This study purpose of examine the relationship between job factors of mental health social worker and the attitudes toward people with psychiatric disabilities, to explore the social support is possible as protecting factor in those relationship. This...
This study purpose of examine the relationship between job factors of mental health social worker and the attitudes toward people with psychiatric disabilities, to explore the social support is possible as protecting factor in those relationship. This study surveyed mental health social workers who work in mental health settings(mental health hospitals, mental health centers, social rehabilitation facilities et al.) attending conservative education, using total 197 case for final analysis.
The result of the research is as follows. First, mental health social worker’s attitudes toward people with psychiatric disabilities, job stress, social support were above average. The client violence experience was lower than the average, but the sexual violence was higher than the average. Second, between dependent variables and major variables showed that client violence, job stress, and social support correlated with attitudes toward people with psychiatric disabilities. The less the client violence experience, the lower the job stress, and the higher the social support, the more positive the attitudes toward people with psychiatric disabilities. Third, job factors had a statistically significant negative impact on the attitudes toward people with psychiatric disabilities. Social support has a statistically significant positive impact on attitudes toward people with psychiatric disabilities. Fourth, social support has a moderating effect on client violence and attitudes toward people with psychiatric disabilities. The higher the level of client violence, the little difference the level of attitudes toward people with psychiatric disabilities in the group with higher social support, while the level of attitudes toward people with psychiatric disabilities in the group with lower social support was rapidly lowered. But social support showed no moderating effect between job stress and the attitude toward people with psychiatric disabilities.
The implications and suggestions of the study are as follows. First, In order to maintain the positive attitude toward people with psychiatric disabilities of mental health social worker, continuing education and human rights education are needed with active preventive measures and systematic support. Second, Based on the results of the study, it is necessary to provide policy support for mental health social worker 's improvement of working environment. Third, In this study the social support was found to be an important moderating variable in the relationship between client violence experiences and attitudes toward people with psychiatric disabilities. This is significant in that it sought ways to mitigate the negative impacts on client violence and attitudes toward people with psychiatric disabilities. Fourth, In this study the social support shown to have no moderating effect between mental health social worker's job stress and attitudes toward people with psychiatric disabilities. The results of this study need to be interpreted carefully, and the moderating effect of social support is required to be verified through various studies in the future.