[Modeling employee stress in psychiatric rehabilitation--effects of personal and organizational factors]

Increasing stress-associated health problems in Germany often are attributed to problems on the job, in particular to rising work demands. The study includes several stress predictors from other results and from literature in one predictive model for the field of work of "psychiatric rehabilitation".A cross-sectional design was used to measure personal and organizational variables with quantitative standard questionnaires as self-ratings from n=243 pedagogically active employees from various professions. Overall stress and job stress were measured with different instruments.The sample showed above-average overall stress scores along with below-average job stress scores. The multivariate predictive model for explaining the heightened stress shows pathogenetic and salutogenetic main effects for organizational variables such as "gratification crisis" and personal variables such as "occupational self-efficacy expectations" as well as an interaction of both types of variables. There are relevant gender-specific results concerning empathy and differences between professions concerning the extent of occupational self-efficacy.The results are a matter of particular interest for the practice of workplace health promotion as well as for social work schools, the main group in our sample being social workers.