| This study was aimed to investigate how spiritual well-being influences the responses of human service professionals to secondary trauma in the workplace. The department of social services used in the study was in a rural county in the Eastern part of North Carolina, comprised of approximately 110 human service professionals. Two surveys were utilized to measure the responses of secondary trauma and spiritual well-being. Scores from the Secondary Traumatic Stress scale were used as predictor variables, and scores from the Spiritual Well-Being Scale as criterion variables. Demographic variables were also used to capture demographic information from the participants. Key findings of the study, as well as its future implications, and limitations were discussed in the study. The findings of this study imply that spiritual well-being may influence the responses of secondary trauma among human service professionals in the workplace. |
