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Smartphone-based interventions for employees’ well-being promotion: a systematic review
Full text linkOccupational Psychology faces challenges concerning the promotion of employees’ well-being and health. The use of emergent technologies (e.g. smart-phone) has revealed new opportunities to deliver effective, cheap and early interventions. By following the international PRISMA statement guidelines, this systematic review aims to bring together workplace smartphone-based interventions, targeting employees’ well-being and psycho-physical health, to address the lack of studies focused on workplace settings. Results were drawn from 31 quantitative and qualitative studies, testing smartphone applications. The authors extracted multiple information for each article: focus, target, theoretical background, users’ engagement and study design. Findings show the lack of theoretical background, reliable study design and the prevalence of physical health interventions. Moreover, our review identifies the importance of users’ engagement for an intervention’s effectiveness. It is relevant to design specific mHealth interventions, to provide employees with the skills to cope with and manage work-stress and enhance their general health and well-being
Depersonalization or Cynicism, Efficacy or Inefficacy: What are the Dimensions of Teacher Burnout?
No full textThe aims of the present study were: (1) to investigate the role of efficacy beliefs using negatively worded inefficacy items instead of positive ones; (2) to establish whether depersonalization and cynism can be considered two different dimensions of the teacher burnout syndrome. Our results showed that compared with efficacy beliefs inefficacy beliefs relate more strongly to the other burnout dimensions. Moreover, using partial disaggregation method, we found a better fit for the four-factor model with separate depersonalization and cynism dimensions, than for the three-factor model in which depersonalization and cynism were collapsed into one factor.
It is concluded that future research on teacher burnout should use the inefficacy scale as the “third dimension” of burnout, rather than efficacy, and include the cynism and depersonalization constructs
Gli orientamenti motivazionali nello sport: un contributo italiano alla validazione del TEOSQ e del PMCSQ-2
No full textThe aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of italian version of two relevant inventories of the Achievement Goal Theory in sport: the 13-item version of the Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire (Duda & Nicholls, 1992) and the 29-item version of the Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire (Newton & Duda, 1993).
Data was collected among 487 athletes (76% males), drawn from a range of different sports, aged 13 to 33 years (mean 16.90 and s.d.3.65), which mainly compete at the regional level and that were contacted during an usual medical-sport examination.
Exploratory principal component analysis provided acceptable support for the two-dimension structure of the TEOSQ, as well as the internal consistency reliability. Acceptable results were also shown for the general scales of the PMCSQ-2, whereas some doubts remain for his specific scales. At present, this research go on with the involvement of other athletes of different competitive level, in training and competition context, to verify, by structural equations models, the links between these dimensions and their inventories
Engaged sì, workaholic no: il ruolo di engagement e workaholism sulla salute e il benessere dei Dirigenti Scolastici
No full textIl presente studio si è proposto di esaminare da un lato le differenze tra work engagement e workaholism nei termini delle loro associazioni con la salute e il benessere, nonché con aspetti della sfera relazionale e lavorativa; dall’altro la natura della relazione, sia di tipo lineare che non lineare, tra work engagement e workaholism. 208 Dirigenti Scolastici (65.9% donne) hanno compilato un questionario costituito da scale validate. I risultati del modello di equazioni strutturali confermano che il work engagement e il workaholism sono due costrutti distinti, le cui associazioni con il benessere sono differenti. Non è emersa invece alcuna relazione tra work engagement e workaholism, né di tipo lineare, né curvilineo
Introducing mobile apps to promote the well-being of German and Italian university students. A cross-national application of the Technology Acceptance Model
Full text linkStress represents a significant risk factor for several psychophysical diseases among college students, such as depression and anxiety, which may undermine their academic functioning, resulting in high drop rates from college. Nevertheless, university services for mental health promotion are typically underutilized. As a result, professionals and authorities strive to find new ways to address students' mental health needs. In this view, mobile apps seem appropriate for well-being promotion interventions. Drawing on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), which is the most widely used theory on users' intention to use technologies, we assumed that perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived ease of use (PEOU) would be positively related to intention to use (INT), and PEOU would be positively related to PU among both Italian and German university students. To test our hypotheses, we replicated the same cross-sectional study in Italy (n = 255) and Germany (n = 228) with university students. Although we found partial scalar invariance of the TAM dimensions across the two nations, our predictions were only partially confirmed: PEOU was positively related to PU in the Italian sample only. Overall, this study is one of the first empirical attempts to compare TAM cross-nationally within the European context and it contributes to the small but increasing body of research investigating students’ acceptance of smartphone-based interventions for stress management and well-being promotion. Understanding mobile health acceptance could help universities increase students’ chances of adopting the proposed services, considering the factors influencing this choice
Videoconference fatigue : validation of the Italian translated Zoom Exhaustion and Fatigue Scale (ZEFS)
Full text linkBackgroundThe global COVID-19 pandemic prompted widespread lockdowns as governments sought to contain the spread of the virus and minimize fatalities. Measures such as the stay-at-home orders imposed in Italy and the suspension of non-essential economic activities disrupted work and education worldwide. Telework, previously used by only one in five workers, gained prominence, albeit unevenly across countries. The surge in telework required the extensive use of video conferencing platforms. However, prolonged use of these platforms led to 'Zoom fatigue', characterized by mental fatigue and exhaustion.ObjectivesThe aim of this study is to validate the Zoom Exhaustion & Fatigue Scale (ZEFS) in its Italian version, examining its relationship with videoconferencing characteristics, and outcomes such as emotional exhaustion, sleep problems, and technostress.MethodThe study included a sample of 372 workers (50% female) who held video conferences at least once a week. They were asked to complete an online self-report questionnaire.ResultsThe results confirmed the original structure of the scale and identified a second-order factor and the five dimensions of Zoom fatigue, namely general fatigue, visual fatigue, social fatigue, emotional fatigue, and motivational fatigue. In addition, Zoom fatigue was positively correlated with sleep problems, emotional exhaustion, techno-stressors, frequency of video conferences and burstiness, and negatively correlated with attitudes toward video conferences, confirming the construct validity of the ZEFS.ConclusionsThe present study suggests that the Italian version of the ZEFS is a psychometrically sound measure for assessing Zoom fatigue in the Italian working population. The practical implications are discussed
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
Editorial: Current status of and future directions for assessing technology acceptance for digital (mental) health interventions
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Job Demands-Resources Model: uno strumento per la valutazione dei fattori di rischio nella scuola
No full textIn confronto con altre professioni, l’insegnamento è considerato un lavoro ad alto stress. Uno dei recenti modelli teorici inerenti stress e burnout è il modello Domande-Risorse Lavorative (JD-R). Lo scopo dello studio è testare il modello nel contesto scolastico italiano. 235 insegnanti hanno risposto a un questionario su risorse (influenza/partecipazione e sviluppo personale), domande lavorative (iniquità e conflitto lavoro-famiglia), benessere e comportamenti di cittadinanza organizzativa. I risultati delle analisi (mediante modelli di equazioni strutturali) mostrano che il burnout è un mediatore tra domande lavorative e benessere, mentre l’engagement è un mediatore tra risorse lavorative e comportamenti di cittadinanza organizzativa. Questo studio fornisce indicazioni per la valutazione dello stress lavoro-correlato e le relative strategie di intervento nella scuola
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