Perceptions of the professional self-concept of social workers in the context of the stress Covid-19 experience: a cross-sectional study

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=cyC4YN9TWt" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=cyC4YN9TWt</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2024.2407863" target="_blank" >10.1080/13691457.2024.2407863</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Perceptions of the professional self-concept of social workers in the context of the stress Covid-19 experience: a cross-sectional study

Original language description

This study aimed to describe and analyse the subjective perceived professional self-concept of social workers during the stress of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the Czech Republic, we conducted an extensive cross-sectional survey that focused on one factor of professional identity: professional self-concept, whose three components (cognitive, emotional and conative) were transformed into five questionnaire items. These became the basis of the newly developed Post-Covid Professional Attitude index, which indicates subjective self-perception of the profession. Based on the results, we conclude that this stressful situation may have had an overall positive effect on the professional self-concept of social workers. Although they expressed no change in their primary motivation for pursuing their profession, they now perceive it as more important, necessary, and express greater professional self-confidence. The study also has a secondary benefit: its results may reframe the debate on the pandemic situation, which has not only had negative effects, but also - at least in terms of social workers&apos; professional self-concept - probably had a positive impact. These findings are important for understanding current and more general developments in social work.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50403 - Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Social Work

ISSN

1369-1457

e-ISSN

1468-2664

Volume of the periodical

neuveden

Issue of the periodical within the volume

neuveden

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

1-14

UT code for WoS article

001359405400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85209999640