Purpose: The objective of this study is to analyze the effect of work-family balance on job satisfaction and stress in government employees.Methodology: a causal, cross-sectional and non-experimental study was conducted, collecting data through an anonymous survey of 341 participants.Findings: work-family reconciliation had moderate levels, standin...
Deliberation is of utmost importance from a democratic perspective because citizens shall be involved in the co-creation process at the local level (SKR 2019). The common theory in deliberate democracy is described as the participation of different people who all have gathered in an arena to voice their opinions (Fishkin 2011). The role of civil se...
Introduction: Using the job demands control support (JDCS) model, we examined the impact of introducing information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the working conditions of civil servants in a major public institution in Gabon. We hypothesized that perceived ICT usability moderates the temporal beneficial/detrimental (dis)continuity of jo...
Published in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
Background Civil servants and physicians play an important role in combating COVID-19. However, it is unclear whether the number of civil servants and physicians is associated with rapid COVID-19 vaccine uptake among older people (i.e., smoother rollout of priority vaccination for older people). Methods Using Poisson regression models of the genera...
Published in Journal of family violence
The mode of training and work of the military personnel is different from that of civil servants and may affect their relationships with their intimate partners. This study assessed and compared the prevalence and correlates of self-reported Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) perpetration against female partners by male military personnel and civil se...
Swedish municipalities are the main employer for the staff in eldercare, a sector where sick leave rates are high and work environment deficiencies are reported. This qualitative grounded theory study aimed to explore how the politicians accountable for eldercare in Sweden perceived their collaboration with civil servants, their understanding of th...
Published in BMC Public Health
BackgroundIt is helpful for collaboration if professionals from the field of health and social welfare and the field of city planning are aware of each other’s concepts of what a healthy living environment entails and what its components are. This study examined perceptions about creating a healthy living environment of professionals from these two...
Research on environmental governance would benefit from greater attention to the practices, agency and subjectivities of the frontline civil servants who implement and shape environmental policies and interventions on the ground. These actors conduct the everyday work of bringing global agreements and state policies into being. In doing so, they in...
Published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
BackgroundGlobally, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have continued to ravage the human existence through the premature deaths of its workforce. Despite this burden, many studies in Nigeria have focused on determining the prevalence of risk factors which alone are insufficient to assess the risk of future cardiovascular events. Therefore, we determin...
Published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
BackgroundKnowledge on the quality of life (QOL) of civil servants is limited. Therefore, the aims of this study were to investigate the QOL of civil servants, and examine whether occupational stress and job satisfaction mediated the association between neuroticism and QOL in civil servants from Shandong, China.MethodsThe cross-sectional study incl...
