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Work Stress, Burnout, and Social and Personal Resources among Direct Care Workers
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Gray-Stanley, Jennifer A.; Muramatsu, Naoko – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Work stress is endemic among direct care workers (DCWs) who serve people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Social resources, such as work social support, and personal resources, such as an internal locus of control, may help DCWs perceive work overload and other work-related stressors as less threatening and galvanize them to cope…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Stress Management, Locus of Control, Social Support Groups