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Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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Understanding The Work Demands, Resources, And Barriers To Achieving Optimal Well-Being In Immigrant Workers, Amira Marquez Moreno, Kristen J. Black Oct 2023

Understanding The Work Demands, Resources, And Barriers To Achieving Optimal Well-Being In Immigrant Workers, Amira Marquez Moreno, Kristen J. Black

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

According to recent reports of immigrants working in poor conditions worldwide, the International Committee of Health (ICOH, 2021) has declared the immediate need to create scientific evidence to encourage a preventive culture in occupational health for migrant workers. In 2019, 470,125 immigrants lived in Tennessee, of which 43% are Latino, and Spanish the most common language (76%). The present study aims to identify the work-demands, resources, and barriers to achieve optimal well-being in immigrant workers with a sample recruited from Chattanooga and the surrounding area. Participants will be recruited through convenience and snowball sampling with the inclusion criteria of being …