Social job resources as sources of meaningfulness and its effects on nurses’ vigor and emotional exhaustion: a cross-sectional study among spanish nurses
This study investigates the mediating role of psychological meaningfulness among social job resources (i.e., coworkers and supervisor support), vigor, and emotional ex haustion in a nursing context. In spite of progress in under standing which organizational influence affects nurses’ vigor and emoti...
| Autores: | , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/706390 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/706390 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-016-9463-x |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | job resources coworker support supervisor support meaningfulness vigor emotional exhaustion Psicología |
| Sumario: | This study investigates the mediating role of psychological meaningfulness among social job resources (i.e., coworkers and supervisor support), vigor, and emotional ex haustion in a nursing context. In spite of progress in under standing which organizational influence affects nurses’ vigor and emotional exhaustion, the psychological mechanisms as sumed to underlie the associations have not been fully ex plored. The sample for this study consisted of 171 nurses from Spanish hospitals (54.4 %) and Primary Care Centers (45.6 %). The mediation model was tested using the bootstrapping procedure. Our findings confirmed that psycho logical meaningfulness fully mediates the impact of social job resources on vigor at work. Moreover, psychological mean ingfulness partially mediated the impact of social job resources on emotional exhaustion. Results suggest that mean ingfulness plays an important role in the connection between job resources, vigor, and emotional exhaustion. The findings contribute to our understanding of the psychological processes that can explain how job resources contribute to the energetic aspect of burnout and engagement among nurses. Providing nurses with more social job resources, such as coworker and supervisor support, could activate their levels of personal meaningfulness and thus enhance their levels of well-being at work |
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