Assessing Relative Stressors and Mental Disorders among Canadian Provincial Correctional Workers
| dc.contributor.author | Konyk, Katy | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ricciardelli, Rosemary | |
| dc.contributor.author | Taillieu, Tamara | |
| dc.contributor.author | Afifi, Tracie, O | |
| dc.contributor.author | Groll, Dianne | |
| dc.contributor.author | Carleton, R. Nicholas | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-26T14:26:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-01-26T14:26:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-09-23 | |
| dc.description | © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In the current study, we quantified the mean stress levels of 43 occupational stressors for 868 Correctional Workers (CWs) and analyzed the relationships between occupational stressors, exposure to potentially psychologically traumatic events (PPTEs), and mental health disorders. Our findings emphasize the importance of the occupational environment in relation to CW mental health and indicate that occupational stressors (e.g., staff shortages, inconsistent leadership style, bureaucratic red tape) are more salient contributors to CW mental health than exposure to PPTEs. Finding strategies to ameliorate staff shortages, improve leadership style and communication, and support CWs to maintain physical, mental, and social well-being would be interventions tied to significant organizational and operational stressors within the current study. | en_US |
| dc.description.authorstatus | Faculty | en_US |
| dc.description.peerreview | yes | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: R. Nicholas Carleton’s research is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) through a New Investigator Award (FRN: 13666). Tracie O. Afifi’s research is supported by a Tier I Canada Research Chair. This research was also funded in part by a CIHR Catalyst Grant (FRN: 16234). | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Konyk, K., Ricciardelli, R., Taillieu, T., Afifi, T. O., Groll, D., & Carleton, R. N. (2021). Assessing Relative Stressors and Mental Disorders among Canadian Provincial Correctional Workers. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 181, 18. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910018 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910018 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10294/15589 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | en_US |
| dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | * |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
| dc.subject | occupational stressors | en_US |
| dc.subject | correctional workers | en_US |
| dc.subject | potentially psychologically traumatic events | en_US |
| dc.subject | mental health disorders | en_US |
| dc.subject | PTSD | en_US |
| dc.title | Assessing Relative Stressors and Mental Disorders among Canadian Provincial Correctional Workers | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |