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Alejandro Orgambídez

Alejandro Orgambídez
University of Malaga | UMA · Department of Social Psychology, Social Anthropology, Social Work and Social Services

PhD

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December 2011 - May 2016
University of Algarve
Position
  • Researcher
September 2009 - October 2016
University of Algarve
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  • Professor (Assistant)
October 2004 - January 2015
University of Huelva
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  • Professor (Assistant)

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Publications (98)
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Background/Objectives: Moral distress is commonly experienced by healthcare professionals (i.e., nurses) as ethical conflict. Previous literature suggests that moral distress contributes to emotional exhaustion in these professionals. We aimed to synthesize and analyze studies that examined the relationship between moral distress and emotional exha...
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Aim This systematic review and meta‐analysis aimed to analyze studies that examined the relationship between psychological capital and burnout in registered nurses. Background and introduction Registered nurses are subject to high rates of burnout, with negative consequences on health, well‐being, and quality of care. Psychological capital could b...
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A person can experience cyberbullying at work when exposed to repetitive and intrusive negative acts facilitated by new information and communication technologies (ICTs). The incidence of workplace cyberbullying has rapidly increased following the COVID-19 pandemic. This issue does not arise in isolation; leadership plays a critical role. Leaders w...
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Introduction This study explores how empowering human resource management (HRM) practices based on structural empowerment (access to opportunities, resources, support, and information) affect both personal initiative and job satisfaction of service employees through individual‐level factors (psychological empowerment). Methods We conducted a cross...
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Introduction. The outbreak of COVID-19 has led to various challenges for healthcare workers, including nurses. Nurses play a critical role in the fight against this disease, and their communication of self-efficacy and job satisfaction has garnered significant attention. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between communication self-ef...
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El estudio de las variables psicosociales positivas se presenta como un ámbito de creciente interés, especialmente en el ámbito social, ya que podrían ser relevantes a la hora de comprender el desempeño de estos/as trabajadores/as en contextos laborales donde muchas veces se presentan factores psicosociales desfavorables que pueden afectar negativa...
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This study examined the relationship between structural empowerment and affective commitment, mediated by work engagement, in frontline social workers in Spain. Based on two samples (240 participants from public agencies and 226 participants from private agencies) and using linear regression models (bootstrapping method), our results showed two eff...
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Research about harmonious passion as a personal resource that can have a protective effect in situations of stress and burnout is scarce but growing. Considering the job demands-resources (JD-R) model, the present study aims to address the above gaps by exploring the moderating role of harmonious passion at work in the relationship between burnout...
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While the importance of teacher job satisfaction is well documented, the processes and mechanisms by which educational institutions manage to influence the satisfactions of their members are not. Studies on the organizational elements associated with satisfaction have focused on isolated factors without the common umbrella of a consolidated theoret...
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Aim: This study aimed to analyze the mediator effect of role ambiguity between social support from supervisor and colleagues and job satisfaction in Portuguese nursing staff. Background: Few studies have analyzed the processes through which social support increases job satisfaction in the nursing context. Design: A cross-sectional design using...
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Las tasas de prevalencia del estrés laboral señalan que las personas que trabajan en elsector salud son las de mayor riesgo de exposición, destacando dos factores precursores: (1) Lafalta de control sobre el ritmo de trabajo y (2) La carga emocional derivada de la interaccióncon las personas destinatarias de su trabajo. La exposición a estos factor...
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Based on Kanter’s model of power, this research aimed to study burnout as a mediator of the association between structural empowerment and job satisfaction in Spanish social service workers. Data from 177 workers from public centers (sample 1) and 179 workers from private centers (sample 2) were analyzed using path analysis and bootstrapping. Struc...
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Social dynamics at work are crucial for understanding how internal processes in an organization are related to their performance and productivity. Following the Service-Profit Chain (SPC) theory, this study analyses, at the work-unit level, how interpersonal conflicts are related to service quality in the hospitality and tourism industry through th...
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Los trabajadores sociales tienen unas elevadas exigencias laborales como consecuencia, entre otros factores, de la excesiva burocratización de las organizaciones de servicios sociales. Ante esta realidad, durante su proceso formativo, los estudiantes de trabajo social deben desarrollar competencias emocionales para hacer frente a estas demandas pro...
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This study aimed to explore the moderating effect of role ambiguity and role conflict on the relationship between work engagement and affective organisational commitment. Using convenience sampling, a final sample of 179 IT‐specialists of services companies in southern Spain was obtained. Moderation analyses were performed using the hierarchical re...
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This article analyzes the characteristics of psychosocial factors that affect social service professionals in their workplaces. Engagement, passion for work, organizational commitment, structural empowerment and burnout are examined, factors that, according to the literature, are closely related to outcomes for social services professionals. These...
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La felicidad subjetiva es uno de los indicadores de la calidad de vida laboral más importantes en Trabajo Social, que depende del desarrollo de la inteligencia emocional. El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar la relación entre inteligencia emocional (atención, claridad y reparación emocional) y felicidad subjetiva en una muestra de 187 estudiant...
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Background Role stress (ambiguity and conflict) is a major psychosocial risk at work negatively associated with job satisfaction in the nursing context. According to Kanter's empowerment theory, high levels of structural empowerment reduce role stress, so role ambiguity and conflict could be potential mediators of the relationship between empowerme...
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Aim: To analyse the moderating effect of role clarity on the relationship between social support (supervisor and colleagues) and job satisfaction. Background: The social support of supervisors and co-workers and the clarity of roles are important antecedents of job satisfaction. According to the Conservation of Resources theory, the interaction of...
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Aim: According to the health organization model: 1) social resources in the working group (e.g. social support) and structural resources for the execution of tasks (e.g. autonomy) are correlated with 2) healthy, active professionals experiencing high levels of psychosocial well-being through job satisfaction. This study examines to what extent soci...
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Drawing upon Job Demands‐Resources (JD‐R) theory, most research on hindrance demands has focused on the antecedent role of work engagement. However, no studies have analysed the potential effects of hindrance demands as moderators in the engagement‐job satisfaction link. The objective of this study was to examine the moderator effect of role stress...
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The aim of this study was to explore the effect of work engagement, as an intermediary variable, on the relationship between self-efficacy, and job satisfaction and affective organizational commitment as individual indicators of quality of working life (QWL). A cross-sectional correlational design was utilized assessing a convenience sample of 321...
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Although there seems to be a high consensus in the study of welfare and occupational health in social workers, there are very few studies conducted from the new positive perspective of the psychology of occupational health. From this perspective, engagement appears as a key concept in the welfare and motivation of these workers. In this sense, the...
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The everyday contact with people from different nationalities is nowadays a reality. Cultural Intelligence and Multicultural Personality are individual competencies that are becoming important to deal with this reality. In this study, with 313 Portuguese participants, of both genders, with different types of intercultural contact, our purpose is to...
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In the nursing context, structural empowerment has proved to be an organizational tool leading to the prevention of stress and burnout. Structural empowerment is defined as the perception of the presence or absence of empowering conditions in the workplace. However, few studies have explored the particular relationships between power in organizatio...
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Aim The objective of this study was to verify the mediating role of work engagement between self‐efficacy and affective organizational commitment on the basis of the Job Demands‐Resources Model in a sample of Spanish nursing staff. Background Affective organizational commitment is a key element, both for the permanence of nursing staff and for the...
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Greater effectiveness of health care does occur with a more effective management of interpersonal processes. A working management environment, which ensures sufficient access to information, support, resources, and opportunities (structural empowerment), probably can promote a personal perception of capacity and effectiveness (global empowerment) i...
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The aim of the study was to verify the mediator role of work engagement between supervisor social support and affective organizational commitment. A cross-sectional and correlational study using questionnaires was conducted. We obtained a convenience sample of 267 participants from 403 nurses from two public hospitals (66.25% response rate). Partic...
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Abstract: The aim of this study was to examine to what extent language anxiety and integrative motivation predict language achievement in Spanish as a second language in a sample of 249 Portuguese university stu- dents, using multiple and hierarchical linear regression models. Results showed negative relationships between language anxiety and cours...
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The aim of this study was to examine to what extent language anxiety and integrative motivation predict language achievement in Spanish as a second language in a sample of 249 Portuguese university students, using multiple and hierarchical linear regression models. Results showed negative relationships between language anxiety and course grade, and...
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Language anxiety is recognized as one of the affective elements with greater influence on the learning of foreign languages. However, few studies have been conducted on anxiety in the context of Spanish as a Foreign Language (SFL), and there is hardly research with Portuguese learners in higher education. This article explores the role of language...
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Objectives: This work sought to assess the predictor role of work engagement and social support from the supervisor and coworkers on affective commitment with the organization in nursing staff from southern Portugal. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with participation from 215 nursing professionals from three public hospitals in so...
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The work environment in Portuguese hospitals, characterized by economic cutbacks, can lead to higher levels of burnout experienced by nursing staff. Furthermore, vulnerability to stress can negatively affect the perception of burnout in the workplace. However, structural empowerment is an organizational process that can prevent and decrease burnout...
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This study aimed to analyze the explanatory contribution of social responsibility and organizational justice on commitment through the setting up of a theoretical model in order to better understand the relationships that are established between these constructs. The empirical study was developed in a public higher education institution with a samp...
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Aim: The aim was to examine to what extent structural empowerment (access to opportunities, support, information, and resources), and global empowerment predict job satisfaction in a sample of nursing staff from the south of Portugal. Design: A cross-sectional correlational study was made. Methods: Of 205 professional nursing surveyed, a final samp...
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Objective: Job satisfaction is considered to be one of the most important indicators of quality of health care and quality of work life for health professionals. In the context of nursing, social support and work engagement are regarded as two of the most important predictors of job satisfaction. Consequently, the aim of this study was to examine t...
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Aims: Kanter's structural empowerment model was used to assess the influence of access to opportunities, resources, information and support on core burnout through global empowerment in a nursing sample in Portugal. Background: The empowerment experience increases the levels of nursing professionals' satisfaction and performance preventing the e...
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This study is based on the technique Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM), in order to delineate a flowchart that shows the main ten barriers (and their relationships) influencing the development of Portuguese Entrepreneurship Ecosystem. Through a process of modelling it was possible to reach a graphical representation that shows the operating s...
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The aim of this study was to examine the impact of role stress (ambiguity and conflict) on job satisfaction through psychological empowerment in the workplace. Data was collected from 314 workers from southern Portugal (M age = 35.39, SD age =10.66; 69.75% women) Results indicated that role conflict had a direct effect on job satisfaction, while th...
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Objetivo: La satisfacción laboral es considerada como uno de los indicadores más importantes tanto de la calidad de los cuidados de salud como de la calidad de vida laboral de los profesionales de la salud. Entre los antecedentes de la satisfacción laboral, se destaca el apoyo social del supervisor y de los colegas y el engagement en el trabajo en...
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A satisfação no trabalho é compreendida como uma forma de analisar os indivíduos em contexto de trabalho, sendo a mesma determinada por fatores individuais (i. e., idade, educação, habilidades, experiência profissional) e a organizacionais (i. e., clima organizacional, condições de trabalho e gestão organizacional, entre outros). Os dados suportam...
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Purpose Negotiating effectively in multicultural contexts or others is not only a very important skill for all organizational elements but also crucial to inter-organizational relations (Adler, 2008). If defined as a process that occurs when one party feels adversely affected by another (De Dreu, 1997). Conflict management styles can be analyzed as...
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Increasingly, organizations enter into to give value to the optimal functioning of the individual, as it brings benefits for the individual and for the organization itself. On this assumption, the purpose of this research is examines the role between psychological empowerment and engagement at work as well as their impact on job satisfaction and we...
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El contexto laboral en los hospitales portugueses, caracterizado por los recortes económicos, puede contribuir al aumento de los niveles de burnout experimentados por el personal de enfermería. Además, la vulnerabilidad al estrés en estos profesionales afecta negativamente a la percepción del estrés en el contexto de trabajo. No obstante, el empowe...
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Since the nineties, interest in political and social environments has increased considerably. Several studies have found that the perception of people about their environment affects social cohesion, which has a significant impact on physical and mental health. The aim of this study is to verify the predictive role of satisfaction with the environm...
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Based on the management of diversity’s implications on the provision of public services, this work reflects on the perception that groups with ethnic differentiation have over housing policies in Andalusia. Specifically, we present the results obtained through a questionnaire elaborated ad hoc from a project based on modeling socio-spatial social i...
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Diferentes modelos de calidad y gestión incluyen las percepciones de los clientes así como las de los gerentes y empleados de contacto. La calidad del servicio no puede ser entendida sin considerar el papel clave jugado por estos últimos. En este sentido, las compañías deben asegurar la gestión adecuada de sus recursos humanos para garantizar la ex...
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Conflict is an inevitable reality both in personal and in organizational life. For being inevitable, the conflict must be managed Defined as a process that occurs when one party feels adversely affected by another (e.g., De Dreu, 1997 the conflict management styles can be analysed as a function of personality variables. In this respect the cultural...
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El objetivo de este estudio es examinar las relaciones entre estrés de rol, engagement y satisfacción laboral de acuerdo con el modelo demandas-recursos laborales. El modelo propuesto plantea que el engagement media la relación entre ambigüedad, conflicto y sobrecarga de rol, por un lado y satisfacción en el trabajo, por el otro. Para verificar el...
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The aim of this study was to adapt and translate into Portuguese the Conditions for Work Effectiveness Questionnaire (CWEQ-II) (Laschinger, Finegan, Shamian, & Wilk, 2004). A process of translation and reverse-translation was applied to the questionnaire's items, whose psychometric properties were examined using a sample of 282 Portuguese universit...
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The aim of this study was to adapt and translate into Portuguese the Conditions for Work Effectiveness Questionnaire (CWEQ-II) (Laschinger, Finegan, Shamian, & Wilk, 2004). A process of translation and reverse-translation was applied to the questionnaire's items, whose psychometric properties were examined using a sample of 282 Portuguese universit...
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With more organizations looking for employees who take initiative and respond creatively to the challenges of the job, engagement and psychological empowerment becomes important at both individual and organizational levels. Engaged employees are generally more satisfied with their work, committed and effective at work. According to the JDR model (S...
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A personalidade multicultural e a inteligência cultural são competências fundamentais para uma interação intercultural bem sucedida. Permitem avaliar as competências multiculturais e captar importantes aspetos da motivação, do desempenho e da adaptação eficaz em diversos contextos culturais. O presente artigo é composto por dois estudos. O primeiro...
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This study aims to present evidences of the validity of the social dominance orientation scale for Portuguese population. Participants were 910 Portuguese people. Most of them were women (58.7%), with ages ranging from 18 to 81 years (M=34.09; SD=11.57). Reliability analysis, exploratory factor analysis (n=455) and confirmatory factor analysis (n=4...
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Modern forms of sexism have promoted the development of new scales and evaluation tools. The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI) (Glick & Fiske, 1996) aims to assess sexism along two dimensions: hostile sexism and benevolent sexism. The aim of this study is to present evidence of the validity of the factor structure of the Portuguese version of the A...
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Different models of quality management include customers' perceptions as well as the perception of executives and contact employees. Service quality can hardly be understood without the critical role played by the later. In this sense, companies must make sure they have an adequate management of human resources in order to guarantee such quality. H...
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O Empowerment Psicológico é um constructo motivacional pela garantia de condições que aumentem a motivação para a realização das tarefas, com um forte sentido de autoeficácia. O presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar a estrutura fatorial da escala de Empowerment Psicológico numa amostra portuguesa de 230 indivíduos, funcionários de universidade...
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Psychological empowerment is a motivational construct, by ensuring conditions that increase motivation to perform tasks, with a strong sense of self-efficacy. The present study aimed to examine the factor structure of the psychological empowerment scale in a Portuguese sample of 230 individuals, employees of a public university in Portugal. The res...
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La vivienda de protección oficial fue creada en España en 1963 con el objetivo de proporcionar uniformidad y orden dentro de la legislación existente. Desde el año 1978, a raíz de la distribución de competencias establecida en la Constitución Española y en los estatutos de autonomía de las comunidades autónoma, la gestión de la vivienda social corr...
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El objetivo de este estudio es adaptar al español el Cuestionario de Condiciones para la Efectividad en el Trabajo (Conditions of Work Effectiveness Questionnaire [CWEQII]) desarrollado por Laschinger, Finegan, Shamian y Wilk (2001). Se llevó a cabo un proceso de traducción y retrotraducción de los ítems que lo componen y se exploraron sus propieda...
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Passion is defined as a strong inclination to engage in an activity that people like, that they find important, and in which they invest time and energy. As no specific measure to assess levels of passion in the workplace in Portugal is available, the aim of this study was to adapt the Passion scale into Portuguese and validate it. The scale was tr...
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Purpose: According to the Job Demands-Resources (JDR) model, engagement and job satisfaction may be produce by two types of working conditions: job demands (i.e. role stress) and job resources (i.e. self-efficacy). This study examines the role of role stress and work engagement as antecedents of job satisfaction in a sample of Spanish workers. Desi...
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Passion is defined as a strong inclination toward an activity the people like, that they find important, and in which they invest time and energy, like working. The aim of this study is to present evidence of the validity of the factor structure of the Spanish version of the Passion Scale. Exploratory factor analysis was carried out in a heterogene...
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Passion is defined as a strong inclination to engage in an activity that people like, that they find important, and in which they invest time and energy. As no specific measure to assess levels of passion in the workplace in Portugal is available, the aim of this study was to adapt the Passion scale into Portuguese and validate it. The scale was tr...
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Different models of quality management include customers' perceptions as well as the perception of executives and contact employees. Service quality can hardly be understood without the critical role played by the later. In this sense, companies must make sure they have an adequate management of human resources in order to guarantee such quality. H...
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The aim of this study is to examine the mediating role of the service climate between organizational empowerment (i.e., dynamic structural framework, control of workplace decisions, fluidity in information sharing) and service quality (functional and relational). 428 contact employees from 46 hotels participated in the survey. Correlations demonstr...
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The objective of this study is to adapt and translate into Spanish the Conditions for Work Effectiveness Questionnaire -CWEQ II-(Laschinger, Finegan, Shamian & Wilk, 2001). A process of translation and reverse-translation was applied to the scale's items, whose psychometric properties were then examined using a sample of 346 employees from a Spanis...
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Cada vez mais as organizações encetam a dar valor ao funcionamento ótimo do indivíduo, uma vez que acarreta vantagens, tanto para o indivíduo, como para a própria organização. Partindo deste pressuposto, o objetivo desta investigação, é analisar as relações do empowerment psicológico e o engagement no trabalho sobre a satisfação profissional. Parti...
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With more organizations looking for employees who take initiative and respond creatively to the challenges of the job, engagement becomes important at both individual and organizational levels. Engaged employees are generally more satisfied with their work, committed and effective at work. According to the JDR model (Schaufeli & Bakker, 2004), enga...
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With more organizations looking for employees who take the initiative and respond creatively to the challenges of the job, empowerment becomes important at both individual and organizational levels. Empowered employees are generally more satisfied with their work, committed and effective at work. According to Kanter's structural empowerment, this s...
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This paper analyzes the moderator role of harmonious passion for work in the relationship between burnout and psychological distress. Harmonious passion is defined as the personal option to freely engage in an activity (e.g., work) without any contingencies attached. Its role in moderating the relationship between burnout and its consequences such...
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Passion is defined as a strong inclination toward an activity that people like, that they find important and in which they invest time and energy, such as working or playing football. Since a specific measure to assess levels of passion in the workplace is lacking in Spain, the aim of this study was to adapt and validate the Passion scale (Valleran...
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The ambivalent sexism of men expressed a desire to take care of women, protect them and worship them. These attitudes courteous and considered in relation to women are defined as paternalistic chivalry. This study aims to present evidence metrics adaptation to the Portuguese population scale paternalistic chivalry through confirmatory factor analyz...
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O sexismo ambivalente expressa um desejo dos homens de cuidar das mulheres, protegê-las e adorá-las. Essas atitudes corteses e consideradas em relação às mulheres são definidas como o cavalheirismo paternalista. Este estudo pretende apresentar evidências métricas da adaptação à população portuguesa da escala de cavalheirismo paternalista por meio d...
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Não há consenso no que concerne à estrutura da escala de Necessidade de Cognição, (versão curta) de Cacioppo, Petty e Kao (1984). O presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar a estrutura fatorial da escala de 18 itens, numa amostra Portuguesa de 344 indivíduos, com distribuições semelhantes entre gêneros e 45,3 tendo como habilitação o ensino secun...
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There is no consensus regarding the structure of the Need for Cognition scale (short version) of Cacioppo, Petty and Kao (1984). The present study aims to examine the fator structure of the scale of 18 items in a Portuguese sample of 344 individuals with similar distribution among gende