Psychology, Sociology and Professional Counselling, Webster University, 1293 Geneva, Switzerland.
Centre for Organizational Health and Development, Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Oct 29;16(21):4169. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16214169.
The Job Demand-Control-Support (JDC-S) and Effort-Reward Imbalance (ERI) models dominate psychosocial work environment research and practice, with their independent and collective contributions to employee health having been extensively demonstrated. Psychosocial risk assessment in the humanitarian aid sector is in its infancy, and there is a need to identify appropriate psychosocial work environment models to inform approaches to assessment. The aim of this study is to examine the efficacy of these models separately and in combination to identify psychological distress in humanitarian aid workers. Cross-sectional survey data were obtained from 283 humanitarian aid workers. Logistic regression analyses investigated the separate and combined ability of the models to identify psychological distress. More than half of the participant sample reported psychological distress, and one third reported high ERI and high job strain. When tested separately, each model was associated with a significantly elevated likelihood of psychological distress. When tested in combination, the two models offered a superior estimation of the likelihood of psychological distress than achieved by one model in isolation. Psychosocial risk assessment in the humanitarian aid sector encompassing the characteristics of both these leading psychosocial work environment models captures the breadth of relevant generic psychosocial work characteristics. These initial findings require corroboration through longitudinal research involving sector-representative samples.
工作要求-控制-支持（JDC-S）和努力-回报失衡（ERI）模型主导着心理社会工作环境的研究和实践，其对员工健康的独立和集体贡献已得到广泛证明。人道主义援助部门的心理社会风险评估仍处于起步阶段，需要确定适当的心理社会工作环境模型，为评估方法提供信息。本研究的目的是分别和联合检查这些模型，以确定人道主义援助工作者的心理困扰。从 283 名人道主义援助工作者中获得了横断面调查数据。逻辑回归分析研究了模型分别和联合识别心理困扰的能力。超过一半的参与者样本报告存在心理困扰，三分之一的人报告存在高 ERI 和高工作压力。当分别测试时，每个模型都与心理困扰的发生几率显著升高相关。当联合测试时，两个模型比单独使用一个模型更能准确估计心理困扰的发生几率。涵盖这两个主要心理社会工作环境模型特点的人道主义援助部门的心理社会风险评估，涵盖了相关通用心理社会工作特征的广度。这些初步发现需要通过涉及部门代表性样本的纵向研究来证实。
