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Future directions in the research on unemployment: protean career orientation and perceived employability against social disadvantage
Full text linkLa transizione al pensionamento: preparazione e adattamento a una nuova fase della vita
No full textIl pensionamento rappresenta una transizione psicosociale che caratterizza l’esperienza di vita di molte persone. Sebbene si tratti di un evento normativo, il processo e l’adattamento al pensionamento appaiono eterogenei. Lo scopo del presente studio è di esaminare alcune variabili che possono potenzialmente influenzare l’adattamento al pensionamento, ossia la centralità del lavoro e la volontarietà. Un questionario è stato somministrato a 127 pensionati di età compresa tra i 52 e i 73 anni. I risultati mostrano che la volontarietà della scelta è legata nei pensionati alla soddisfazione di vita e alla progettualità. La volontarietà nella scelta ha inoltre un effetto moderatore tra la centralità del lavoro e l’adattamento al pensionamento. Questi risultati suggeriscono l’importanza del counseling ai fini del retirement plannin
The role of group identification, self- and collective efficacy on secondary traumatic stress and general health in a sample of emergency medical service volunteers
Full text linkThis paper reports the results of a web-based survey on the relationship between group identification, secondary traumatic stress, and psychological distress in a sample of Italian emergency medical service volunteers. The theoretical foundation of this research was based on the social cure approach that suggests that group identification can increase people's wellbeing by enhancing the sense of social support and mastery. Responses from 1214 volunteers (50% men) were collected and structural equation modeling was performed to assess direct and indirect effect of group identification on both secondary traumatic stress and psychological distress. Results supported expectations, and indicated that group identification was associated with decreased secondary traumatic stress and psychological distress: this relation was both direct and mediated by self-efficacy and collective efficacy. Self-efficacy and collective efficacy completely mediated the relationship between group identification and secondary traumatic stress, while mediation was partial for the relationship between group identification and psychological distress. Moreover, our findings revealed that collective efficacy had a higher impact on psychological distress than on secondary traumatic stress. Self-efficacy, instead, had a significant negative effect on both secondary traumatic stress and psychological distress. Finally, secondary traumatic stress had a strong relationship with psychological distress. The practical implications for volunteers' wellbeing and volunteer association are discussed in view of the need to improve collective positive resources
L’impatto dell’empowering leadership infermieristica sulla soddisfazione dell’équipe dei professionisti Uno studio in due organizzazioni ospedaliere
No full textPer le organizzazioni sanitarie, soprattutto dopo l’emergenza legata al Covid-19, è diventato centrale il tema del benessere e dei fattori che possono essere protettivi per la salute dei professionisti. In particolare, gli studi evidenziano che l’empowering leadership (EL), basata sulla partecipazione ai processi decisionali e su azioni di coaching verso obiettivi percepiti come condivisi, influenza positivamente la soddisfazione lavorativa e il commitment prevenendo sindromi da stress cronico come il burnout.
L’obiettivo del presente lavoro era esaminare l’impatto dell’empowering leadership sulla soddisfazione, sia diretto sia mediato dal commitment e dalla prevenzione del burnout. Sono stati coinvolti 256 professionisti sanitari di due organizzazioni ospedaliere a cui è stato somministrato un questionario online che misurava l’empowering leadership (ELQ), l’organizational commitment (OC) e il burnout (MBI). I risultati mostrano una relazione positiva significativa fra empowering leadership e soddisfazione e, in particolare, la dimensione di coaching mostra una relazione più forte con gli esiti positivi. Inoltre, il commitment affettivo e la riduzione del burnout hanno un ruolo mediatore tra EL e soddisfazione. Risulta necessario fare riflessioni sui cambiamenti che hanno caratterizzato il ruolo della leadership infermieristica, sempre più focalizzata sullo sviluppo delle risorse umane, e potrebbe essere utile progettare percorsi formativi che favoriscano competenze relative alle strategie che caratterizzano un comportamento empowering
Emotion regulation and employability: The mediational role of ambition and a protean career among unemployed people
Full text linkLiterature on job searching suggests that emotion regulation has an impact on employability, but this relationship is far from being explained; furthermore, most of the studies have been conducted among students or workers. The aim of the current study was to investigate the relationship between emotion regulation and employability among unemployed people, analyzing the role of ambition and protean career orientation as possible factors in such a relationship. Participants were 228 unemployed subjects who had requested individual counselling for job searching; data were collected by means of a self-report questionnaire. Results confirmed that emotion regulation is related to employability, both through a direct relationship and through an indirect effect of ambition and protean career orientation
The Determinants of Teachers' Well-being: The Mediating Role of Mental Fatigue
No full textIn recent years, many studies have focused on the determinants and consequences of teacher stress. One of the most recent theoretical models concerning stress is the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model. This study examines one process – namely the energetic process – which supposes that high job demands exhaust employees’ mental and physical resources and therefore cause ill health. Particularly, this study examines the mediating role of mental fatigue between three job demands of teachers (workload, inequity and work/family conflict) and three consequences of stress: psychological and physical symptoms and work satisfaction. An Italian version of the self-report Questionnaire for Psychosocial Work Environment and Stress (PWSQ) was administered to 697 teachers belonging to a random sample of 17 school organizations. The results showed that mental fatigue has a mediating role in the relationship between work-family conflict and the three outcomes considered, namely psychological and physical symptoms, and work satisfaction. This study has an important implication for intervention strategy because mental fatigue is a pre-strain condition which arises before more intense outcomes, such as stress-related diseases occur. Identification of this condition allows prevention of the consequences of stress
Sicurezza nella navigazione: il ruolo del fattore umano
No full textThe main aim of this paper is to examine the role of human factors in the safety of ship transport (shipping).
Particularly, we analyzed the personal, psychosocial and organizational factor that intervene in this context and the consequences on the safety performance and workers’ well-being.
In this review, some shipping accidents and their causes are presented and particular attention will be paid to human error, fatigue and stress, non-technical skills and perception of safety. In the final part of the paper the safety performance and its antecedents in the context of shipping will be extensively examined
Safety in shipping: The role of the human factor
No full textThe main aim of this paper is to examine the role of human factors in the safety of ship transport (shipping). Particularly, we analyzed the personal, psychosocial and organizational factor that intervene in this context and the consequences on the safety performance and workers' well-being. In this review, some shipping accidents and their causes are presented and a particular attention will be paid to human error, fatigue and stress, non-technical skills and perception of safety. In the final part of the paper the safety performance and its antecedents in the context of shipping will be extensively examined
Group identification and self-efficacy associated with quality of life in emergency medical services volunteers: A cross-sectional investigation
Full text linkVolunteering in emergency medical services (EMS) plays a fundamental role in the improvement and maintenance of collective and community health. However, this work often requires rescuers to deal with very stressful situations with consequences in terms of decreased quality of life and psychological well-being. The aim of this work was to analyze the resources that can be positively associated with volunteers’ quality of life. In particular, based on social identity and social cure approaches, we tested the effect of self-efficacy and identification with a volunteer category on both positive and negative aspects of the volunteers’ professional quality of life. A self-report questionnaire was administered to 203 EMS volunteers (53.7% men) from a large nonprofit volunteer association. Results are mostly supportive of predictions from the social identity (and specifically the “social cure”) approach, and show that professional identification and self-efficacy were differently linked to the dimensions of the volunteers’ quality of life. More precisely, professional identification was negatively associated with burnout and positively associated with compassion satisfaction, and both effects were mediated by self-efficacy. On the contrary, self-efficacy and volunteer identification were not associated with secondary traumatic stress. Practical implications for volunteers’ wellbeing are discussed in the light of the policies of volunteer associations to improve collective resources
Teachers’ Well-Being And Effectiveness: The Role Of The Interplay Between Job Demands And Job Resources
Full text linkRecently the literature has started to examine how the combination of stressful and motivating job characteristics influences
teachers’ well-being. In particular, the aim of the present study was to investigate the interplay between job demands and job
resources, by using the framework of the Job Demands-Resources Model. A questionnaire was administered to 439 Italian
teachers working in secondary schools. The cluster analysis showed three groups of teachers, named as Resourceful, Stressed and
Wealthy, who differ significantly in all considered work outcomes. Our results confirm the value of job resources as a core aspect
that stimulates personal growth and allows teachers to achieve work goals regardless of the level of job demands
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