The moderating effect of work-family spillover on occupational stress and burnout among experienced audiologists.

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Audiology
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Master of Audiology
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English
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2024
Authors
Singh, Hasnita Kiran
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Research has underlined the importance of understanding the spillover between work and family as a means of decreasing occupational stress, burnout, and improving the well-being of employees and their clients. Though occupational stress, burnout, positive and negative spillover have been studied in healthcare, the focus has remained on nurses and doctors. The aim of this research was to expand this understanding on audiologists in a time of societal changes and increasing demand for hearing and balance care. As a part of the study, 66 experienced audiologists from Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and the United States of America completed a survey containing 87 items. The results of this study showed that work-family negative spillover acted bidirectionally and functioned as significant moderators in the relationship between occupational stress and occupational burnout. Similarly, work-to-family positive spillover had significant interactions with occupational stress and occupational. However, in this sample size of there was not enough evidence to suggest that family-to-work positive spillover played a significant moderating role in occupational stress leading to occupational burnout.

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