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Park, M.S.-A. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-1269-6856, Goto, N., Kennedy, A., Raj, S., Dutson, A., Park, L. and Sovet, L.,
2020.
Positive orientation, job satisfaction and psychological well-being of mental health practitioners in Malaysia.
Psychology, Health and Medicine.
ISSN 1354-8506
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Abstract
Mental health practitioners in many developing countries are faced with high job demands and a lack of institutional support. Given their high levels of work-related stress, it is important to identify mechanisms that help them to maintain psychological well-being and job satisfaction. Recent research has focused on the role that positive orientation (POS) may play in mediating the negative impact of stress on individual well-being. The present study investigated whether POS predicts mental health practitioners’ perceived levels of stress, mental health and job satisfaction. If POS measures a person’s tendency to take a positive attitude to life and their ability to cope with difficulties, a high POS could be linked to reduced levels of stress and increased levels of job satisfaction and well-being. This study examined associations between self-reported POS and psychological outcomes in a sample of 100 Malaysian mental health practitioners. The results showed that POS significantly predicted job satisfaction positively and mental health issues and perceived stress negatively, even when socio-demographic variables were controlled. Overall, we found a strong effect of POS on individual functioning across the sample of mental health practitioners. Our results have implications for improving practitioner wellbeing and job satisfaction.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | Psychology, Health and Medicine | ||||||
| Creators: | Park, M.S.-A., Goto, N., Kennedy, A., Raj, S., Dutson, A., Park, L. and Sovet, L. | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| Date: | 5 August 2020 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1354-8506 | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||||
| Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher | ||||||
| Date Added: | 06 Nov 2020 12:55 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2021 03:00 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/41540 |
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