The Impact of Job Resources on Job Satisfaction, Emotion, and Psychological Health Among Social Workers in China.

Abstract

Social work is a caring profession, as social workers are required to provide psychological support and emotional caring for clients. If social workers have psychological distress, low job satisfaction, and conflicting job emotions, their services for the clients will be severely affected. To achieve the goal of better serving others, social workers should have a good state of mind. Their psychological health, job emotions, and satisfaction are thus extremely important to their career. Our findings show job support, job autonomy, and job task can be very effective ways to improve social workers' psychological well-being.