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| Title |
Social and relational identification as determinants of care workers’ motivation and well-being
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, October 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01460 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Kirstien Bjerregaard, S. Alexander Haslam, Thomas Morton, Michelle K. Ryan |
| Abstract |
A growing body of research in the field of health and social care indicates that the quality of the relationship between the person giving care and the person receiving it contributes significantly to the motivation and well-being of both. This paper examines how care workers' motivation is shaped by their social and relational identification at work. Survey findings at two time points (T1, N = 643; T2, N = 1274) show that care workers' motivation increases to the extent that incentives, the working context (of residential vs. domiciliary care), and the professionalization process (of acquiring vs. not acquiring a qualification) serve to build and maintain meaningful identities within the organization. In this context care workers attach greatest importance to their relational identity with clients and the more they perceive this as congruent with their organizational identity the more motivated they are. Implications are discussed with regard to the need to develop and sustain a professional and compassionate workforce that is able to meet the needs of an aging society. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 10 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 20% |
| United States | 1 | 10% |
| Australia | 1 | 10% |
| Curaçao | 1 | 10% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 4 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 70% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 20% |
| Scientists | 1 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 71 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 71 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 11% |
| Researcher | 6 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 13 | 18% |
| Unknown | 18 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 24 | 34% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 9 | 13% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 6% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 8 | 11% |
| Unknown | 21 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 November 2015.
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#6,100,606
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Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#8,759
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#70,451
of 283,975 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#151
of 537 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,397,600 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 74th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 32,854 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its peers.
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