A survey of psychological practitioner workplace well-being



Summers, Elisabeth MA, Morris, Reg C, Bhutani, Gita E ORCID: 0000-0002-2732-6479, Rao, Amra S and Clarke, Jeremy C
(2021) A survey of psychological practitioner workplace well-being. CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHOTHERAPY, 28 (2). pp. 438-451.

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Abstract

The well-being of the psychological workforce is an area of concern. However, it has been sparsely studied in a holistic manner encompassing workplace well-being as well as burnout. This study reports a survey of 1,678 psychological practitioners accessed through professional networks. The short Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS) and the Psychological Practitioner Workplace Well-being Measure (PPWWM) were administered with a demographic questionnaire. The mean for the SWEMWBS was below that of a national population survey. The intercorrelation of these tests was .61. Subgroup analyses showed significant differences: assistant psychologists, counsellors and psychological well-being practitioners demonstrated better than average workplace well-being. But for general well-being (SWEMWBS), trainee clinical psychologists and assistant psychologists showed lower than average well-being, whereas psychological well-being practitioners were higher than average. Other factors associated with well-being were contract type-both measures (higher workplace well-being in those with temporary contracts and the self-employed); employment sector-for PPWWM only (private organisation/independent workers and third sector/charitable organisation workers scored above the PPWWM mean); ethnicity-for both measures (Asian groups except Chinese had higher well-being than average for the PPWWM and SWEMWBS) and disability was strongly associated with lower well-being on both measures. Harassment, feeling depressed or a failure and wanting to leave the National Health Service (NHS) were associated with lower well-being. Greater age, pay and years of service were negatively correlated with well-being. A five-factor structure was obtained with this sample. The results confirmed psychological practitioners as an at-risk group and identified a number of factors associated with workplace well-being.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Humans, Burnout, Professional, Psychology, Psychometrics, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Middle Aged, Workplace, State Medicine, Female, Male, Young Adult, Surveys and Questionnaires
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 09 Nov 2020 09:05
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2023 23:23
DOI: 10.1002/cpp.2509
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3106201