Amparo Osca Segovia

• Doctor of Psychology
• National University of Distance Education

Objective: Teacher burnout has hardly been compared across countries, although it has become a global health issue. This review aimed to examine teacher burnout (effect size) and its variation across countries by testing the effects of gender, gender egalitarianism, and national learning assessments (NLAs). Design: A systematic literature search wa...

Although the negative effects of mobile instant messaging have been stressed, its exponential increment justifies studying its application in education. This paper analyses whether college’ students perception of WhatsApp usefulness influences cognitive processes important for teamwork (i.e., specialization and coordination), specifically for compl...

Highlights • Immigrant workers accident rate varies depending on cultural values. • Masculinity and power distance show curvilinear patterns when account for accidents. • Interactions between values explain accidents in Industry, Construction, and Service. • Prevention should consider cultural values rather than the country differences. Abstract A...

Big Data (BD) has become a valuable resource for companies. Publications on BD have grown enormously but scholarly work is scarce. The present review aims to systematise the academic inputs so far and to clarify what is the novelty of BD, what are its implications and challenges for HRM practices, and in which HR practice systems the main contribut...

Objective The objective of this study was to investigate the actor and partner effects of personal coping strategies (behavioral and emotional) on emotional exhaustion, directly and indirectly through work–family conflict, in dual‐earner couples, from a gender perspective. Background Previous studies support the relevance of personal coping strate...

Notably, most studies on burnout in Veterinary Medicine have used the Maslach Burnout Inventory; however, it has limitations and does not evaluate severe burnout. Therefore, in this study, we validated the Burnout Assessment Tool-Core Symptoms (BAT-C) in a sample of Spanish veterinarians. Its invariance concerning sex and cutoff points were also ca...

Telework has been seen as a crucial tool for enhancing work-home balance, and potentially boosting employee wellbeing. However, contradictory findings highlight the necessity of integrating a gender perspective. This study aims to find out the psychosocial effects of teleworking on wellbeing from a gender perspective through a systematic review sin...

Background Occupational stress is a serious problem in veterinary medicine; however, validated instruments to measure this problem are lacking. The aim of the current study was to address this literature gap by designing and validating a questionnaire and establishing the cut-off points for identifying veterinarians with high and low levels of stre...

Background Occupational stress is a serious problem in veterinary medicine; however, validated instruments to measure this problem are lacking. The aim of the current study was to address this literature gap by designing and validating a questionnaire and establishing the cut-off points for identifying veterinarians with high and low levels of stre...

Background Occupational stress is a serious problem in veterinary medicine; however, validated instruments to measure this problem are lacking. The aim of the current study was to address this literature gap by designing and validating a questionnaire and establishing the cut-off points for identifying veterinarians with high and low levels of stre...

The quantity of teleworkers had already been rising in various work fields even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it was not until the pandemic that it spread to other sectors such as the industrial sector. There are still few studies looking at telework’s impact on this important sector. This article is intended to discuss: (1) the extent o...

¿Son las organizaciones Jerárquicas más susceptibles de generar estrés y problemas de salud a sus miembros? La respuesta a esta pregunta no es sencilla porque la relación entre estas varables es comple a e Intervienen múltiples factores. Este trabajo profundiza en dos aspectos que influyen en la percepción de la estructura organizacional y en sus c...

Este estudio analiza la evolución del cumplimiento y la concienciación respecto de las medidas de igualdad y no discriminación por razón de sexo en el ámbito laboral, desde un triple enfoque. Primero, se aborda el cumplimiento efectivo de la ley examinando las actuaciones, infracciones y número de trabajadores afectados según los datos de la Inspec...

Work accidents are complex poly-causal phenomena. Their explanation and prediction depend on many variables that interact and influence each other at the same time. Exploratory graph analysis models (Golino & Epskamp, 2017), also called networks, are the models that best address this complexity, among others. Specifically, undirected graphs based o...

Environment and personality interact determining the manner a subject behaves, but research on how to conceptualise and measure the environment is still scarce. This article addresses this issue presenting strong evidence on the reliability and validity of the Situational Strength at Work (SSW) Scale (Meyer et al., 2014) in Spanish-speaking work co...

Despite the amount of research on family-work conflict and burnout, there persist questions about their relations and which coping strategies are the most effective. In this paper we address this issue from a gender perspective with a sample of 131 dual-earner couples developing both individual and couple analyses. The results at the individual lev...

Many studies have examined the effect of situational strength (clarity, consistency, constraints, and consequences) on organisational behaviour, but little has been investigated about its health effects. This study aimed to analyse the relationship between situational strength and burnout. Specifically, we examined whether situational strength char...

Los sistemas de dimensiones culturales nacionales de Hofstede (2001) y del proyecto GLOBE (House et al., 2004) han sido los más utilizados en literatura transcultural, sin embargo pocos estudios comparan los resultados de ambos sistemas y ninguno se ha utilizado para analizar la accidentabilidad laboral. En este estudio se analiza el perfil cultura...

Information on your employees comes with the responsibility to manage it and analyse it for a more productive workplace. This interview was published in 'Your Workplace Magazine' (May-June) 2020, Nº 22-3, p. 40-42.

This article analyses gender differences in occupational accidents from three research areas in which differences have been found: occupational stress, personality and driving patterns. Specifically, it uses the Job Demand-Control Model (JDC) and adds neuroticism and conscientiousness as personality variables related to accidents. Survey data were...

Objetivo: analizar el efecto de la resiliencia en la salud laboral y si este efecto es diferente en función del problema de salud. Metodología: en una muestra de 135 sujetos se analizó la capacidad explicativa de la resiliencia sobre dos problemas de salud laboral (agotamiento emocional y cinismo) mediante el análisis de las relaciones lineales, cu...

Changes in the education system in Ecuador have increased the workload of university teachers, producing stress and burnout. This study analyses the relation between work overload, coping styles and emotional exhaustion in a sample of 202 university teachers by using a hierarchical regression model analysis. The results show that work overload and...

Social work professionals have to confront an increasingly strenuous job context (e.g., more users into the system, budgetary cuts, increasing bureaucracy, etc.), and these changes added to their interest in social justice turn their job into a very demanding one. Furthermore, over the few last years, organizational justice has produced a great dea...

Burnout is a highly prevalent globalized health issue that causes significant physical and psychological health problems. In Latin America research on this topic has increased in recent years, however there are no studies comparing results across countries, nor normative reference cut-offs. The present meta-analysis examines the intensity of burnou...

Partiendo del modelo Demandas - Recursos (Bakker y Demerouti, 2007) este trabajo examina la relación entre la fuerza situacional como demanda de trabajo, la resiliencia como recurso y el burnout, en una muestra de vendedores y comerciales, y analiza el papel moderador de la resiliencia entre la fuerza situacional y el burnout. La fuerza situacional...

La idea de que los trabajadores extranjeros tienen más accidentes laborales con baja que las poblaciones autóctonas es un dato que normalmente aparece en las cifras oficiales. Sin embargo, los estudios al respecto son escasos y los resultados no concluyentes. Este trabajo analiza esta problemática con un doble análisis descriptivo y explicativo del...

p> This study analyzes the relationship between action-focused coping, emotion-focused coping and burnout dimensions (emotional exhaustion, cynicism and personal accomplishment) by comparing linear, non-linear and interaction models using quadratic regression analysis. The sample consisted of 202 college professors. Variables such as gender or age...

In line with the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) theory, this paper studies the relationship between role ambiguity (Demand) and group cohesion (Resource) to predict job satisfaction. This study was carried out at the same multinational company in Mexico and Spain (N = 537), where blue-collar workers are organized in work groups. It is hypothesized th...

Resumen • ¿Por qué queremos trabajadores satisfechos? • ¿Es solo una pregunta ética o es conveniente para las empresas que sus trabajadores estén satisfechos? • ¿Es más fácil o más difícil trabajar con personas satisfechas? • ¿Es cierto que los trabajadores satisfechos se desempeñan mejor? Estas son algunas de las preguntas que se abordan en e...

Based upon the revised Job Demands and Resources Model (2008) we aim first, to test the relations between work-family conflict and emotional exhaustion across time and second, to determine the role of professional self-efficacy in this relation. A longitudinal study was conducted in two times, with a year of interval in a Spanish Army sample (n=242...

Work-related accidents are a problem of extreme importance due to their serious consequences. Available data on the level of personal injuries and on the economic cost of work accidents justify their study. However, the amount of variables involved, the difficulty of accessing data and "experimental mortality", among other reasons, may explain why...

Work-related accidents are a problem of extreme importance due to their serious consequences. Available data on the level of personal injuries and on the economic cost of work accidents justify their study. However, the amount of variables involved, the difficulty of accessing the data and “experimental mortality”, among other reasons, may explain...

The article analyses the direct and modulating effects of family support on burnout in the work-family conflict in Spanish middle-class families. The analysis has been separated by gender in order to better examine differences. Direct relationships in the data show that family support is negatively related to the two subscales of burnout, especiall...

In line with the Job Demands-Resources Model (JD-R) this study analyzes the role of task-oriented norm (job resource) and role stressors (job demands) to predict job satisfaction over time. In order to test this effect, a sample was gathered in a manufacturing setting at two different times. Hierarchical regression analysis tests the principal and...

This paper analyzes the differences in group processes and outcomes in a multinational company. The total sample consists of 363 employees: 121 Spanish (engaged in production tasks) and 242 Mexican workers (121 engaged in production tasks and 121 performing services tasks to the production line). According to our results Spanish’s perception of gro...

The main goal of this study is to investigate the influence of three organizational and individual antecedents on knowledge-sharing intention: perceived organizational support, psychological climate and organizational commitment. To analyze the direct and indirect relationships among variables, a structural equations model is proposed. The object o...

This work takes as reference the Demand-Control-Support model and analyzes the relation of job control and social support and some job demands and physical well-being in a sample of 285 construction workers. In general, job demands, exposure to harmful conditions, social support, and job control were found to be related to physical well-being. The...

Este estudio toma como referencia el modelo Demandas-Control-Apoyo y analiza el rol del control y del apoyo social entre algunas demandas laborales y el malestar físico en una muestra de 285 trabajadores de la construcción. En general, se observa que las demandas laborales, la exposición a condiciones nocivas, el control del trabajo y el apoyo soci...

En nuestro país, desde la década de los 90, las empresas líderes del sector de la automoción comenzaron a modificar sus estructuras para hacerlas más competitivas. La introducción de tecnología permitió modificar el contenido de los puestos y trabajar en equipo. En este contexto, nuestro grupo de investigación inició hace diez años el estudio de la...

In our country, during the 90's, leading companies in the automotive sector began to modify their structures to become more competitive. The introduction of technology allowed to modify the job content and to introduce teamwork. In this context, ten years ago, our research group started to study the variables involve in the effectiveness of groups,...

The impact of size and diversity on group process and outputs. This study has analyzed the impact of size and diversity on group processes (group cohesion, effective management of conflicts, and group norms) and outputs (work satisfaction and group effectiveness) in a sample (N= 407) of Mexican workers. It considered two types of diversity: functio...

Construction work is a very dangerous occupation, thus it is important to reduce worker exposure to organizational stressors. This study examines the relationships between three organizational variables (job stress, safety climate, social support) and accidents or near-miss outcomes. Self-reported questionnaire data collected from 285 construction...

The study examines the relationship between justice in personnel selection and the intentions regarding the organization. A total of 261 applicants were surveyed after the selection results were known. A questionnaire was used to measure procedural, interactional and informational justice as well as the intention to recommend the organization, the...

RESUMEN La agricultura es uno de los sectores con más accidentes laborales, sin embargo, no se ha profundizado suficiente en el estudio psicosocial de sus riesgos. El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar la relación entre diferentes estresores del puesto, el malestar (físico y psicológico) y el número de accidentes laborales en una muestra de...

Agriculture is one of the sectors with more occupational accidents; nevertheless, its psychosocial risks have not been sufficiently studied. The objective of this research is to analyze the relationship between different job stressors, physical and psychological distress and the number of occupational accidents in a sample of 261 Spanish farmers. J...

This study analyzes the relationship between role stress and burnout and the modulating role of the job involvement in the aforementioned relationship using a sample consisting on 779 professional soldiers of the Spanish Army. The results show that the conflict, the role ambiguity and the two dimensions of job involvement are significantly related...

Este estudio analiza la relación entre el estrés de rol y el burnout y el papel modulador de la implicación con el trabajo en una muestra de 779 soldados profesionales del ejército español. Los resultados encontrados muestran que el conflicto, la ambigüedad de rol y las dos dimensiones de la implicación con el trabajo se relacionan significativamen...

This paper analyzes the modulator role of job involvement in the relationship between stress and job satisfaction, using the OSI (Occupational Stress Indicator) model. For this purpose, we analyzed: six sources of stress, the OSI job satisfaction results, and a job involvement scale. The sample consisted of 779 professional soldiers from the Spanis...

Cualquier persona puede sufrir un accidente, pero la población más joven es la que tiene mayo riesgo. El presente trabajo revisa los estudios sobre las variables explicativas de los accidentes (laborales y de tráfico) prestando una especial atención a la incidencia de los factores personales. Diversas investigaciones apoyan el papel de las caracter...

El objetivo del presente trabajo es estudiar la relación entre el afecto producido por el uso de la comparación social y el burnout. Para ello se ha contado con una muestra de 357 soldados profesionales de las Fuerzas Armadas Españolas. Se ha utilizado la versión española de la escala de “Identificación y Contraste” de van der Zee, Buunk, Sanderman...

Purpose To analyse the influence of three different types of organisational support (supervisor's and colleagues' support, training, and acknowledgement and rewards) on the implementation of teamwork systems. Design/methodology/approach Main and buffer effects of social support were tested using different subjective (job satisfaction and job invol...

This paper examines applicant perception of selection processes and its relation on the one hand with a number of socio-demographic variables, including gender, age and education, and on the other hand with career variables such as unemployment time, assessment of experience and to stop looking for a job. The starting point is the Spanish version o...

Uno de los rasgos más relevantes de las sociedades occidentales actuales es el aumento de las tasas de actividad de las mujeres en ámbitos donde tradicionalmente su presencia era escasa, como el trabajo o la política. Las mujeres han ¡do accediendo a las organizaciones y comenzando a formar parte de sus estructuras de poder. Sin embargo, este acces...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the levels of role conflict and ambiguity and the relationship between these role Stressors and the physical well-being and the psychological well-being (burnout), in a sample of 357 professional soldiers from the Spanish Army. Data were collected by Rizzo, Jouse & Lirtzman (1970) scale for role conflict and amb...

El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar los niveles de conflicto y ambigüedad de rol de una muestra de 357 soldados profesionales del Ejército español, así como la relación entre estos estresores y el bienestar físico y psicológico (burnout). Para ello se ha utilizado la escala de conflicto y ambigüedad de rol de Rizzo, Jouse y Lirtzman (1970), el...

Resumen La investigación muestra que, en general, existen diferencias a favor de los hombres en avance profesional. Este trabajo tiene dos objetivos: primero analizar las diferencias de género en tres indicadores de desarrollo de carrera (salario anual, el nivel profesionaly ascensos) en profesionales españoles (N=232); segundo, examinar la influen...

El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar las características psicométricas de una escala de apoyo social para trabajadores: el «Inventario de Apoyo Familiar para Trabajadores» de King, Mattimore, King y Adams (1995). Debido a la ausencia de instrumentos en nuestro idioma, hemos traducido este cuestionario de su original en inglés. Dicho cuestionario...

The aim of this paper is to test the psychometrical characteristics of a scale of social support for workers: the «Inventory of Family Support for Workers» (IFSW) by King, Mattimore, King and Adams (1995). This questionnaire has been translated from English into Spanish due to the lack of this type of instruments in this language. According to the...

According to the Job Characteristics Model (Hackman and Oldham, 1976, 1980), autonomy, significance, variety, standardization and feedback influence worker satisfaction and performance. this paper describes an experience of introducing work groups in automotive industry, examining the impact of task characteristics on three indicators of maintenanc...

Resumen La introducción de grupos de trabajo en las organizacionespretende contribuir a los nuevos retos empresariales, incrementando la participación y la autonomía de los trabajadores. Uno de los aspectos que se revela central a la hora de efectuar el cambio es el tipo de tareas que los trabajadores realizan en la nueva estructura en grupos (Good...

Traditionally, work and family life have been studied separately, without taking the interactions that occur between them into account. In this paper we present the Kopelman, Greenhaus and Connolly (1983) Work-Family Conflict Scale applied to a Spanish sample. This evaluates the degree of conflict at work, in the family and the inter-role conflict;...

En este trabajo, en primer lugar, se pone de manifiesto la importancia del 'estado deseado' en el proceso de cambio para la evaluación e intervención en la cultura organizacional. A continuación, utilizando el Cuestionario de Kilmann y Saxton se investiga la cultura organizacional de dos organizaciones sociales públicas de parecidas características...

Este trabajo analiza el papel modulador de la implicación con el trabajo en la relación entre el estrés y la satisfacción laboral en el modelo OSI (Occupational Stress Indicador). Para ello, se han analizado las seis fuentes de estrés y la satisfacción laboral del OSI y una escala de implicación con el trabajo. La muestra está formada por 779 solda...

Este estudio ha analizado el impacto del tamaño y la diversidad grupal sobre los procesos (cohesión grupal, manejo eficaz de los conflictos y normas grupales) y resultados grupales (satisfacción laboral y eficacia grupal) en una muestra (N= 407) de trabadores mexicanos. Se consideraron dos tipos de diversidad: diversidad funcional y social. Los aná...

El trabajo en la construcción es una ocupación muy peligrosa por lo que es importante reducir la exposición de los trabajadores a estresores organizacionales. Este estudio analiza la relación entre tres variables organizacionales (estrés laboral, clima de seguridad y apoyo social) y los accidentes e incidentes en empleados de la construcción. A tra...