withdraw from it, demonstrated a direct impact on mental health and quality of life in our study, which could be explained by the fact that Thai workers are under high psychological stress [ 50 , 51 ] and suffer from negative health effects due to occupational psychological hazards [ 24 ]. Moreover, over-commitment seems to directly influence mental health and to induce emotional problems under stressful environment [ 52 , 53 ]. Clinically, stroke patients frequently experience psycho-emotional difficulties [ 54 ], have cognitive and emotional symptoms after their first stroke [ 55 ], often persisting over a year [ 56 , 57 ].…”

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Associations of effort-reward imbalance at work and quality of life among workers after stroke: a one-year longitudinal study in Thailand

Naknoi,

Li,

ramasoota

et al. 2023

BMC Public Health

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Stroke incidence is increasing among working-age population, but the role of psychosocial stress in the workplace in predicting quality of life (QoL) after stroke onset is understudied. This longitudinal study aimed to investigate the relationship between work stress, measured by the effort-reward imbalance (ERI) model, and QoL over one-year period among 103 Thai workers who had experienced a stroke. The study evaluated the effort (E)-reward (R) ratio and over-commitment, the extrinsic and intrinsic components of the ERI model, before discharge; QoL was repeatedly measured at baseline, six months, and 12 months after discharge, respectively, using the Short Form Version 2 (SF-12v2) indicators of physical and mental health composite scores. Generalized estimating equations were used to examine longitudinal relationships between work stress at baseline and QoL over one year by testing the hypotheses that E-R ratio and over-commitment would have direct effects on QoL, and potential moderating effects of over-commitment on E-R ratio and QoL. The results supported the ERI model partially, as over-commitment was significantly associated with poor mental health (coefficient − 8.50; 95% CI: -13.79, -3.20) after adjusting baseline sociodemographic, behavioral, and clinical characteristics, while the E-R ratio was not significantly associated with physical or mental health; the interaction between the E-R ratio and over-commitment was also not significant. These findings suggest that more attention should be paid to workers’ personal coping skills and ability to handle work-related problems and prioritize interventions that address over-commitment to promote long-term mental health among workers with stroke.

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Risk perception or hazard perception? Examining misperceptions of miners’ personal exposures to noise

Shkembi,

Smith,

Neitzel

2023

International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health

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Associations between Poorer Mental Health with Work-Related Effort, Reward, and Overcommitment among a Sample of Formal US Solid Waste Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 5 publications

References 29 publications

An Exploratory Study of Psychological Distress, Professional Quality of Life, Effort-Reward Imbalance, and Turnover Intention of Hospital Nurses during the COVID-19 Pandemic

An Exploratory Study of Psychological Distress, Professional Quality of Life, Effort-Reward Imbalance, and Turnover Intention of Hospital Nurses during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Associations of effort-reward imbalance at work and quality of life among workers after stroke: a one-year longitudinal study in Thailand

Risk perception or hazard perception? Examining misperceptions of miners’ personal exposures to noise

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