Date of Award
5-2022
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Committee Chair/Advisor
Dr. Marissa Shuffler-Porter
Committee Member
Dr. Thomas W. Britt
Committee Member
Dr. Patrick Rosopa
Committee Member
Dr. Emily Hirsh
Abstract
Healthcare organizations have been heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with emergency departments (EDs) facing especially large burdens. Increased patient volumes, fewer opportunities to disengage from work, and the persistence of the pandemic over many months continue to place demands on emergency medicine clinicians (EMC) and may elevate their levels of psychological stress. Psychological resilience and meaningful work experiences may protect EMC from these negative effects but may also be negatively impacted by high levels of ED crowding. Using the Job-Demands Resources model as a theoretical framework, this dissertation sough to explore how ED crowding (measured objectively and subjectively), psychological resilience, and meaningful work experiences function to impact EMCs’ self-reported psychological distress. A mixed methods design was used to triangulate data from qualitative and qualitative results. Psychological resilience and meaningful work experiences were both negatively associated with psychological distress. Neither objective nor subjective ED crowding were not significantly associated with psychological distress. Psychological resilience and meaningful work experiences did not moderate the relationships between ED crowding and psychological distress.
Recommended Citation
McCallus Pegram, Riley, "On the Frontlines of COVID-19: A JD-R Approach to Better Understand Emergency Medicine Clinicians' Psychological Well-Being" (2022). All Dissertations. 3001.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_dissertations/3001
Author ORCID Identifier
0000-0002-5495-9052