Socialtjänsten som framtida arbetsplats : En kvantitativ studie om socionomstudenters attityder gentemot socialtjänsten och vilja att arbeta inom myndigheten

Sammanfattning: There exists a strained situation with social services in Sweden. Many social services consists a lack of educated social workers. Furthermore, it is thought by social work students that the work is heavy and stressful. As numerous of today's students have social services as a future workplace, the purpose of this survey is to see what attitudes the students possess about the profession. Further, the purpose is also to see if these attitudes affect their willingness to work with social services after they graduate. A survey is conducted with 94 students that study social work at Linnaeus University in Kalmar. The students who participated are in semester 2, 4 and 6. The results show that there exists a mainly positive attitude towards social services and that social services carry out an important work. On the other hand, the result also shows that many students felt that the work environment is stressful and has a high work strain. The result further shows that the students' attitude has an impact on their willingness to work with social services. However, a majority of the students would only work with social services as their first job or a shorter period of their career.