The moderating effect of employee hostility on the association of long-term elderly care unit's negative resident characteristics to employee stress and well-being.
This study examined the moderating effect of employee hostility on the association of unit-level resident characteristics (depression and behavioral problems) to individual-level employee's resident-related stress and psychological well-being during 1-year follow-up study among 501 employees in elderly care. Our results showed that employee hostility was associated with decreased psychological well-being. In addition, hostility moderated the association between unit-level proportion of depressive residents and resident-related stress experienced by the individual employees. Hostile employees reported increased resident-related stress irrespective of the proportion of depressed residents in the unit. Instead, nonhostile employees were sensitive to the depression in the unit. They reported low levels of stress when depression levels in the unit were low and increased stress when depression levels were high.
Heponiemi
Tarja
T
National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, Helsinki, Finland. tarja.heponiemi@stakes.fi
Elovainio
Marko
M
Pekkarinen
Laura
L
Noro
Anja
A
Finne-Soveri
Harriet
H
Sinervo
Timo
T
D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D010559:Personnel Management; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires