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Ingår våld i tjänsten? : En studie om upplevelser av att möta våld i sin tjänsteutövning

Engblom, Teresia and Wollin, Joakim (2005)
School of Social Work
Abstract
Our aim was to explore employees' experiences of exposure to violence, threats of violence as well as their experiences of encountering victims of violence and to relate their experiences to Sense of coherence (SOC) and Maslach's burnout inventory (MBI).

We sent out a questionnaire to employees at three different workplaces. Our questionnaire included previously validated SOC and MBI questionnaires as well as six additional questions regarding violence. We sought to explore the relationships between experience of exposure to violence and encounters of victims of violence and SOC and MBI. We found that employees with a higher level of SOC exposed to violence or threats felt a higher level of security. In encountering victims of violence we... (More)
Our aim was to explore employees' experiences of exposure to violence, threats of violence as well as their experiences of encountering victims of violence and to relate their experiences to Sense of coherence (SOC) and Maslach's burnout inventory (MBI).

We sent out a questionnaire to employees at three different workplaces. Our questionnaire included previously validated SOC and MBI questionnaires as well as six additional questions regarding violence. We sought to explore the relationships between experience of exposure to violence and encounters of victims of violence and SOC and MBI. We found that employees with a higher level of SOC exposed to violence or threats felt a higher level of security. In encountering victims of violence we found that employees with a lower level of SOC more frequently experienced indifference, fear and anger. SOC was found to correlate with the three dimensions of MBI. However, the three dimensions were found to have low covariance. (Less)
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author
Engblom, Teresia and Wollin, Joakim
supervisor
organization
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
våld i arbetslivet, våld, arbetsmiljö, Social problems and welfare, national insurance, Sociala problem, social välfärd, socialförsäkring
language
Swedish
id
1332464
date added to LUP
2005-01-18 00:00:00
date last changed
2005-01-18 00:00:00
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  abstract     = {{Our aim was to explore employees' experiences of exposure to violence, threats of violence as well as their experiences of encountering victims of violence and to relate their experiences to Sense of coherence (SOC) and Maslach's burnout inventory (MBI).

We sent out a questionnaire to employees at three different workplaces. Our questionnaire included previously validated SOC and MBI questionnaires as well as six additional questions regarding violence. We sought to explore the relationships between experience of exposure to violence and encounters of victims of violence and SOC and MBI. We found that employees with a higher level of SOC exposed to violence or threats felt a higher level of security. In encountering victims of violence we found that employees with a lower level of SOC more frequently experienced indifference, fear and anger. SOC was found to correlate with the three dimensions of MBI. However, the three dimensions were found to have low covariance.}},
  author       = {{Engblom, Teresia and Wollin, Joakim}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Ingår våld i tjänsten? : En studie om upplevelser av att möta våld i sin tjänsteutövning}},
  year         = {{2005}},
}