Reports from St. Louis University Highlight Recent Findings in Social Work (Financial Well-being of the Non-profit Social Service Workforce In China): Social Work

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2022 JAN 25 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Fresh data on Social Work are presented in a new report. According to news reporting from St. Louis, Missouri, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Using secondary data from the 2017 online survey of 736 non-profit social service employees in urban China, this study provides a complete description of the financial well-being of the non-profit social service workforce and examines correlates of financial well-being.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from St. Louis University, “Results show that non-profit employees’ household income is lower than the disposable income of a typical urban household. Nearly one-third of social service professionals have short-term unsecured debts, 10 per cent do not have public health insurance coverage and another 22 per cent report economic hardships caused by large unexpected expenses.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Correlates of financial well-being include individual characteristics (e.g. age, education and marital status) and organizational characteristics (type, revenue and size). New services (e.g. employment-based programmes and financial services) are proposed to promote financial well-being of non-profit social service employees in China.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Financial Well-being of the Non-profit Social Service Workforce In China. The British Journal of Social Work, 2021;51(8):3035-3054. The British Journal of Social Work can be contacted at: Oxford Univ Press, Great Clarendon St, Oxford OX2 6DP, England.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Jin Huang, St. Louis University, School of Social Work, 309 Tegeler Hall, 3550 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63103, United States. Additional authors for this research include Ling Zhou and Baorong Guo.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa176. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.