Psychological flow and mental immunity as predictors of job performance for mental health care practitioners during COVID-19.

Autor: Al Eid NA; Department of Islamic Studies, College of Hummanities and Social Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., Arnout BA; Department of Psychology, College of Education, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia.; Department of Psychology, College of Arts, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt., Al-Qahtani TA; Department of Learning and Instructor, College of Education, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia., Farhan ND; College of Islamic Sciences, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq., Al Madawi AM; Department of Educational Leadership and Policies, College of Education King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2024 Nov 01; Vol. 19 (11), pp. e0311909. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Nov 01 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0311909
Abstrakt: Background: Numerous studies indicated that workers in the health sector suffer from work stress, hassles, and mental health problems associated with COVID-19, which negatively affect the completion of their job tasks. These studies pointed out the need to search for mechanisms that enable workers to cope with job stress effectively.
Objectives: This study investigated psychological flow, mental immunity, and job performance levels among the mental health workforce in Saudi Arabia. It also tried to reveal the psychological flow (PF) and mental immunity (MI) predictability of job performance (JP).
Method: A correlational survey design was employed. The study sample consisted of 120 mental health care practitioners (therapists, psychologists, counselors)who lived in Saudi Arabia. Sixty-four were men, 56 were women, and their ages ranged between 27 and 48 (36.32±6.43). The researchers developed three measurements of psychological flow, mental immunity, and job performance. After testing their validity and reliability, these measures were applied to the study participants.
Results: The results found median levels of psychological flow, mental immunity, and job performance among mental health care practitioners. Also, the results revealed that psychological flow and mental immunity were statistically significant predictors of job performance. The psychological flow variable contributed (38.70%) and mental immunity (54.80%) to the variance in job performance of mental health care practitioners.
Conclusion: The current study indicated that psychological flow and mental immunity significantly influenced the job performance of mental health care practitioners. These findings pointed out that human resource management in mental health care institutions in Saudi Arabia must search for procedures that achieve a state of flow and mental immunity for workers to make their jobs more meaningful. Also, these findings indicated the importance of planning interventions to enhance mental health care practitioners' psychological flow, mental immunity, and job performance to help them cope with work stress effectively and protect them from symptoms of burnout.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2024 Al Eid et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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