Edwin J. Boezeman’s research while affiliated with Leiden University and other places

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Publications (25)


Predictors of turnover amongst volunteers: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
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August 2023

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Journal of Organizational Behavior

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Volunteers represent a global workforce equivalent to 61 million full‐time workers. A significant decline in volunteering has highlighted the urgency to better understand and address turnover amongst volunteers. To address this, we conducted a systematic review and meta‐analysis of turnover amongst volunteers. We also examined whether staying or leaving has different predictors. The meta‐analysis integrated and synthesized 117 studies, encompassing 1104 effect sizes across 55 335 volunteer workers, to identify and quantify relationships between turnover and the broad range of variables that have been examined in the volunteer work domain. Amongst the strongest predictors of volunteer turnover were attitudinal variables, in particular, job satisfaction (ρ = −.58), affective commitment (ρ = −.58), engagement (ρ = −.54) and organizational commitment (ρ = −.54). Contextual variables that showed the largest effects included communication (ρ = .62), organizational support (ρ = −.61) and the quality of the relationship between volunteers and their leader (leader‐member exchange, ρ = −.55). We synthesize our findings into an integrative framework delineating the predictors of volunteer turnover. In doing so, we extend turnover research to consider non‐remunerated work contexts and provide a basis for developing turnover theory that is responsive to the unique experience of volunteers.

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Figure 1: Flowchart. a The webpages of the online surveys were visited 7 206 times but not all visitors completed the survey. We used incomplete surveys with information about country, any KRT modality reported, age and work status.
Figure 2: Comparison of work status of KRT patients, dialysis patients and KTRs from seven European countries with at least 150 respondents. The category 'Other' includes students and housewives/house husbands. HR, Croatia; DK, Denmark; FR, France; GR, Greece; HU, Hungary; RU, Russia; SE, Sweden.
Work status and work ability of patients receiving kidney replacement therapy: Results from a European survey

October 2021

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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Background: Employment is important for the quality of life and financial security of patients of working age receiving kidney replacement therapy (KRT). We aimed to examine self-reported work status and general, physical and mental work ability, and to determine associations between demographic, disease-related, work-related, and macro-economic factors and employment. . Methods: Europeans from 37 countries, aged 19-65 years, treated with dialysis or kidney transplantation, filled out the web-based or paper-based cross-sectional EDITH kidney patient survey between November 2017 and January 2019. We performed descriptive analyses and multivariable generalized logistic mixed models. Results: Of the 3 544 patients, 36.5% were employed and working (25.8% of dialysis patients, 53.9% of kidney transplant recipients [KTRs]). Mean general work ability was 5.5 out of 10 (dialysis: 4.8, KTRs: 6.5). Non-working patients (all: 4.1, dialysis: 3.9, KTRs: 4.7) scored lower than working patients (all: 7.7, dialysis 7.3, KTRs: 8.0). Working dialysis patients scored lower on physical and mental work ability (7.1 and 8.1) than working KTRs (8.0 and 8.4, p < 0.001). Impaired physical work ability (42.7%) was more prevalent than impaired mental work ability (26.7%). Male sex, age 40-49 years, higher education, home dialysis or kidney transplantation as current treatment, treatment history including kidney transplantation, absence of diabetes mellitus, better general work ability, and higher country GDP were positively associated with employment (p < 0.05). Conclusions: Low employment rates and impaired work ability were prevalent among European patients receiving KRT. Demographic, disease-related, work-related, and macro-economic factors were associated with employment.


Family involvement on nursing wards and the role conflicts experienced by surgical nurses: A multicentre cross‐sectional study

September 2021

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Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

Objective To examine among surgical nurses whether work–role conflict, work–role ambiguity, respect, distress and trust in collaboration due to interactions with family caregivers in the nursing ward are associated with the quality of contact with patients and their families. Methods A multicentre cross-sectional study was conducted between January and March 2020. Surgical nurses completed a questionnaire recording work–role conflict, work–role ambiguity, sense of respect, distress, trust in collaboration and quality of contact with patients and their families. Data were analysed using correlation analysis, multiple linear regression analysis and mediation regression analysis. Results A total of 135 nurses completed the questionnaire. The correlation analysis showed significant correlations between nurses’ impaired quality of contact with patients and their families and nurses’ work–role conflicts, work–role ambiguity, trust in collaboration and distress (p < 0.05). The multiple regression analyses corroborated that work–role conflict and distress were significantly and positively associated with impaired quality of contact. Furthermore, mediation regression analysis showed that work–role conflict was associated indirectly and significantly with quality of contact through distress. Conclusion Work–role conflict due to having family caregivers involved in the care of hospitalised patients is significantly associated with nurses’ distress and quality of contact with patients and their families.


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Correlations Between SICQ-Coping and ICU Patients' Mental HRQoL
SICQ Coping and the Health-Related Quality of Life and Recovery of Critically Ill ICU Patients A Prospective Cohort Study

June 2021

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Chest

Background: The coping styles of the Sickness Insight in Coping Questionnaire (SICQ; positivism, redefinition, toughness, fighting spirit, non-acceptance) may affect the health and recovery of hospitalized critically ill patients. Research question: Do the SICQ coping styles of hospitalized critically ill patients relate to the patients´ health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and recovery? Study design and methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted in a single university-affiliated Dutch hospital. Participants were critically ill adult patients admitted to a mixed medical-surgical ICU (start: n = 417; pre-ICU: n = 391; hospital discharge: n = 350; 3 months follow-up: n = 318; 6 months follow-up: n = 308; 12 months follow-up: n = 285). Coping was recorded with the SICQ pre-ICU and at discharge. HRQoL was measured with the SF-12 pre-ICU, at discharge, and 3, 6, and 12 months after discharge. Indicators of recovery were ICU and hospital length of stay, discharge disposition, and mortality. Correlation and regression analyses were used for data analysis. Results: Positivism (r = .28 - .51), fighting spirit (r = .14 - .35), and redefinition (r = .12 - .23) associated significantly (P < .05) with mental HRQoL after discharge. Further, positivism associated positively (P < .01) with physical HRQoL (r = .17 - .26) after discharge. Increase in positivism (r = .13), redefinition (r = .13), and toughness (r = .13), across the period of hospitalization associated positively (P ≤ .05) with mental HRQoL at discharge. Pre-ICU positivism associated with hospital length of stay (ρ = -.21, P ≤ .05) and hazard for death (HR = 0.57, P < .01), and had unidirectional effect on mental HRQoL (β = .30, P < .001). Interpretation: SICQ coping is associated with long-term mental HRQoL, hospital length of stay, and hazard for death among hospitalized critically ill patients.


The association of subjective fit perceptions, distress, emotional exhaustion, and work engagement, with work functioning problems: A cross-sectional study conducted among young construction project management professionals

October 2020

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Journal of Occupational Health

Objectives: To investigate the association of subjective fit perceptions, distress, emotional exhaustion, and work engagement, with work functioning, among young construction project management professionals (CPMPs). Methods: The research had a cross-sectional design. Dutch young CPMPs (142 participants, age range: 20 to 30 years of age) completed a questionnaire containing general questions recording their demographic characteristics, and instruments recording the following concepts: perceived person-organization fit, perceived person-job fit (including demands-abilities fit and needs-supplies fit), distress, emotional exhaustion, work engagement, and work functioning. Correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis were used to examine the association of fit perceptions, distress, emotional exhaustion, and work engagement, with work functioning. Results: The correlation analysis indicated that person-organization fit, needs-supplies fit, distress, emotional exhaustion, and work engagement correlated significantly with work functioning problems of young CPMPs. The multiple regression analyses corroborated that needs-supplies fit, distress, and emotional exhaustion related significantly to the work functioning problems of young CPMPs, with the standardized regression coefficients (β) of -0.28, 0.52, and 0.38 (P < .01), respectively. Other than would be expected, the multiple regression analyses also made clear that work engagement does not significantly relate to work functioning problems beyond distress and emotional exhaustion. Conclusions: Incongruence between personal needs and job supplies, psychological distress, and emotional exhaustion are central correlates of the work functioning problems of young CPMPs. Occupational health professionals can use these insights to help young CPMPs at work.


Approach of item generation and content validity evaluation
Proposal to extend the PROMIS® item bank v2.0 ‘Ability to Participate in Social Roles and Activities’: item generation and content validity

October 2020

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Quality of Life Research

Purpose: Previous research indicated that the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) item bank v2.0 'Ability to Participate in Social Roles and Activities' may miss subdomains of social participation. The purpose of this study was to generate items for these missing subdomains and to evaluate their content validity. Methods: A three-step approach was followed: (1) Item generation for 16 International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health subdomains currently not covered by the item bank; (2) Evaluation of content validity of generated items through expert review (n = 20) and think-aloud interviews with a purposeful sample of people with and without (chronic) health conditions (n = 10), to assess item comprehensibility, relevance, and comprehensiveness; and 3) Item revision based on the results of step 2, in a consensus procedure. Results: First, 48 items were generated. Second, overall, content experts indicated that the generated items were relevant. Furthermore, based on experts' responses, items were simplified and 'participation in social media' was identified as an important additional subdomain of social participation. Additionally, 'participating in various social roles simultaneously' was identified as a missing item. Based on the responses of the interviewed adults items were simplified. Third, in total 17 items, covering 17 subdomains, were proposed to be added to the original item bank. Discussion: The relevance, comprehensibility and comprehensiveness of the 17 proposed items were supported. Whether the proposed extension of the item bank leads to better psychometric properties of the item bank should be tested in a large-scale field study.



Do new-generation construction professionals be provided what they desire at work? A study on work values and supplies–values fit

June 2020

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Engineering Construction & Architectural Management

Purpose The declining attractiveness of construction industry to the new-generation onsite construction professionals (OCPs) in China can be the result of insufficient supply of what they desire at work. There is a lack of studies that make clear the work values of this cohort and the fit between their work value preferences and job supplies. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to address this issue. Design/methodology/approach This study focused on Chinese new-generation OCPs. Work values and job supplies were measured by two rounds of questionnaire surveys. Factor analysis was implemented to identify work value types. Paired samples t-test, independent samples t-test and one-way ANOVA were performed to figure out work value preferences and degree of supplies–values (S-V) fit and compare them across subgroups. Findings Intrinsic, “good time”, work-team-related, altruistic/prestigious and extrinsic work value types were identified. Chinese new-generation OCPs most valued work-team-related and intrinsic work aspects, while significant insufficient supply was relevant to intrinsic, extrinsic and “good time” aspects. Work value preferences and S-V fit showed significant differences among subgroups of gender, growth background, work rank and project type. Practical implications The results provide insights for construction companies to practice work-value-based human resource management toward new-generation OCPs and make targeted measures to address the misfit between supplies and values experienced by these OCPs. Originality/value This study for the first time examined work values of Chinese new-generation OCPs. It opens a new perspective for research based on S-V fit theory that focused on industry level. The effects of demographic and professional variables on the work values and the degree of S-V fit were revealed. This study thus contributes to the extant literature of work values and S-V fit.


A qualitative study investigating the meaning of participation to improve the measurement of this construct

August 2019

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Quality of Life Research

Purpose The purpose of this study was to improve the measurement of participation. Research questions were as follows: (1) What constitutes participation according to adults? (2) Do they mention participation subdomains that are not covered in the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) item bank “Ability to Participate in Social Roles and Activities”? Methods Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 46 adults from the general population. Interviews were thematically analysed using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as conceptual framework. Thereafter, assigned codes were compared to PROMIS item bank. Results Participants mentioned a variety of participation subdomains that were meaningful to them, such as socializing and employment. All subdomains could be classified into the ICF. The following subdomains were not covered by the PROMIS item bank: acquisition of necessities, education life, economic life, community life, and religion and spirituality. Also a distinction between remunerative (i.e. paid) and non-remunerative (i.e. unpaid) employment, and domestic life was missing. Several ICF sub-codes were not mentioned, such as ceremonies. Conclusions Many participation subdomains were mentioned to be meaningful. As several of these subdomains are not covered in the PROMIS item bank, it may benefit from extension with new (patient-)reported subdomains of participation.


Citations (21)


... A recent systematic review and meta-analysis of the volunteer turnover literature found only three studies reporting positive correlations between any predictors studied and volunteering turnover (Forner et al., 2024). However, these studies are only suggestive and suffer from limitations. ...

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The Latent Classes of the Volunteer Satisfaction Index and Volunteering during the Pandemic in Singapore
Predictors of turnover amongst volunteers: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Journal of Organizational Behavior

... The physical and mental activity scores decrease with increasing degree of disability [20]. Our results, in agreement with previous studies, show that older patients with lower level of education have weak ability to work [21]. Generally, the possibility of employment in older patients is low [17,19,22,23], With increasing age, the possibility of reducing the function of regulatory systems, pathologic conditions, and chronic diseases increases, so it is natural to expect a decrease in the ability to work of older patients [6]. ...

Work status and work ability of patients receiving kidney replacement therapy: Results from a European survey

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

... As a result, nurses found themselves doing overlapping tasks, receiving missing and receiving confusing treatment information (e.g. COVID-19 patient treatment and care information, roles in multidisciplinary teams, unclear instructions from managers) [20][21][22]. Previous research has found that role ambiguity has a negative impact on an individual's physical and psychological wellbeing and is negatively associated with work attitudes and behaviours (such as work alienation, organizational commitment), while being positively associated with job dissatisfaction [23][24][25][26]. ...

Family involvement on nursing wards and the role conflicts experienced by surgical nurses: A multicentre cross‐sectional study

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

... As recovery progresses, both survivors and caregivers will acquire some adaptable coping mechanisms. For example, positivism, fighting spirit, and redefinition have been reported to develop longitudinally as approachoriented coping strategies after patients are transferred out of ICU [6]. Conversely, in certain situations, avoidant and negative coping mechanisms may take hold [7]. ...

SICQ Coping and the Health-Related Quality of Life and Recovery of Critically Ill ICU Patients A Prospective Cohort Study

Chest

... The topic under investigation is of great relevance, especially in the context of fast changing work environments (due to innovations and globalization) and lack of personal in many professions, that include high mental and emotional demands, such as health care [36]. Previous research has demonstrated several negative effects associated with occupational misfit, such as job and life satisfaction [12], employee work attitudes [37], emotional exhaustion, and distress [38]. Only a few studies focused on health, specifically mental health outcomes. ...

The association of subjective fit perceptions, distress, emotional exhaustion, and work engagement, with work functioning problems: A cross-sectional study conducted among young construction project management professionals

Journal of Occupational Health

... The industry has long faced staff shortages and employee turnover issues (Chih et al. 2016, Nawaz Khan et al. 2020, Bigelow et al. 2021) which have been exacerbated by the global Covid-19 pandemic (Ministry of Business 2021, Jeon et al. 2022). At the same time, the industry has not been a favorable destination for job seekers (Song et al. 2020) due to the lack of innovation (Wilkinson et al. 2017), gender bias, low work-life balance (Morello et al. 2018), and harsh working conditions (Ling and Toh 2014). ...

Do new-generation construction professionals be provided what they desire at work? A study on work values and supplies–values fit
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  • June 2020

Engineering Construction & Architectural Management

... Also, it was suggested that the item bank may lack a distinction between engagement in remunerative (i.e., compensated) and non-remunerative (i.e., uncompensated) employment, and domestic life activities. As a solution, van Leeuwen et al. [32] proposed to add 17 items to the PROMIS-APSRA item bank (see Table 2). These additional items were generated by means of a three-step approach: (1) Item generation for 16 ICF subdomains currently not covered by the item bank; (2) Evaluation of content validity through expert review and think-aloud interviews; and (3) Item revision in a consensus procedure, based on the results of step 2 [32]. ...

Proposal to extend the PROMIS® item bank v2.0 ‘Ability to Participate in Social Roles and Activities’: item generation and content validity

Quality of Life Research

... While the importance of APSRA seems clear, the definition and operationalization of this construct is complex. Therefore, it is important to develop valid and reliable measures of APSRA that capture its diversity and specificity across different groups and settings [12][13][14]. An important contribution toward this objective has been made by the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS). ...

A qualitative study investigating the meaning of participation to improve the measurement of this construct

Quality of Life Research

... This study found a negative relationship between workplace social inclusion and turnover intention which was stronger for older employees than for younger employees. These findings are in line with social exchange theory (Blau, 1964); employees who feel belongingness and acceptance are likely to reciprocate with loyalty, manifested in reduced turnover intention (Jansen et al., 2017;Sahin et al., 2019). The different effects for older vs. younger employees are consistent with the lifespan perspective regarding differential preferences. ...

Looking Beyond Our Similarities: How Perceived (In)Visible Dissimilarity Relates to Feelings of Inclusion at Work

... These interventions use different approaches, such as respite care, psychosocial support (either in group or individual), education/skill-based interventions, assistive technology, or multicomponent interventions. [50][51][52][53][54][55] However, often the family caregivers have to take the initiative themselves, while our findings clearly show that informal caregivers will rarely act proactive in this. Therefore, it is important to, as a care professional, proactively inform the informal caregiver about their options for support and offer a tailor-made, personal approach with enough room to participate in the care process when this is preferred by the informal caregiver. ...

An intervention that reduces stress in people who combine work with informal care: Randomized controlled trial results
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  • March 2018

The European Journal of Public Health