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A preliminary investigation into staff satisfaction and staff emotions and attitudes in a unit for men with learning disabilities and serious challenging behaviours
- Authors:
- BELL Dorothy M., ESPIE Colin A.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 30(1), March 2002, pp.19-27.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes a preliminary investigation into staff satisfaction, and staff emotions and attitudes towards residents in a traditional setting for people with both learning disabilities and serious challenging behaviours and discusses the implications for the future research. The findings indicate that staff satisfaction was low and could be improved considerably in terms of management support. However, the level of satisfaction in working with the residents in the unit was high. The results also showed the coexistence of different attitudes and emotions which could be described as positive and negative in individual staff members. To assesses this, the present authors used a new, 13-item analogue measure, the Attitudes to People Who Display Challenging Behaviour questionnaire.