OBJECTIVES Although there have been studies linking personality to selected aspects of functioning at work, Polish literature reports a shortage of detailed analyses considering, e.g., specific professional groups or certain variables. The aim of our study was to explore the links between personality traits and emotional labor, work engagement and job satisfaction among service workers. MATER...

BACKGROUND Work engagement is a positive work-related state of fulfillment characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption. Previous studies have operationalized the construct through development of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale. Apart from the original three-factor 17-item version of the instrument (UWES-17), there exists a nine-item shortened revised version (UWES-9). PURPOSE The cur...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of psychological distress and its relationship with academic engagement (absorption, dedication and vigor), sex and degree among students from four public universities. METHOD A non-experimental,comparative correlational, quantitative investigation without intervention. STUDY POPULATION 1840 nursing and physical therapy students. The data collection too...

work engagement literature has been dominated by quantitative research methods. this article aims to study work engagement antecedents using mixed-method sequential explanatory design. this design starts with the collection and analysis of quantitative data followed by the subsequent collection and analysis of qualitative data. the qualitative phase of the study was designed to incorporate the ...

This study investigated the factor structure and factorial group and time invariance of the 17-item and 9-item versions of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES; Schaufeli et al. (2002b) Journal of Happiness Studies 3:71–92). Furthermore, the study explored the rank-order stability of work engagement. The data were drawn from five different studies (N = 9,404), including a three-year longitud...

This study aimed at analyzing the relationship between institutional trust, work engagement and performance of physical education teachers in the cities of Tehran Province. The research had a correlational design. The statistical population of the study was comprised of all physical education teachers in the cities of Tehran Province in 2019-20 school year (1497 individuals). Random sampling me...

The aim of this research is to explain the relationship between career satisfaction and work engagement variables in context public employees. For purpose, Utrecht Work Engagement Scale Career Satisfaction were applied 334 employees employed institutions Manisa. According findings obtained as a result analysis collected data, there positive correlation variable all its sub-dimensions (vigor, de...

Abstract Testing two competing hypotheses based on different theories (i.e., the theory of career mobility and social exchange theory), this study examines whether organizational size enhances or buffers negative relationship between perceived overqualification having more education qualifications, skills, and/or experience than one’s job requires) work engagement (a positive, affective-motivat...