Reduced working hours and stress in the Swedish social services
A longitudinal study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9972894 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Barck-Holst (0000-0003-1063-5010, Karolinska Institutet, corresponding author), Åsa Nilsonne (Karolinska Institutet), Torbjörn Åkerstedt (0000-0001-8049-8504, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Sweden), Carina Hellgren (Karolinska Institutet) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 897-913 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-12 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8728 • E-ISSN: 1461-7234 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0020872815580045 |
| OpenAlex | W2338221519 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 44 |
Stress has been reported among Swedish social workers for over a decade. Survey data from a longitudinal quasi-experimental trial in the public sector of reduced working hours, with a proportional decrease in workload and retained full pay, were used to examine the effect on stress, symptoms of Exhaustion syndrome, psychosocial work characteristics and work–life balance in social workers. Reduced working hours had a positive effect on restorative sleep, stress, memory difficulties, negative emotion, sleepiness, fatigue and exhaustion both on workdays and weekends; on sleep quality on weekends; and on demands, instrumental manager support and work intrusion on private life
Developmental psychology · Economics · Job satisfaction · Labour economics · Longitudinal data · Longitudinal study · Psychiatry · Psychosocial · Quality of life (healthcare · Quality of working life · Social stress · Working hours · Workload · Clinical Psychology · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Stress and Burnout Research · Workplace Health and Well-being · Gerontology
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Work preferences and well-being in emerging economies
Working Overtime and Turnover Intention Among Chinese Social Workers
The effect of occupational stress on depression and insomnia
An organizational working time reduction and its impact on three domains of mental well-being of employees
Coping with stressful situations in social work before and after reduced working hours, a mixed-methods study
When your source of livelihood also becomes the source of your discomfort
Clustering of health behaviors in male workers and comparisons of incidences of insomnia, sleep apnea, and depression between non-restorative sleep and restorative sleep
Effective workload management in child welfare
Vicariously Resilient or Traumatised Social Workers
Work time reduction via a 4-day workweek finds improvements in workers' well-being
Social work, stress and burnout
Subjective and Objective Sleepiness in the Active Individual
Stress and the Individual
Recovery as an explanatory mechanism in the relation between acute stress reactions and chronic health impairment
The effects of hours of work on health
Psychosocial work environment and mental health—a meta-analytic review
Stress, Social Support, and Workers' Intentions to Leave Their Jobs in Public Child Welfare
The Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ) and its correlates
What Can Be Done to Promote the Retention of Social Workers? A Systematic Review of Interventions
Combining professional work with family responsibilities – a burden or a blessing
Controlled and dependent
Whistleblowing processes in Swedish public organisations—complaints and consequences
Cross-national comparisons of social work—a question of initial assumptions and levels of analysis
Privatisation as professionalisation? Attitudes, motives and achievements among Swedish social workers
Readiness for practice
Unitarian ideals and professional diversity in social work practice—the case of Sweden
The flight from universalism
Predictors of Job Satisfaction of Licensed Social Workers
Job strain, work place social support, and cardiovascular disease
Predictors of Stress Amongst Social Workers
Working in Human Services
Stress and Organizational Culture
Why Are They Leaving? Factors Affecting Intention to Leave among Social Workers in Child Welfare
Statutory Social Workers
Child Welfare Worker Caseload
The welfare state in cross-cultural perspective
The Experiments of Reduced Working Hours in Finland
| Citations per year | 1.71 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |