TY - JOUR
T1 - Judicial stress
T2 - the roles of gender and social support
AU - Miller, Monica K.
AU - Reichert, Jenny
AU - Bornstein, Brian H.
AU - Shulman, Grant
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the National Judicial College, which provided funding and technical assistance that made this research possible.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 The Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.
PY - 2018/7/4
Y1 - 2018/7/4
N2 - Because judges experience a myriad of occupational stressors, they are at risk of experiencing secondary trauma, burnout, negative mental/physical health, poor job performance and low job satisfaction. These experiences might not be uniform, however, as gender and social support might mitigate such stress-related outcomes. Judges from two states in the United States completed a variety of stress and subjective performance measures. Social support was related to less perceived stress, less burnout, and more job satisfaction, but only for males. This suggests that males and females might receive qualitatively different types of social support. Different types of social support could differ in their ability to buffer judges from these stress-related outcomes. Further, among judges with high social support, females scored higher than males on subjective job performance; the opposite pattern occurred for judges with low social support. Thus, a lack of social support appears to have a negative effect on performance self-appraisals but only for females. Results have implications for the psychological study of stress and for programs designed to reduce judges’ stress.
AB - Because judges experience a myriad of occupational stressors, they are at risk of experiencing secondary trauma, burnout, negative mental/physical health, poor job performance and low job satisfaction. These experiences might not be uniform, however, as gender and social support might mitigate such stress-related outcomes. Judges from two states in the United States completed a variety of stress and subjective performance measures. Social support was related to less perceived stress, less burnout, and more job satisfaction, but only for males. This suggests that males and females might receive qualitatively different types of social support. Different types of social support could differ in their ability to buffer judges from these stress-related outcomes. Further, among judges with high social support, females scored higher than males on subjective job performance; the opposite pattern occurred for judges with low social support. Thus, a lack of social support appears to have a negative effect on performance self-appraisals but only for females. Results have implications for the psychological study of stress and for programs designed to reduce judges’ stress.
KW - burnout
KW - gender
KW - judge
KW - occupational stress
KW - social support
KW - trauma
KW - well-being
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U2 - 10.1080/13218719.2018.1469436
DO - 10.1080/13218719.2018.1469436
M3 - Article
C2 - 31984041
AN - SCOPUS:85048104135
VL - 25
SP - 602
EP - 618
JO - Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
JF - Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
SN - 1321-8719
IS - 4
ER -