661 research outputs found
Bridge employment: Lessons learned and future prospects for research and practice
No full textSuggestions for future research and implications for practice are discussed, based on the national state-of-the-art chapter
Core self-evaluations affecting retirement-related outcomes
No full textThis study addressed a gap in the literature by examining the role of core self-evaluations as a predictor of retirement preparation (i.e., attitudes, expectations, and goals), compared to other important aspects such as demographic, financial, health, and work-related variables. Based on the resource-based dynamic model for retirement adjustment and the core self-evaluations theory, the present study showed that core self-evaluations significantly and positively affected the social component of retirement adjustment (H1), the retirement expectations of new beginning (H2), the retirement expectations of continuity (H3), and retirement goals (H4). Additionally, core-self evaluations negatively affected the retirement expectations of imposed disruption (H5). All the analyses were controlled for age, gender, perceived health, financial situation, job centrality, and expected retirement age. In conclusion, core self-evaluations are valuable and supportive to workers across the work lifespan, and for dealing with the retirement preparation
Hard enough to manage my emotions: How hardiness moderates the relationship between emotional demands and exhaustion
No full textThe frequency of conflicts with patients’ families is one of the main contributors to the amount of emotional demands that healthcare professionals must tackle to prevent the occurrence of burnout symptoms. On the other hand, research evidence suggests that hardiness could enable healthcare professionals to handle their responsibilities and problems effectively. Based on the health impairment process of the Job Demands–Resources model, the main goal of this study was to delve deeper into the relationship between conflict with patients’ families, emotional demands, and exhaustion, as well as to test the buffering role of hardiness. Data were collected from a sample of N = 295 healthcare professionals working in a private hospital in Northern Italy. Most of them were women (78.6%) with a mean age of 40.62 years (SD = 9.50). The mediation of emotional demands within the association between conflict with families and emotional exhaustion and the moderating role of hardiness was tested using a bootstrapping approach. In the current sample, emotional demands mediated the association between conflict with families and exhaustion among healthcare professionals. Moreover, this relationship decreased among individuals with higher levels of hardiness. These findings contribute to the current understanding of the negative impact played by conflict with families on healthcare professionals’ psychological well-being. Furthermore, they corroborated the role of hardiness as a personal resource that could prevent the occurrence of burnout symptoms. In addition to manage—and decrease—episodes of conflict with patients and their families, organizations in the healthcare sector should develop interventions aimed at fostering employees’ hardiness and, consequently, tackle job demands ingrained in their profession (i.e., emotional demands)
Motivations for volunteerism, satisfaction, and emotional exhaustion: The moderating effect of volunteers' age
No full textThis investigation aims to explore the moderating role of volunteers' age in the relation between motivations for volunteering and, respectively, satisfaction with volunteerism and emotional exhaustion. A longitudinal study was conducted with a sample of 241 Spanish healthcare volunteers. Results show that volunteers' age moderates the relations between social motivations and satisfaction, and social motivations and volunteers' emotional exhaustion, and also between growth motivations and satisfaction, and volunteers' emotional exhaustion. The relationships between security motivations and satisfaction and emotional exhaustion are not moderated by age. Our findings underline that, for younger volunteers, satisfaction decreases when social motives are high, rather than low, and, in the opposite, emotional exhaustion increases when growth motives are high, rather than low. For older volunteers, instead, the only significant effect concern satisfaction, which is higher when social motives are high, rather than low
Sforzo, ricompensa e rottura del contratto psicologico: il ruolo del coinvolgimento lavorativo
No full textDiversi studi hanno mostrato interesse verso la comprensione delle variabili responsa-bili del contratto psicologico. Il presente contributo intende verificare gli effetti che le variabili considerate dal modello dell’Effort-Reward Imbalance (Siegrist, 1996) quali responsabili dello stress hanno sulla rottura del contratto psicologico. Lo studio è stato condotto su 300 lavoratori spagnoli. I risultati mostrano che lo sforzo, la ricompensa e la mancanza di equilibrio tra queste due elementi (E-RI) influenzano la rottura del con-tratto psicologico. Viene infine riscontrato il ruolo moderatore dell’overcommitment fra lo sforzo, l’E-RI e la percezione di rottura del contratto psicologico
Optimal pole shape design for the reduction of cogging torque of a SRM motor using the simulated annealing method
No full textJob crafting as a mediator between work engagement and wellbeing outcomes: A time-lagged study
No full textThis time-lagged study, using the framework of the JD-R model, tested the mediating role of job crafting measuring: at T1, work engagement, workaholism and emotional exhaustion; at T2, job crafting; and, at T3, flourishing, job performance and job satisfaction. Respondents were 443 Spanish employees working in different companies. Results show that job crafting mediates the relationship between work engagement and some of its outcomes (job performance and flourishing). In particular, the job crafting component ‘increasing structural job resources’ mediates the positive effect of work engagement on flourishing and job performance, and the job crafting component ‘increasing challenging demands’ mediates the positive effect of work engagement on job performance. No job crafting mediation is found between work engagement and job satisfaction
Optimal pole shape design for the reduction of cogging torque of a SRM motor using the simulated annealing method
No full textInference on Probabilistic Surveys in Macroeconomics with an Application to the Evolution of Uncertainty in the Survey of Professional Forecasters during the COVID Pandemic
No full textProbabilistic surveys on macroeconomic variables provide a wealth of information to the applied researcher. Extracting and using this information is not a trivial task, however. This chapter discusses the challenges involved in this task and the approaches used so far in the literature for conducting inference on probabilistic surveys. It also provides an application of some of these methods using the U.S. Survey of Professional Forecasters and investigates the evolution of uncertainty and tail risk for both output growth and inflation during the COVID pandemic
Bridge employment quality and its impact on retirement adjustment: A structural equation model with SHARE panel data
No full textBridge employment refers to the workforce participation pattern displayed by older workers between their partial retirement and their complete withdrawal from the workforce. Based on Shultz’s (2003) model of antecedents and consequences of bridge employment, this article proposes a set of hypotheses, using SHARE panel data (N = 634) from Wave 1 (2004) and Wave 2 (2006). These data are analyzed via structural equation modeling (SEM), testing both a direct effects model and a partial mediation model. Results show that bridge employment quality partially mediates the influences of T1 antecedents on T2 consequences. The implications of this study are discussed at both the theoretical and practical level
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