The Demand-Control model and work-related threats and violence: Short- and long-term associations
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The Demand-Control model and work-related threats and violence : Short- and long-term associations. / Andersen, Lars Peter; Biering, Karin; Høgh, Annie; Gadegaard, Charlotte Ann; Conway, Paul Maurice.
In: Work, Vol. 65, No. 3, 2020, p. 573-580.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The Demand-Control model and work-related threats and violence
T2 - Short- and long-term associations
AU - Andersen, Lars Peter
AU - Biering, Karin
AU - Høgh, Annie
AU - Gadegaard, Charlotte Ann
AU - Conway, Paul Maurice
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - BACKGROUND: Work-related violence and threats are frequent in human service sectors. Although previous studies have identified several psycho-social work environmental risk factors for work-related violence and threats, the research domain still remains mainly descriptive and non-theoretical in nature. OBJECTIVE: Using the Job-Demands-Control model we analysed the relationship between the psycho-social work environment and work-related threats and violence. METHOD: Using a two-wave (2011 and 2015) longitudinal study of 2678 participants, we analysed the main and interactive effects of quantitative demands and job control on exposure to work-related violence and threats. RESULTS: High work demands and low job-control were associated with elevated risk of work-related threats in 2011 and in 2015. The associations of work demands and job control and work-related violence were mixed. There were not statistically significant interaction effects between high demands and low job control on neither work-related violence nor threats. CONCLUSION: In sectors where work-related threats and violence are likely to occur, risk prevention may also require improving the work conditions for employees, more specifically by reducing work-demands and increasing job control for instance by differentiating between important and less important work demands and by implementing self-autonomous work-teams may be a way to increase job control.
AB - BACKGROUND: Work-related violence and threats are frequent in human service sectors. Although previous studies have identified several psycho-social work environmental risk factors for work-related violence and threats, the research domain still remains mainly descriptive and non-theoretical in nature. OBJECTIVE: Using the Job-Demands-Control model we analysed the relationship between the psycho-social work environment and work-related threats and violence. METHOD: Using a two-wave (2011 and 2015) longitudinal study of 2678 participants, we analysed the main and interactive effects of quantitative demands and job control on exposure to work-related violence and threats. RESULTS: High work demands and low job-control were associated with elevated risk of work-related threats in 2011 and in 2015. The associations of work demands and job control and work-related violence were mixed. There were not statistically significant interaction effects between high demands and low job control on neither work-related violence nor threats. CONCLUSION: In sectors where work-related threats and violence are likely to occur, risk prevention may also require improving the work conditions for employees, more specifically by reducing work-demands and increasing job control for instance by differentiating between important and less important work demands and by implementing self-autonomous work-teams may be a way to increase job control.
KW - Job-Demands-Control model
KW - Longitudinal study
KW - Work-related violence and threats
U2 - 10.3233/WOR-203111
DO - 10.3233/WOR-203111
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 32116275
AN - SCOPUS:85082146354
VL - 65
SP - 573
EP - 580
JO - Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation
JF - Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation
SN - 1051-9815
IS - 3
ER -
ID: 252827822