Τίτλος:
Investigation of the Relationship Between Aggression and Adult
Attachment in Healthcare Professionals
Γλώσσες Τεκμηρίου:
Αγγλικά
Περίληψη:
Introduction
Multiple references to the violent and especially difficult patient have
been presented by the international literature. However, there is little
literature on the aggressive behaviors of health professionals in their
workplaces. The aim of this research is to record and correlate
aggression and attachment type data of adult health professionals.
Methods
The sample includes 192 individuals (43 men and 149 women) health
professionals in the private and public sector, aged 20 to 60 years, who
were selected by the method of random sampling. The survey was conducted
from February 2018 to May 2018. The Greek version of the Aggression
Questionnaire and the Greek version of the Revised Experiences in Close
Relationships (G-ECR-R) self-report inventory were used and the analysis
was performed with the Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS 26)
(IBM Corp., Armonk, NY).
Results
The analysis shows that the dimension of avoidance has a positive
correlation with hostility and physical aggression and the dimension of
stress has a positive correlation with anger, physical aggression and
hostility. It also seems that the stress dimension of the adult
attachment contributes significantly positively to the prediction of
anger and the stress dimension contributes significantly to the
prediction of hostility. The dimension of avoiding adult attachment
contributes significantly to the prediction of physical aggression.
Conclusions
To our knowledge, no studies were found in the literature to examine the
relationship between the subscales of aggression and dimensions of
attachment. It is important that violence in the workplace is recognized
as an underlying occupational risk and not just as a matter of criminal
law. Finally, more research is needed to study the phenomenon in order
to make it more understandable.
Συγγραφείς:
Baras, Spyros
Lekka, Dimitra
Bokari, Maria
Orlandou,
Konstantina
Arachoviti, Vasileia
Roubi, Aikaterini and
Tsaraklis, Athanasios
Pachi, Argiro
Douzenis, Athanasios
Λέξεις-κλειδιά:
patients; violence; health care professionals; adult attachment;
aggression
DOI:
10.7759/cureus.19360
