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Kukla P, Kózka M, Siemiginowska P, Ilczak T, Augustyn M, Malinowska-Lipień I. Job satisfaction and social identification among paramedics in southern Poland. Front Public Health 2024; 12:1422933. [PMID: 38993710 PMCID: PMC11238188 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1422933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2024] [Accepted: 05/31/2024] [Indexed: 07/13/2024] Open
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Introduction Job satisfaction, based on professional and non-professional factors and individual characteristics of employees, is an important element influencing both the quality of care provided and employee turnover. Material and method The study included 137 paramedics employed in field teams and hospital emergency departments. The Job Satisfaction Scale (SSP), the Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ), the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES), and the Three Dimensional Strength of Group Identification Scale (TSIG) were used to collect the data. Results The average job satisfaction score measured with SSP in the studied group of paramedics was 24.50 and the average job satisfaction score measured with MSQ was 74.16. The average value of the group identification in the study sample was 61.15. Of the three subscales, the highest scores were obtained in the affect toward the group subscale -22.44, and the lowest in the cognitive centrality subscale -18.78. The analysis showed that job satisfaction positively correlated with social identification (r = 0.43) and the ingroup ties (r = 0.43), cognitive centrality (r = 0.34) and ingroup affect (r = 0.37). Conclusions The studied group of paramedics showed moderate job satisfaction (measured with SSP) and work engagement, with a simultaneous high level of job satisfaction (measured with MSQ) and social identification with the professional group. Social identification of studied paramedics varied depending on gender. Women showed higher levels of cognitive centrality, which might mean that they might have had greater need to categorize themselves as paramedics.
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- Paweł Kukla
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Applied Psychology, Faculty of Management and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bielsko-Biala, Bielsko-Biała, Poland
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
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Odero SA, Mwangi P, Odhiambo R, Mumbua Nzioka B, Shumba C, Ndirangu-Mugo E, Abubakar A. Psychometric evaluation of PHQ-9 and GAD-7 among community health volunteers and nurses/midwives in Kenya following a nation-wide telephonic survey. Front Psychiatry 2023; 14:1123839. [PMID: 37324823 PMCID: PMC10264862 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1123839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2022] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023] Open
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Background Nurses/midwives and Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) are exposed to chronic stressors putting them at risk of developing mental health problems. This has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. There is limited empirical evidence of the burden of mental health problems among health care workers partly due to the lack of adequately standardized and validated measures for use among health care workers in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study aimed to perform the psychometric evaluation of the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 administered to nurses/midwives and CHVs across 47 counties in Kenya. Methods Between June and November 2021, a national survey on mental well-being and resilience among nurses/midwives and CHVs was conducted via telephone interviews. The survey had a total sample size of 1907 nurses/midwives and 2027 CHVs. Cronbach's alpha and MacDonalds' omega were used to evaluate the scale's internal consistency. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was used to test the one-factor structure of the scales. Multi-group CFA was applied to evaluate the generalizability of the scales across the Swahili and English versions, and among male and female health workers. The Spearman correlation was used to assess the tools' divergent and convergent validity. Results The internal consistency of PHQ-9 and GAD-7 was good, with alpha and omega values above 0.7 across study samples. CFA results indicated a one-factor structure of the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 for both nurses/midwives and CHVs. Multi-group CFA showed that both scales were unidimensional across both language and sex. The PHQ-9 and GAD-7 were significantly negatively correlated with resilience and work engagement, supporting divergent validity. The PHQ-9 and GAD-7 were also significantly positively correlated with resilience and work engagement, supporting divergent validity. Conclusion The PHQ-9 and GAD-7 are unidimensional, reliable, and valid tools for screening depression and anxiety among nurses/midwives and CHVs. The tools can be administered in a similar population or study setting using either Swahili or English.
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- Institute for Human Development, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Institute for Human Development, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya
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- School of Nursing and Midwifery, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Institute for Human Development, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya
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Domínguez-Salas S, Rodríguez-Domínguez C, Arcos-Romero AI, Allande-Cussó R, García-Iglesias JJ, Gómez-Salgado J. Psychometric Properties of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-9) in a Sample of Active Health Care Professionals in Spain. Psychol Res Behav Manag 2022; 15:3461-3472. [DOI: 10.2147/prbm.s387242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2022] [Accepted: 11/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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García-Sánchez JN, García-Martín J. Cognitive Strategies and Textual Genres in the Teaching and Evaluation of Advanced Reading Comprehension (ARC). Front Psychol 2021; 12:723281. [PMID: 34712173 PMCID: PMC8546180 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.723281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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In the last decade, published data on the performance of Colombian students have concerned educators and researchers, making critical reading one of the priorities of Colombian education. That is why this article presents the results of a study carried out in a Latin American university in which the perceptions of students and professors are analyzed regarding the strategies and textual genres used to work and cross-evaluate the advanced reading comprehension (ARC). This study is materialized in the application of an ad hoc online questionnaire, in its two versions (students and teachers), designed through Survey Monkey. For this, it has the participation of 182 teachers and 2,775 students. There are several trends in the use of specific textual strategies and typologies to work and evaluate ARC, by both, depending on the department of assignment. The evidence found is provided and evaluated considering the implications for cross-curricular instruction and assessment in higher education in Latin America, including study limitations and prospects for overcoming them.
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- Jesús-Nicasio García-Sánchez
- Department of Psychology, Sociology and Philosophy, Universidad de León, León, Spain.,Department of Humanities, Universidad De La Costa, Barranquilla, Colombia
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- Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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Wang Y, Gao Y, Xun Y. Work engagement and associated factors among dental nurses in China. BMC Oral Health 2021; 21:402. [PMID: 34399752 PMCID: PMC8369711 DOI: 10.1186/s12903-021-01766-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2021] [Accepted: 08/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Work engagement is affected by many factors. The level of work engagement among dental nurses is unknown. METHODS A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted among 215 dental nurses. The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, Chinese Nurse Stressors Scale, Work-related Acceptance and Action Questionnaire, Multi-dimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, and General Well-Being Schedule were applied to measure Chinese nurses' work engagement, job stress, psychological flexibility, perceived social support and subjective well-being, respectively. Univariate analysis was used to identify the relationships of work engagement with demographic and psychological characteristics. Hierarchical linear regression analysis was applied to test the variance in work engagement accounted for by factors related to work engagement in the univariate analysis. RESULTS The level of work engagement among Chinese dental nurses was moderate or above. Work engagement was positively associated with perceived social support, psychological flexibility and subjective well-being but negatively correlated with job stress. The hierarchical regression analysis showed that age, job stress, psychological flexibility and subjective well-being were significantly correlated with work engagement, though perceived social support was not, all of those psychological variables together explained 34.7% of the variance in work engagement. CONCLUSIONS Dental nurses in China had an acceptable level of work engagement in terms of vigour, dedication and absorption. Increased job stress resulted in lower work engagement. Nurses who had higher levels of perceived social support, psychological flexibility and subjective well-being also had higher work engagement. It is necessary to understand the job stress of nurses, strengthen nurses' social support, relieve nurses' job stress, improve nurses' psychological flexibility and subjective well-being, which will improve nurses' work engagement levels.
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- Yujing Wang
- Department of Nursing, School and Hospital of Stomatology, China Medical University, Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, Shenyang, 110002, People's Republic of China.
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- Department of Nursing, School and Hospital of Stomatology, China Medical University, Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, Shenyang, 110002, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Nursing, School and Hospital of Stomatology, China Medical University, Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, Shenyang, 110002, People's Republic of China
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Tran TTT, Watanabe K, Imamura K, Nguyen HT, Sasaki N, Kuribayashi K, Sakuraya A, Nguyen NT, Bui TM, Nguyen QT, Truong TQ, Nguyen GTH, Minas H, Tsustumi A, Shimazu A, Kawakami N. Reliability and validity of the Vietnamese version of the 9-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale. J Occup Health 2021; 62:e12157. [PMID: 32827229 PMCID: PMC7443047 DOI: 10.1002/1348-9585.12157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2020] [Revised: 07/02/2020] [Accepted: 07/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Objectives The present study investigated the reliability and validity of a newly developed Vietnamese version of the 9‐item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES‐9‐V) in a sample of hospital nurses in Hanoi, Vietnam. Methods The UWES‐9 was translated into Vietnamese following a standard procedure. A survey was conducted of 949 registered nurses in a large tertiary general hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2018, using a self‐administered questionnaire including the Vietnamese UWES‐9, other scales measuring health status, work performance, job demand, job control, and workplace social support, and questions pertaining to demographic variables. Cronbach’s alpha and interclass correlation coefficients (ICC) were calculated to assess reliability. Explanatory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to assess factorial validity. Convergent validity was tested based on associations between the UWES‐9‐V and subscales and other scales. Results The Cronbach’s alpha coefficients of the UWES‐9‐V and the Vigor, Absorption, and Dedication subscales were 0.93, 0.86, 0.77, and 0.90, respectively. ICC of the UWES‐9‐V in a subsample after 3 months was 0.48. Confirmatory factor analyses indicated an acceptable fit of both one‐factor and three‐factor structures, with the three‐factor model having the better fit. The UWES‐9‐V and its subscales correlated with depression, anxiety and stress, health‐related quality of life and health condition, job performance, and psychosocial work environment. Conclusions The study findings suggest that the UWES‐9‐V is a reliable and valid instrument to measure work engagement among hospital nurses in Vietnam, a low‐ and middle‐income country. Future studies should confirm the validity and reliability of the UWES‐9‐V among various occupations.
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- Thuy Thi Thu Tran
- Department of Occupational Health and Safety, Faculty of Environmental and Occupational Health, Hanoi University of Public Health, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Department of Mental Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Mental Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Faculty of Social Sciences - Behavior and Health Education, Hanoi University of Public Health, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Department of Mental Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Public Health, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Faculty of Social Sciences - Behavior and Health Education, Hanoi University of Public Health, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Nursing Office, Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Department of Occupational Health and Safety, Faculty of Environmental and Occupational Health, Hanoi University of Public Health, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Social Sciences - Behavior and Health Education, Hanoi University of Public Health, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic., Australia
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- Department of Public Health, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Japan
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- Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University, Fujisawa, Japan
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- Department of Mental Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Rodríguez-Fernández M, Herrera J, de las Heras-Rosas C. Model of Organizational Commitment Applied to Health Management Systems. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2021; 18:4496. [PMID: 33922667 PMCID: PMC8122969 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18094496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2021] [Revised: 04/15/2021] [Accepted: 04/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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In this paper, we try to build on the problems surrounding the management of human resources in health care organizations worldwide. After the analysis of the reviewed literature, we detected that the scientific community considers several recurring themes that need attention: stress, burnout, and turnover intention. Based on this, we developed a model of organizational commitment that aims to achieve performance and health quality, its main result the establishment of the appropriate management policies in order to avoid the abandonment of the organization through the search for commitment and job satisfaction. Amongst our main conclusions, we highlight the need to implement a human resources model for hospital administrators based on the relationships with "patients" not "clients" through the maintenance of a positive and strong atmosphere of staff participation. It is important to develop innovative practices related to clear job design that eliminate reasons for ambiguity and stress in executing the tasks of the healthcare system. Finally, we urge training programs in transformational leadership to promote the well-being and organizational commitment of employees.
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- Department of Economics and Business Administration, Universidad de Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain
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Sinval J, Aragão e Pina J, Sinval J, Marôco J, Santos CM, Uitdewilligen S, Maynard MT, Passos AM. Development of the Referee Shared Mental Models Measure (RSMMM). Front Psychol 2020; 11:550271. [PMID: 33192798 PMCID: PMC7641634 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.550271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2020] [Accepted: 08/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The concept of shared mental models refers to the shared understanding among team members about how they should behave in different situations. This article aimed to develop a new shared mental model measure, specifically designed for the refereeing context. A cross-sectional study was conducted with three samples: national and regional football referees (n = 133), national football referees and assistant referees and national futsal referees (n = 277), and national futsal referees (n = 60). The proposed version of the Referee Shared Mental Models Measure (RSMMM) has 13 items that are reflected on a single factor structure. The RSMMM presented good validity evidence both based on the internal structure and based on relations to other variables (presenting positive associations with team work engagement, team adaptive performance, and team effectiveness). Such promising psychometric properties point to an optimistic outlook regarding its use to measure shared mental models in futsal and football referee teams.
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- Jorge Sinval
- Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL), Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal
- William James Center for Research, ISPA – Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal
- Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
- Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Languages of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- ISCTE Business School (IBS), Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal
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- Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- William James Center for Research, ISPA – Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Organisation, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship, Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Management, College of Business, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
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- Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL), Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal
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Sinval J, Marôco J. Short Index of Job Satisfaction: Validity evidence from Portugal and Brazil. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0231474. [PMID: 32287284 PMCID: PMC7156096 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0231474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2019] [Accepted: 03/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Job satisfaction is an important construct that is known to be associated with workers' performance and wellbeing. As such, to properly measure it, one must use adapted measures that show adequate validity evidence for the desired context. Such measures should preferably be short to allow the parsimonious use of various measures/constructs in the same data collection. The aim of this paper is to adapt the Portuguese version for Brazil and Portugal of the Short Index of Job Satisfaction (SIJS). The SIJS is a psychometric instrument that measures job satisfaction through five items. A cross-sectional study was conducted with two multi-occupational workers samples, one from Brazil (n = 599) and one other from Portugal (n = 572). The SIJS presented good validity evidence based on its internal structure, namely dimensionality, reliability, and measurement invariance across countries and sexes. It also revealed to be positively correlated with work engagement, and quality of work life (convergent evidence). It also has shown to be negatively associated with burnout (discriminant evidence). The SIJS showed promising validity evidence. The SIJS can be useful to be used together with other instruments, due to its small number of items, producing data with good psychometric properties.
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- Jorge Sinval
- William James Center for Research, ISPA—Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal
- Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL), Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal
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- William James Center for Research, ISPA—Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal
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Rafiq M, Wu W, Chin T, Nasir M. The psychological mechanism linking employee work engagement and turnover intention: A moderated mediation study. Work 2019; 62:615-628. [PMID: 31104045 DOI: 10.3233/wor-192894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In the global economy, motivating people to engage and stay in their work is a challenge for organizations. Researchers are increasingly recognizing the need for promoting strong employee engagement in the workplace. OBJECTIVE This paper examines the effect of employee work engagement on turnover intention. The study focuses on the mediating role of trust that underpins the relationship between employee work engagement and turnover intention, and the moderating role of job embeddedness in influencing the effect of trust. METHOD Survey data were collected from 418 employees from private media organizations. Hierarchical regression analysis and moderated mediation analysis were employed to test the hypotheses. RESULTS The results indicate that trust mediates the relationship between employee work engagement and turnover intention. Job embeddedness moderates the strength of the mediated relationship between employee work engagement and turnover intention via trust, such that the mediated relationship is weaker under high job embeddedness than under low job embeddedness. CONCLUSION This paper described the relationships among the concepts of work engagement, job embeddedness, trust, and turnover intention from a novel direction. Theoretical and practical consequences of these findings are discussed.
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- Muhammad Rafiq
- School of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China
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- School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- School of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China
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- Faculty of Management, Virtual University of Pakistan, Punjab, Pakistan
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Rodrigues S, Sinval J, Queirós C, Marôco J, Kaiseler M. Transitioning from recruit to officer: An investigation of how stress appraisal and coping influence work engagement. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SELECTION AND ASSESSMENT 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/ijsa.12238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Susana Rodrigues
- Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers – Technology and Science (INESC TEC) Porto Portugal
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- Business Research Unit (BRU‐IUL)Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE‐IUL) Lisbon Portugal
- William James Center for Research, ISPA – Instituto Universitário Lisbon Portugal
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- Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences University of Porto Porto Portugal
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- William James Center for Research, ISPA – Instituto Universitário Lisbon Portugal
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- Institute for Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure Leeds Beckett University Leeds UK
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Cuesta M, Suárez-Álvarez J, Lozano LM, García-Cueto E, Muñiz J. Assessment of Eight Entrepreneurial Personality Dimensions: Validity Evidence of the BEPE Battery. Front Psychol 2018; 9:2352. [PMID: 30555379 PMCID: PMC6281960 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2018] [Accepted: 11/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Background: The study of entrepreneurial activity has undergone intense development in recent decades. Traditionally this topic has been addressed from three approaches: economic, sociological and psychological. In the study of enterprising personality, two fundamental perspectives stand out: the use of general personality traits, like the Big Five, and the use of more specific traits related to entrepreneurial spirit, such as self-efficacy, autonomy, innovation, optimism, and others. The objective of this study is to provide validity evidence for a new instrument for measuring eight specific dimensions of entrepreneurial personality (BEPE). Methods: The sample was composed of 1,170 adults from the general population (59.9% women). The average age was 42.34 years with a standard deviation of 12.96. Of the sample, 13% were self-employed. Internal factorial structure and reliability of BEPE were examined. The relationships with other variables and the discriminative capacity of the BEPE between different groups of workers were analyzed. Results: First order exploratory factor analyses show the essential unidimensionality of each of the eight proposed sub-scales, with factorial weights ranging between 0.341 and 0.825. In the Confirmatory Factor Analysis, the best fit was achieved with a Bifactor model. With regards to reliability, the eight BEPE sub-scales gave high alpha coefficient values, between 0.81 and 0.89, as did the total battery (0.97). BEPE sub-scales show a high canonical correlation with the Big Five personality factors (0.796) and with the sub-scales of the Measure of Entrepreneurial Talents and Abilities questionnaire (0.779). Conclusion: The BEPE questionnaire for the evaluation of the eight fundamental specific dimensions of the entrepreneurial personality presents adequate psychometric properties. Its relationships with other measures of personality traits are in line with what is expected. Therefore, the BEPE is a new measurement instrument that can be used with confidence both in the applied field and in research.
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- Marcelino Cuesta
- CIBERSAM, Department of Psychology, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Directorate for Education and Skills, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, France
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- Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center, Department of Methodology of Behavioral Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- CIBERSAM, Department of Psychology, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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Sinval J, Pasian S, Queirós C, Marôco J. Brazil-Portugal Transcultural Adaptation of the UWES-9: Internal Consistency, Dimensionality, and Measurement Invariance. Front Psychol 2018; 9:353. [PMID: 29618995 PMCID: PMC5872586 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2018] [Accepted: 03/02/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The aim of this paper is to present a revision of international versions of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale and to describe the psychometric properties of a Portuguese version of the UWES-9 developed simultaneously for Brazil and Portugal, the validity evidence related with the internal structure, namely, Dimensionality, measurement invariance between Brazil and Portugal, and Reliability of the scores. This is the first UWES version developed simultaneously for both countries, and it is an important instrument for understanding employees' work engagement in the organizations, allowing human resources departments to better use workforces, especially when they are migrants. A total of 524 Brazilian workers and 522 Portuguese workers participated in the study. Confirmatory Factor Analysis, group comparisons, and Reliability estimates were used. The use of workers who were primarily professionals or administrative support, according to ISCO-08, reinforced the need to collect data on other professional occupations. Confirmatory factor analysis showed acceptable fit for the UWES-9 original three-factor solution, and a second-order factor structure has been proposed that presented an acceptable fit. Full-scale invariance was obtained between the Portuguese and Brazilian samples, both for the original three-factor first-order and second-order models. Data revealed that Portuguese and Brazilian workers didn't show statistically significant differences in the work engagement dimensions. This version allows for direct comparisons of means and, consequently, for performance of comparative and cross-cultural studies between these two countries.
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- Jorge Sinval
- Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- William James Centre for Research, ISPA-Instituto Universitário, Lisboa, Portugal
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