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A Time-Lagged Examination of the Greenhaus and Allen Work-Family Balance Model
No full textThe work-family interface is a compelling topic that calls into question labor market
dynamics and work processes, together with important social and family composition changes.
The present study aimed at examining the antecedents of Work-Family Balance (WFB) in Italy
consistent with Greenhaus and Allen’s (2011) conceptual model in which the characteristics of work
and family roles have an indirect impact on work-family balance through Work-Family Conflict
(WFC) and Work-Family Enrichment (WFE), and where job and family satisfaction are considered as
predictors of WFB. A total of 568 workers participated in a time-lagged correlational study, filling a
questionnaire. The theoretical model was tested by assessing the mediating role of job and family
satisfaction as well as related antecedents, conflict, and enrichment between the family and work
contexts, through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results partially confirmed the theoretical
model: work-to-family enrichment and work-to-family conflict predicted family satisfaction, which
also mediated their association with WFB. The results in the family-to-work direction did not support
the initial research hypotheses. The hypotheses about associations between demands and resources,
conflict and enrichment in both directions, and of the moderating role of core self-evaluations were
partially confirmed. The results highlighted that organizations need to carry out periodic assessments
of WFC and WFE, in order to provide benefits and resources, to reduce conflict, and increase
enrichment, through proper interventions (training activities, professional development, mentoring,
and forms of flexibility)
How are empowering leadership, self-efficacy and innovative behavior related to nurses' agency in distributed leadership in Denmark, Italy and Israel?
No full textAim: The purpose of the study was to introduce the concept of distributed leadership to international nursing management by conducting a cross-national investigation of its relationships with empowering nursing leadership, nurses' work self-efficacy and nurses' innovative behaviour. Background: Distributed leadership theory suggests that when more people lead processes together, innovation will be superior to solo leadership. However, we need knowledge about how nurse managers may enhance nurses' distributed leadership agency (DLA), and whether such results are generalizable across countries. Method: The cross-national survey with an overall purposeful sampling method used questionnaire data from hospital nurses from Israel (n = 239), Italy (n = 226) and Denmark (n = 709). We used validated scales measuring Empowering Leadership, Self-efficacy, Innovative Work Behavior and DLA. Results: The results from all three countries showed that empowering leadership and work self-efficacy were positively related to DLA, which, in turn, was also related to more innovation. Conclusion: The results may imply that nursing managers can increase workplace innovativeness by adopting an empowering leadership style that supports nurses' self-efficacy and distributes leadership tasks. Implications for Nursing Management: The cross-country robustness of the results may encourage further research in distributed leadership in nurse management, notably with a focus on causal mechanisms
Customer satisfaction in a public service of work medicine for harassed workers
No full textDeep changes in labor market, re-engineering of organizations and the considerable growing of dysfunctional relations at work, have severe consequences in workers' health. Many public services of work medicine had recently born offering clinical assistance, evaluations, certifications and counseling. In order to adjust the quality and the efficiency of services for harassed workers, an exploratory research in customer satisfaction was run. 66 workers who had been helped by a public service of work medicine were interviewed filling up a questionnaire made of 14 items. Results had shown that there are many difficulties in access these services: workers are sent mostly by lawyers and others clinical specialist, when their job situation or their mental health are compromised. Workers access these services especially to obtain certifications that can be later utilized in law controversy or in illness evaluation. The most useful aspect for customers is the possibility to have assistance and councils deciding how to front the situation, while satisfaction is strictly linked to the ability of the service to answer to customers' need of sustain. Results underline that an improvement of efficacy would be reached with prolonged assistance and a local distribution on the territory
Job demands and negative outcomes after the lockdown: The moderating role of stigma towards italian supermarket workers
Full text linkThe Job Demands-Resources model hypothesises that some variables (especially personal and social resources/threats) moderate the relationship between job demands and work outcomes. Based on this model, in this study we examine the role of stigma towards customers as a moderator of the relationship between job demands and a series of work outcomes: that is, fatigue, burnout, and satisfaction. We advance that the relationships between work demands and outcomes should be influenced by the employee’s perceptions regarding resources and constraint. In particular, we hypothesised that social stigma towards customers can represent a reliable moderating variable. Hypotheses were tested among 308 Italian supermarket workers in five supermarkets in the same chain, just after the end of the Italian lockdown caused by COVID-19. Results showed that stigma towards customers moderates the relationship between job demands and the consequences on the professional quality of life. The implications of these findings for the JD-R model are discussed
What prompts doctors to recommend covid-19 vaccines: Is it a question of positive emotion?
No full textVaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective public health tools and have greatly contributed to eliminating or controlling several serious vaccine-treatable diseases over the past century. To curb the spread of COVID-19, efficacious vaccination is emerging as essential in mitigating the disease and preventing deaths. Health care workers (HCW) are one of the first groups to receive vaccinations, so it is important to consider their attitudes to COVID-19 vaccination to better address barriers to widespread vaccination acceptance. This study aimed to evaluate variables that are linked with the recommendation of vaccines and intention to take-up vaccination against COVID-19 among the HCWs, in the context of the current pandemic. The study was conducted during the first week of the vaccination campaign dedicated to Italian HCWs, beginning in December 2020, and it involved all doctors in a public hospital in Sicily. The following questionnaires were administered: (1) The perceived vaccine trust questionnaire, measuring the degree of trust in vaccines by healthcare professionals both in general and for the protection of healthcare professionals themselves and patients, (2) the positive and negative affect scale-state (PANAS), for assessing positive and negative emotions in relation to their work as “frontline care providers”, (3) The locus of control of behaviour (LCB) to measure the extent to which subjects perceive responsibility for their personal behaviour (internal vs. external), (4) recommendation vaccines item, referring to the intention to recommend vaccination. The findings suggest that socio-demographic control variables (age, gender, and seniority) showed little or no predictive power in vaccine recommendation, while vaccine confidence, positive emotions, and internal locus of control were excellent predictors of vaccine recommendations by doctors. Younger doctors, both in age and experience, are more confident in vaccines and recommend them more frequently. It is essential to improve institutional communication addressed to doctors to enhance their role as vaccination facilitators
The Association of Job and Family Resources and Demands with Life Satisfaction through Work–Family Balance: A Longitudinal Study among Italian Schoolteachers during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Full text linkThe Role of Perceived Restorative Quality of the Environment in the Academic Context in Improving Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation, and Flow
No full textMeasuring learning environment perceptions: Validation of the Italian version of the Approach to Study Inventory and the Student Course Experience Questionnaire
No full textThe aim of this study was to adapt to the Italian context and validate two instruments used to investigate
learning environment perceptions and approaches to study: the Student Course Experience Questionnaire
(SCEQ), and the Approaches to Study Inventory (ASI). A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA)
and a cross-validation for both instruments were conducted over a sample of 622 students belonging to
different faculties of an Italian university. In the original version (30 items), the Student Course
Experience Questionnaire did not provide satisfactory results. The CFA of the 23 items of the SCEQ
version and the 12 items of the ASI showed that they are reliable measures of the respective constructs.
CFA of the SCEQ and of the ASI showed acceptable fit indices. Although in need of further
improvement, these instruments can be useful in the Italian academic context
Straining, lavoro e tratti di personalità. Uno studio pilota in una azienda ospedaliera
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