Work

Psychological agency attenuates the link between discrimination and COVID-19 burnout in Latine-serving community health workers.

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: = 81 Latine-serving CHWs) completed standardized measures of discrimination and burnout. Participants also provided discrimination narratives which were coded for psychological agency. Higher frequency of self-reported discrimination significantly predicted higher work- and COVID-related burnout. Additionally, agency moderated the association between discrimination and COVID-related burnout, such that at high levels of agency, discrimination no longer predicted COVID-related burnout. However, agency did not significantly moderate the link between discrimination and work-related burnout. Findings suggest that strengthening agency may protect Latine-serving CHWs from the adverse effects of discrimination during periods of acute external stress. Programs building on this buffer may be particularly crucial in the current period of sociopolitical hostility toward immigrant Latine communities and may have implications for workers serving other vulnerable communities.

Source: Translational Issues in Psychological Science

DOI: 10.1037/tps0000503