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Item Psychometric properties of the Job Burnout Scale among social service workers: A pilot study(Western Michigan University, 2020) Thomas, Madhavappallil; Li, YongThis study examined the psychometric properties of the Job Burnout Scale among Social Service Workers (JBSSW). The JBSSW was administered among 248 social service workers employed in governmental and nonprofit social service agencies. Findings show that that this scale has three independent dimensions: person-related burnout, work-related burnout, and agency-related burnout. All three dimensions have good reliability and construct validity. Work-related burnout and agencyrelated burnout also have good concurrent validity. This scale may be used by social service agencies, researchers, and practitioners to gauge staff burnout and alleviate it by changing the interactions between individuals, the nature of their work, and the agency environment.Item The mediating role of job satisfaction in the stressor–strain relationship among Chinese government employees(Nature, 2023-11-22) Li, Yong; Yang, Fengyin; Zhang, Wei; Zhang, ZhaoIn recent years, China has seen a sharp increase in job stress-related suicides among government employees. Existing research already identifies a stressor–strain relationship, although more studies are warranted to investigate how this relationship is played out among Chinese government employees. The Healthy Work Organization model posits that work adjustment (such as job satisfaction) can mediate the stressor–strain relationship. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of job satisfaction (as a mediator variable) in the relationship between job stressors and job strain among Chinese government employees. Convenience sampling was used to collect data among 505 government employees in Hangzhou, China. Online and face-to-face survey data were collected and analyzed in Mplus Version 8.3. Mediation analyses using the bootstrapping method revealed that job satisfaction fully mediated the effects of relationships and recognition and partially mediated the effect of home-work balance. However, it did not mediate the effect of personal responsibility. Given these findings, Chinese government agencies can boost job satisfaction by providing more supervisory support and career development opportunities and by reducing the interference of work with their employees’ family life. These moves will likely reduce job stress-related mental and physical health symptoms.Item The Relation between acculturation and psychological well-being among adolescents of Asian origin(Redfame Publishing Inc., 2018) Li, Yong; Guo, YuqiThe current study aimed to test the direct and indirect effects of acculturation on the psychological well-being among the adolescent children of Asian origin. Subgroup analysis was conducted to compare these effects between Asian refugee and non-refugee children. Data were from the follow-up survey of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS). The analytic sample included adolescents from Asian refugee families (N = 563) and non-refugee families (N = 779). Adolescent acculturation was assessed by three proxy measures: nativity, time in the United States, and U.S. preference. Family dynamics were measured by adolescents’ perceptions about parent-child conflict and family cohesion. Multi-group structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. Findings suggested that the direct effects of acculturation on psychological well-being were dependent upon the proxy measure of acculturation and the immigration type. Mediation analyses showed that higher level of acculturation was generally related to higher parent-child conflict and lower family cohesion, which, in turn, were associated with lower psychological well-being in the refugee subsample, but not the non-refugee subsample. Our findings call for programs that can take advantage of the protective role of family cohesion and reduce the negative impact of parent-child conflict. Special attention needs to be paid to the refugee population from Asia.