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Musculoskeletal disorders among preschool teachers: analyzing the relationships among relational demands, work meaning, and intention to leave the job
BACKGROUND: Based on the conservation of resource (COR) theory by Hobfoll, the aim of the present study was to test whether the relationships among relational demands, work meaning, and intention to leave vary as a function of the presence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). METHOD: The study was c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5964727/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29788945 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-018-2081-z |
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author | Converso, Daniela Viotti, Sara Sottimano, Ilaria Cascio, Vincenza Guidetti, Gloria |
author_facet | Converso, Daniela Viotti, Sara Sottimano, Ilaria Cascio, Vincenza Guidetti, Gloria |
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description | BACKGROUND: Based on the conservation of resource (COR) theory by Hobfoll, the aim of the present study was to test whether the relationships among relational demands, work meaning, and intention to leave vary as a function of the presence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). METHOD: The study was cross-sectional and non-randomized. Analyses were carried out on a dataset consisting of 429 preschool teachers, who filled out a self-report questionnaire. Of them, 238 reported a MSD diagnosis and 191 were free form MSDs. RESULTS: As expected, among those who reported MSDs, relational demands were significantly associated to intention to leave, and this relationship was mediated by work meaning; moreover, among those free from MSDs, no significant paths among the three variables were found. CONCLUSION: In general, results showed that suffering from MSDs impairs workers’ ability to face to relational demands, thus activating a spiral that encompasses diminished work meaning and intention to leave. Practical implications of results will be discussed in the paper. |
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spelling | pubmed-59647272018-05-24 Musculoskeletal disorders among preschool teachers: analyzing the relationships among relational demands, work meaning, and intention to leave the job Converso, Daniela Viotti, Sara Sottimano, Ilaria Cascio, Vincenza Guidetti, Gloria BMC Musculoskelet Disord Research Article BACKGROUND: Based on the conservation of resource (COR) theory by Hobfoll, the aim of the present study was to test whether the relationships among relational demands, work meaning, and intention to leave vary as a function of the presence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). METHOD: The study was cross-sectional and non-randomized. Analyses were carried out on a dataset consisting of 429 preschool teachers, who filled out a self-report questionnaire. Of them, 238 reported a MSD diagnosis and 191 were free form MSDs. RESULTS: As expected, among those who reported MSDs, relational demands were significantly associated to intention to leave, and this relationship was mediated by work meaning; moreover, among those free from MSDs, no significant paths among the three variables were found. CONCLUSION: In general, results showed that suffering from MSDs impairs workers’ ability to face to relational demands, thus activating a spiral that encompasses diminished work meaning and intention to leave. Practical implications of results will be discussed in the paper. BioMed Central 2018-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5964727/ /pubmed/29788945 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-018-2081-z Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Converso, Daniela Viotti, Sara Sottimano, Ilaria Cascio, Vincenza Guidetti, Gloria Musculoskeletal disorders among preschool teachers: analyzing the relationships among relational demands, work meaning, and intention to leave the job |
title | Musculoskeletal disorders among preschool teachers: analyzing the relationships among relational demands, work meaning, and intention to leave the job |
title_full | Musculoskeletal disorders among preschool teachers: analyzing the relationships among relational demands, work meaning, and intention to leave the job |
title_fullStr | Musculoskeletal disorders among preschool teachers: analyzing the relationships among relational demands, work meaning, and intention to leave the job |
title_full_unstemmed | Musculoskeletal disorders among preschool teachers: analyzing the relationships among relational demands, work meaning, and intention to leave the job |
title_short | Musculoskeletal disorders among preschool teachers: analyzing the relationships among relational demands, work meaning, and intention to leave the job |
title_sort | musculoskeletal disorders among preschool teachers: analyzing the relationships among relational demands, work meaning, and intention to leave the job |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5964727/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29788945 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-018-2081-z |
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