Justicia, satisfacción y conductas contraproductivasun estudio con trabajadoras y trabajadores sociales basado en la teoría de las demandas y de los recursos laborales (JD-R)

  1. Urien Angulo, Begoña 1
  2. Díez Valdés, Vicente 2
  3. Osca Segovia, Amparo 3
  1. 1 Universidad Pública de Navarra, España
  2. 2 Universidad del País Vasco, España
  3. 3 Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, España
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Journal:
Cuadernos de trabajo social

ISSN: 0214-0314,  1988-8295

Year of publication: 2019

Volume: 32

Issue: 1

Pages: 141-152

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5209/CUTS.56882 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

Social work professionals have to confront an increasingly strenuous job context (e.g., more users into the system, budgetary cuts, increasing bureaucracy, etc.), and these changes added to their interest in social justice turn their job into a very demanding one. Furthermore, over the few last years, organizational justice has produced a great deal of research, although not in this particular discipline. Based on the Job Demands and Resources theory (JD-R), this paper analyses (1) the direct relationships of job demands (Demands) and organizational justice (Resource) on job satisfaction and on counterproductive behaviour, and (2) the buffering effect of organizational justice as a resource, on the relationship between job demands and job satisfaction, and between job demands and counterproductive behaviour. The sample is made up of 213 social work professionals from various Spanish regions (198 female and mean-age 40.56 years old). Hierarchical regression equations showed that more than job demands, it is organizational justice which is the variable that exerts the highest influence on results (satisfaction and counterproductive behaviour). Specifically, organizational justice explains a great deal of the variance on job satisfaction (40%). Justice also impacts on counterproductive behaviour, both directly as well as reducing the negative effect of high demands. These findings are important both from the theoretical and applied perspectives, since these underline the key role of organizational justice for social workers, beyond job demands.

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