Lara ColomboUniversità degli Studi di Torino | UNITO
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Self-care for health care professionals is essential in order to optimize the care they provide and to prevent serious consequences for their health. This scoping review aimed to identify (a) the concepts used in the literature to describe self-care; (b) interventions that influence self-care. The scoping review was conducted according to the crite...
This chapter focuses on the importance of workers’ personal resources during difficult times, such as the pandemic period. In particular, the role of self-compassion in the work context is examined as an important resource for maintaining psycho-physical well-being. Further attention will be given to the impact of self-compassion on neuroscience re...
Confronting death and suffering represent central work-related contents in the funeral industry occupations. Despite past research evidence on the role of psychosocial risks, a positive side of the relationship with death exposure has also been highlighted. To expand research on these topics, the aim of the present study was to analyze the role of...
Purpose
Work–family balance practices available in several work organizations to help employees with children to manage the demands of work and family life can have a negative impact on employees with family commitments, on childless employees and on the organization itself, as Perrigino et al. show in their theoretical review. This is the work–fam...
Passion for work is an important individual factor related to the quality of working life. Flow at work is an optimal experience
in which the individual is immersed in, loves and enjoys the work. The aim of the study is to investigate the relationship
between passion for work (harmonious and obsessive), flow at work (as a mediator) and exhaustion i...
Italy was the second country to be affected by COVID-19 in early 2020, after China. The confrontation with the pandemic led to great changes in the world of work and, consequently, to the personal world of workers. In such a challenging situation, it is essential to be able to rely on resources that facilitate individual coping. The aim of this stu...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of humor in working environments in which professionals are constantly exposed to death, bereavement and to human suffering and its use in negotiating work experiences by workers. This study includes a qualitative research design with semi-structured interviews and focus groups as research tools....
The COVID-19 epidemic caught governments and health authorities off guard and found them unprepared to face its impact on the world population. Italy was the second country after China to face the outbreak of COVID-19 in the first few months of 2020 and the northern part of the country was hit first and most heavily. Following the JD-R theory, an o...
The funeral and mortuary sector, including funeral homes, cemeteries and crematoria, is a largely neglected sector in regard to the study of occupational factors that can affect the quality of working life. The present study aimed at overcoming this gap by investigating job demands and resources that may affect burnout levels. Data were collected t...
Background:
The COVID-19 pandemic led the worldwide healthcare system to a severe crisis in which personnel paid the major costs. Many studies were promptly dedicated to the physical and psychological consequences of the COVID-19 exposure among healthcare employees, whereas the research on the other working populations has been substantially ignor...
Le professioni in ambito socio-psico-educativo presentano in Italia percorsi di studio distinti, in ragione della necessità di formare professionisti con un profilo di competenze differenziato. Tuttavia le professioni definite "di cura", educative o "del sociale", vengono spesso considerate simili dagli studentiche si stanno orientando verso le ste...
Professions that involve interaction with customers entail great emotional effort: workers are required to show emotions different from their true feeling and they experienced emotional dissonance and verbal aggression from customers. These job demands can generate discomfort and the effects of emotional labour can “expand” in other life domains. T...
Police officers are among the workers most exposed to acute or chronic stressful events, which compromises their psychosocial well-being and physical health. Exposure to traumatic events, human suffering, problematic situations and episodes of violence can cause psychological damage and lead to the development of secondary traumatic stress. The aim...
Introduzione. La letteratura ha dimostrato l’influenza delle variabili individuali sui risultati accademici e sul benessere degli studenti. Meno indagato è invece il ruolo della mindfulness, intesa come stato di attenzione intenzionale e non giudicante agli eventi contingenti. In particolare, essa risulta funzionale alla prevenzione di stati negati...
Background
Past studies in the teaching context provided evidence of the role of mindfulness-based intervention in improving occupational wellbeing. This study aims to increase the extant knowledge by testing the mechanism that links teachers’ mindfulness at work to occupational wellbeing. Rooted in the job demand–resource model, the mindfulness tr...
This study investigated job crafting as mediator and its relation with job satisfaction and work-family conflict, considering job autonomy as antecedent. The research involved 389 participants working in a public organization. A structural equations model was estimated revealing that job autonomy is positively associated with job crafting and job s...
This study examined flow at work, an optimal experience for individuals and organizations generating motivation and well-being. Relationships between job resources, flow at work, and personal resources were investigated, and their association with positive/negative emotions at work was also investigated. In all, 520 Italian nurses completed a quest...
In Italy, the Italian National Anti-Corruption Authority (Autorità Nazionale Anti-corruzione-ANAC) has developed a questionnaire to assess the organizational well-being of employees within public agencies. The study aimed to explore the relationship among variables in the ANAC questionnaire: Several job resources (lack of discrimination, fairness,...
Background: Cemeteries workers are deserving of attention because they are exposed to various psychosocial risks: these workers are subject to painful contacts and daily exposed to a work content linked to death experiences and the emotions associated with them. Secondary trauma develops from this continuous contact with others’ suffering; operator...
Based on the theoretical approach of the psychology of sustainability and sustainable development and on the theoretical Job Demands-Resources model, this contribution aims to explore the mediating effect of seeking challenges on the relationship between workload and contextual performance and the moderating effects of individual adaptability and o...
Research on job crafting is increasing nowadays. Job crafting has been studied in terms of a mediator variable useful to improve positive organizational behaviors, and it has crucial theoretical and practical implications. In order to facilitate its measurement in large surveys, in different settings, we aimed to develop a brief 12-item version, th...
Job insecurity and off-work hours Technology Assisted Job Demand (off-TAJD) can impact individual and organizational outcomes. This study aims to investigate the relationship between job insecurity, off-TAJD, cognitive demands and turnover intention by considering the mediation of exhaustion. The research involved a convenience sample of 543 employ...
BACKGROUND
In Italy, the work-related stress and organizational well-being evaluation is subject to specific norms and regulations. The Italian National Anti-Corruption Authority (Autorità Nazionale Anticorruzione - ANAC) has developed a questionnaire to assess the organizational well-being of the employees in Public Administration Institutions.
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Burnout represents a relevant risk for ambulance volunteers. According to the Job Demands-Resources model, role conflict and social support can be considered as antecedents of burnout which, in turn, may lower affective commitment. This study aims to investigate the relationship between social support, role conflict, and affective commitment, as me...
Background
Turnover intentions refer to employees’ intent to leave the organization and, within call centers, it can be influenced by factors such as relational variables or the perception of the quality of working life, which can be affected by emotional dissonance. This specific job demand to express emotions not felt is peculiar in call centers,...
Flow at work is a state of consciousness characterized by absorption, enjoyment and intrinsic motivation. Optimal experiences are crucial in sport since athletes link performances and achievement to psychological states. This study aims to adapt to sport the Italian version of the WOrk-reLated Flow inventory (I-WOLF). Factorial validity of the adap...
Introduzione. In questo studio è analizzato il ruolo del clima di sicurezza, ovvero dell’attenzione dell’organizzazione alla salute e sicurezza dei lavoratori, e di alcune richieste e risorse lavorative in relazione alla soddisfazione lavorativa, intesa come indicatore di benessere cognitivo al lavoro. Il benessere al lavoro è oggetto di crescente...
Objectives:
This study examined the role of the "safety climate", or the organization's attention to health and safety of workers, and of job demand and resources in relation with job satisfaction. Wellbeing at work is a topic of growing interest, in line with the legislation and the programs on health and safety of workers and management and the...
Lo studio prende in considerazione i rischi psicosociali dei lavoratori di un cimitero del Nord Italia. Questi operatori sono fortemente a rischio sul piano della salute in quanto costantemente esposti a un contenuto traumatico. I principali rischi sono infatti riconducibili alle caratteristiche del lavoro emotivo (Zapf et al., 2001) e al potenzial...
In the Western world, the differences between men and women career's pattern still remain: women are clearly underrepresented in leadership roles and their career is blocked in intermediary positions. Women's careers tend to be nonlinear, disjointed, interrupted and fulfil of obstacles, tied up in the struggle to juggle between work and life. Using...
Tra i recenti esempi di attenzione al Benessere organizzativo (BO) nella Pubblica Amministrazione (PA) italiana vi è il modello proposto dall'Autorità Nazionale Anticorruzione (ANAC) 1 per "rilevare il benessere organizzativo, il grado di condivisione del sistema di valutazione, nonché la della del superiore gerarchico da parte del personale" (D.Lg...
Background: The relationship between technology-assisted supplemental work and well-being outcomes is a recent issue in scientific literature. Whether the use of technology for work purpose in off-work time may have a positive or negative impact on work-family balance remains an open question and the role of gender in this relationship is poorly un...
Il contributo prende in considerazione la relazione tra richieste e risorse lavorative, flow at work (FaW) e intenzione di turnover. In particolare è osservato il ruolo della insicurezza lavorativa percepita che risulta avere conseguenze negative sul benessere dei lavoratori. Lo studio indaga la relazione tra richieste lavorative (carico lavorativo...
Passion is a strong inclination toward an activity that people like and find important, characterized by harmonious passion and obsessive passion. This study aims to provide a psychometric evaluation of the Italian version of the Passion Scale developed by Vallerand and colleagues, applied to work. To assess the factorial validity of the Italian sc...
Flow is an inner experience produced by the participation in an activity in which people are immersed and enjoy it (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990). According to the Job Demands-Resources Model (Bakker and Demerouti, 2014), flow at work (FaW) occurs when job demands meet professional skills and when they are balanced by resources (Csikszentmihalyi, 2003)....
Background: Emotional labor, defined as the process of regulating feelings and expressions as part of the work role, is a major characteristic in call centers. In particular, interacting with customers, agents are required to show certain emotions that are considered acceptable by the organization, even though these emotions may be different from t...
Flow at work is defined as a short-term peak experience characterized by absorption, work enjoyment, and intrinsic work motivation. This study tests the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the WOrk-reLated Flow (I-Wolf) inventory developed by Bakker (2008). In a first step, an exploratory factor analysis (N = 323) and a multigroup con...
Job crafting refers to actions carried out by workers in order to bring their job demands and job resources at a preferred level. Crafting behaviors are measured by the Dutch Job Crafting Scale (JCS). The Italian version of the JCS includes the following three positive factors: increasing structural job resources, social job resources and challengi...
The nursing profession is characterized by a work paradox: motivating but also at risk in terms of health and with a high workers' turnover intention. It is therefore important understanding the dynamics reducing discomfort. The present study detects the mediation of flow at work between job demands and psychosomatic disorders. 259 nurses fulfilled...
AimIn the light of the job demands–resources model, this study aimed to detect the mediating role of flow at work between job demands and job resources on one side, and exhaustion on the other.Background
In a historical period where it is necessary to reduce the abandonment of nursing profession, flow is a useful tool to investigate the factors tha...
Objective:
The changes in the academic world led to an increase in job demands and a decrease in the available job resources. In recent years, the positive image of work in academia has gradually blurred. The present study, within the theoretical framework of the job demands-resources model, aimed to analyse the relationship between some job deman...
Work-family conflict (wfc), that originates from an incompatibility between the job and the family demands, is a very relevant topic in health care context, as suggested by NEXT study. Work overload and schedule organization are dimensions that can affect wfc, and particularly, studies indicate work shifts as one of its main determinants, as they l...
Introduction:
The theme of well-being and discomfort at work has attracted increasing interest in recent years. The present study, according to Job Demands-Resources model (JD-R), inquires the effects of personal (optimism, internal locus of control) and organizational resources (job autonomy, supervisors and colleagues support) and general (work-...
Il conflitto lavoro-famiglia, dovuto all'incompatibilità tra le richieste associate al ruolo lavorativo e a quello familiare, rappresenta un tema oggetto di crescente attenzione per le sue possibili conseguenze negative a livello individuale, familiare e organizzativo. La presente ricerca ha coinvolto 641 dipendenti di un'azienda svedese, con l'obi...
Work-family conflict due to incompatibility between work and family role demands has been increasingly studied because of its possible negative consequences, including personal, familiar and work-related outcomes. This research involved 641 employees of a Swedish company, with the aim of examining how the work-family conflict is influenced by certa...
Nell'ambito degli studi sulla relazione lavoro-famiglia, grande attenzione e stata dedicata alla prospettiva del conflitto lavoro-famiglia, definito come un'incompatibilita tra le richieste associate al ruolo lavorativo e familiare. La presente ricerca ha coinvolto 190 infermieri professionali di una struttura sanitaria. Obiettivo principale dello...
Although the term workaholism is widely used, because of the changes in the nature of work and careers in recent years, research on this topic is still hindered by the absence of common definitions and measures. In recent times, some researchers have found evidence of the association of workaholism and poorer psychosocial well-being: hence, the nee...
In recent years, the interest in the well-being at work has grown considerably, also considering the latest law directives. Several scholars have devoted particular attention to the topic of the work-to-family influence and of social supports, as elements able to affect the perceived well-being. The well-being in health care has to consider the par...
The working environment of call centers, which have seen a significant growth in recent years, has been the subject of several studies aiming at understanding its specific dynamics, with particular attention to the possible causes of stress and discomfort. Despite the fact that the work-family conflict is considered a source of stress responsible f...
Even though the conflict perspective dominated work-family interface literature during the 1980s and 1990s, more recently the interest in exploring the positive side of interaction between work and family roles has been increasing. This study aimed to propose some theoretical reflections about the construct of work-family enrichment and to describe...
The topics of stress and well-being in call centres are the focus of many different disciplines. This article presents the definition and start-up phases of the "Well-being in Telecom Italia Call Centres" project, which was coordinated and supervised by an interdisciplinary scientific committee composed of members from different universities. To ad...
The aim of the present study was to develop a research model explaining the causal relationship between certain antecedents (job and emotional charge, supportive management and colleagues), work-family conflict (WFC) and job satisfaction.
Many research projects in health organizations have highlighted the link between high WFC and lower levels of j...
Organization research has shown increasing interest in the dynamics of work-family conflict (w.f.c.). The NEXT study highlights that w.f.c. significantly influences satisfaction for one's job and the decision to quit the nursing profession.
This study analyzes w.f.c. in a sample of Italian nurses, with the aim of examining the main differences in r...
The work-family conflict is a topic of increasing interest in psychological research: many are the theoretical speculations as well as the attempts to provide adequate measuring instruments. In Italy the few studies devoted to this topic mostly use Netemeyer et al. (1996) scale, which measures the workfamily and family-work conflict. This study rev...
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Project (1)
The overall objective of the project is to identify and detect psychosocial risk factors and protective factors of physical and mental wellbeing for funeral operators through a qualitative and quantitative research design.
These factors may affect well-being and psychological physical discomfort, in particular in terms of the experience of burnout and vicarious trauma. Starting from this "mapping", it will be possible to understand which training and support activities should be implemented in order to improve the quality of the organisational lives of these workers and, consequently, the quality of a service that is very neglected culturally, despite being fundamental from a social point of view.
