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Record W2052898791 · doi:10.1111/1464-0597.00152

Reactions to Increased Workload: Effects on Professional Efficacy of Nurses

2003· article· fr· W2052898791 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueApplied Psychology · 2003
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicJob Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumanitiesPolitical sciencePsychologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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Les résultats de recherches empiriques impliquant plusiers échantillons de travailleurs différents supportent l’idée que la charge de travail est un stresseur significatif associéà une variété de réactions psychologiques nuisibles, incluant l’épuisement professionnel. La présente étude propose un modèle théorique dans lequel la charge de travail contribue à la détresse et à la dépression. De plus en plus, les organisations vivent des changements en conséquence à des restructurations majeures. Par exemple, face aux restrictions budgétaires, les hôpitaux ont été forcés à la restructuration, aux fusions, à la compression d’effectifs, voire même à la fermeture. La charge de travail des employés, et plus particulièrement des infirmières, a augmenté. Cette étude applique un modèle théorique pour mieux comprendre l’impact de la charge de travail sur les infirmières—et plus particulièrement sur leur détresse, épuisement professionnel, et dépression—à l’emploi d’hôpitaux subissant des compressions d’effectifs. Les participants ( n = 488) sont des infirmières à l’emploi d’hôpitaux ayant vécu des restructurations dans lesquels des unités ont déjàété fermées en conséquence à ces restructurations. Les résultats d’analyses d’équations structurelles montrent que les données correspondent partiellement au modèle et que la charge de travail a contribué de façon substantielle aux niveaux de dépression via les réactions de détresse. D’autres résultats ont démontré que le cynisme, la colère, et l’épuisement émotionnel ont significativement opérationnalisé les réactions de détresse. En liant la colére, le cynisme et l’épuisement émotionnel dans un seul modèle prédisant les niveaux de détresse dus à la charge de travail, cette étude est unique d’un point de vue théorique. Les résultats indiquant que la colère, le cynisme, et l’épuisement émotionnel ont opérationnalisé la détresse dénotent l’importance d’étudier les modèles de réactions négatives et leurs conséquences sur la dépression. Les implications des résultats sont discutées en regard d’interventions pouvant être utilisées par les organisations pour réduire les charges de travail. Research findings support the idea that workload is a significant stressor associated with a variety of deleterious psychological reactions, including burnout, in several different samples of workers. A theoretical model is put forth in the present study in which workload is seen as contributing to distress and depression. Increasingly, organisations are experiencing changes as a result of extensive downsizing, restructuring, and merging. As a result of fiscal restraint, hospitals have been forced to merge, close, downsize, and restructure. Workloads have increased among hospital staff, particularly nurses. This study applies a theoretical model to the understanding of the impact of workload on nurses employed in hospitals experiencing downsizing, particularly on their distress, burnout, and depression. Respondents were 488 nurses who were employed in hospitals that were undergoing restructuring and in which units had already been closed as a result of restructuring. Results of structural equation modeling showed that the data partially fit the model and that workload contributed substantially to levels of depression through distress reactions. Further results showed that cynicism, anger, and emotional exhaustion significantly operationalised distress reactions. This study is unique theoretically in linking anger, cynicism, and emotional exhaustion in a single model that predicts distress levels from workload. The findings that anger, cynicism, and emotional exhaustion operationalised distress indicate the importance of studying patterns of negative reactions and their consequences for depression. Implications of the results are discussed for interventions that can be taken by organisations in order to reduce workloads.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.712
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.005

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.306
Teacher spread0.292 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it