Subjective Happiness and Compassion Are Enough to Increase Teachers' Work Engagement?

Autor:	De Stasio S; Department of Human Sciences, Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta, Rome, Italy., Fiorilli C; Department of Human Sciences, Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta, Rome, Italy., Benevene P; Department of Human Sciences, Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta, Rome, Italy., Boldrini F; Department of Human Sciences, Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta, Rome, Italy., Ragni B; Department of Human Sciences, Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta, Rome, Italy., Pepe A; Department of Human Studies University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy., Maldonado Briegas JJ; Department of Business Management and Sociology, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in psychology [Front Psychol] 2019 Oct 17; Vol. 10, pp. 2268. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Oct 17 (Print Publication: 2019).
DOI:	10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02268
Abstrakt:	The present quantitative multi-trait cross-sectional study aims to gain a better understanding of the network of relationship between subjective happiness, compassion, levels of work engagement, and proactive strategies (self- and co-regulation) in a sample of teachers. Participants were 187 full-time in-service teachers (89% female; age M = 48.5; SD = 7.88) from Rome, Italy. We hypothesized that subjective happiness and compassion of early childhood teachers would be related with work engagement in such a way that subjective happiness would promote the engagement of teachers. In a similar fashion, we theorized that subjective happiness would be positively related to self- and co-regulation strategies and that proactive strategies would be in turn associated to work engagement. As expected, the results revealed that subjective happiness and compassion showed effects on work engagement and that this association among constructs was mediated by the role of proactive strategies (β = 0.22, p < 0.001; β = 0.37, p < 0.001, respectively). Proactive strategies also have a significant direct effect on work engagement (β = 0.56, p < 0.001). The study's findings suggest the importance of investing in the quality of the working environment. (Copyright © 2019 De Stasio, Fiorilli, Benevene, Boldrini, Ragni, Pepe and Maldonado Briegas.)
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