Kurz A Solomon, Bethay J Scott, Ladner-Graham Jennifer M
University of Mississippi, Department of Psychology, 205 Peabody, University, MS 38677, United States.
University of Mississippi, Department of Psychology, 205 Peabody, University, MS 38677, United States; North Mississippi Regional Center, 967 Regional Center Drive, Oxford, MS 38655, United States.
Res Dev Disabil. 2014 Oct;35(10):2359-70. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2014.06.003. Epub 2014 Jun 22.
The present study examined how different patterns of coping influence psychological distress for staff members in programs serving individuals with intellectual disabilities. With a series of path models, we examined the relative usefulness of constructs (i.e., wishful thinking and psychological inflexibility) from two distinct models of coping (i.e., the transactional model and the psychological flexibility models, respectively) as mediators to explain how workplace stressors lead to psychological distress in staff serving individuals with intellectual disabilities. Analyses involved self-report questionnaires from 128 staff members (84% female; 71% African American) from a large, state-funded residential program for individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities in the southern United States of America. Cross-sectional path models using bootstrapped standard errors and confidence intervals revealed both wishful thinking and psychological inflexibility mediated the relation between workplace stressors and psychological distress when they were included in separate models. However, when both variables were included in a multiple mediator model, only psychological inflexibility remained a significant mediator. The results suggest psychological inflexibility and the psychological flexibility model may be particularly useful for further investigation on the causes and amelioration of workplace-related stress in ID settings.
本研究考察了不同的应对模式如何影响为智障人士提供服务的项目中工作人员的心理困扰。通过一系列路径模型，我们检验了分别来自两种不同应对模式（即交易模型和心理灵活性模型）的构念（即如意算盘思维和心理僵化）作为中介变量的相对效用，以解释工作场所压力源如何导致为智障人士提供服务的工作人员出现心理困扰。分析涉及来自美国南部一个大型、由州政府资助的智力和身体残疾人士住宿项目的128名工作人员（84%为女性；71%为非裔美国人）的自我报告问卷。使用自抽样标准误差和置信区间的横断面路径模型显示，当如意算盘思维和心理僵化分别纳入单独模型时，二者均介导了工作场所压力源与心理困扰之间的关系。然而，当将这两个变量纳入多重中介模型时，只有心理僵化仍然是一个显著的中介变量。研究结果表明，心理僵化和心理灵活性模型可能对进一步研究智障环境中与工作场所相关压力的成因及缓解特别有用。
