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Record W4414180358 · doi:10.1192/j.eurpsy.2025.281

The Role of Resilience on Correctional Worker Wellbeing: A Systematic Review

2025· review· en· W4414180358 on OpenAlexaff
S. Lalji-Mawji, Phil Harris, W. M. Tomlin, M. O. Ahedor, B. Ostemeyer, Andrew T Olagunju

Bibliographic record

VenueEuropean Psychiatry · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicResilience and Mental Health
Canadian institutionsSt. Joseph’s Healthcare HamiltonMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsychosocialBurnoutPsychological resilienceResilience (materials science)Set (abstract data type)Work (physics)MEDLINEOccupational stress

Abstract

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Introduction Correctional workers face uniquely stressful conditions that can impact their personal and professional wellbeing. Resilience, defined as the ability to adapt and thrive in adverse conditions, may be a key mitigator of occupational stress. Despite its potential benefits, few reviews examine the wellbeing of correctional workers (Miller, O., Bruenig, D., & Shakespeare-Finch, J. 2022; 49(11), 1559-1579) but have not comprehensively addressed resilience. Objectives 1. Describe resilience and summarize measures used to assess resilience in correctional settings. 2. Investigate the role of resilience on psychosocial wellbeing, burn-out, work performance, work leaves, attitudes, response to adverse incidents and turn-over among correctional workers. 3. Describe risk factors associated with resilience among correctional workers. 4. Describe study-defined strategies to build resiliency and relevant recommendations for future research and clinical practice. Methods The present review was conducted in accordance with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guideline. Major databases (PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, Scopus, and CINAHL) were searched for eligible reports. At least two independent reviewers were responsible for screening and data collection. Conflicts were resolved via discussion, with input from senior authors when necessary. Quality appraisal was conducted for all included reports. Results As shown in Figure 1, a total of 679 articles were identified through major database searches. Title and abstract screening yielded 51 articles eligible for full-text review. The majority of articles were set in North American correctional facilities. Key factors for resilience included support systems, purpose, and optimism, while workplace adversity was a risk factor. Resilience was found to reduce symptoms of burnout and depression, and be crucial for managing psychosocial wellbeing. The presentation will discuss strategies to build resilience and highlight relevant recommendations. Image 1: Conclusions Overall, resilience was found to play a mediating role in the wellbeing of correctional workers. Further studies involving a standardized measure of resilience and broader populations and correctional settings are required to improve the validity and generalizability of findings. Disclosure of Interest None Declared

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: Systematic review
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.419
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.002

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 head0.016
GPT teacher head0.374
Teacher spread0.359 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designSystematic review
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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