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Subjective Happiness and Compassion Are Enough to Increase Teachers’ Work Engagement?
The present quantitative multi-trait cross-sectional study aims to gain a better understanding of the network of relationship between subjective happiness, compassion, levels of work engagement, and proactive strategies (self- and co-regulation) in a sample of teachers. Participants were 187 full-ti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6811656/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31681081 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02268 |
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author | De Stasio, Simona Fiorilli, Caterina Benevene, Paula Boldrini, Francesca Ragni, Benedetta Pepe, Alessandro Maldonado Briegas, Juan José |
author_facet | De Stasio, Simona Fiorilli, Caterina Benevene, Paula Boldrini, Francesca Ragni, Benedetta Pepe, Alessandro Maldonado Briegas, Juan José |
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description | The present quantitative multi-trait cross-sectional study aims to gain a better understanding of the network of relationship between subjective happiness, compassion, levels of work engagement, and proactive strategies (self- and co-regulation) in a sample of teachers. Participants were 187 full-time in-service teachers (89% female; age M = 48.5; SD = 7.88) from Rome, Italy. We hypothesized that subjective happiness and compassion of early childhood teachers would be related with work engagement in such a way that subjective happiness would promote the engagement of teachers. In a similar fashion, we theorized that subjective happiness would be positively related to self- and co-regulation strategies and that proactive strategies would be in turn associated to work engagement. As expected, the results revealed that subjective happiness and compassion showed effects on work engagement and that this association among constructs was mediated by the role of proactive strategies (β = 0.22, p < 0.001; β = 0.37, p < 0.001, respectively). Proactive strategies also have a significant direct effect on work engagement (β = 0.56, p < 0.001). The study’s findings suggest the importance of investing in the quality of the working environment. |
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spelling | pubmed-68116562019-11-01 Subjective Happiness and Compassion Are Enough to Increase Teachers’ Work Engagement? De Stasio, Simona Fiorilli, Caterina Benevene, Paula Boldrini, Francesca Ragni, Benedetta Pepe, Alessandro Maldonado Briegas, Juan José Front Psychol Psychology The present quantitative multi-trait cross-sectional study aims to gain a better understanding of the network of relationship between subjective happiness, compassion, levels of work engagement, and proactive strategies (self- and co-regulation) in a sample of teachers. Participants were 187 full-time in-service teachers (89% female; age M = 48.5; SD = 7.88) from Rome, Italy. We hypothesized that subjective happiness and compassion of early childhood teachers would be related with work engagement in such a way that subjective happiness would promote the engagement of teachers. In a similar fashion, we theorized that subjective happiness would be positively related to self- and co-regulation strategies and that proactive strategies would be in turn associated to work engagement. As expected, the results revealed that subjective happiness and compassion showed effects on work engagement and that this association among constructs was mediated by the role of proactive strategies (β = 0.22, p < 0.001; β = 0.37, p < 0.001, respectively). Proactive strategies also have a significant direct effect on work engagement (β = 0.56, p < 0.001). The study’s findings suggest the importance of investing in the quality of the working environment. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6811656/ /pubmed/31681081 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02268 Text en Copyright © 2019 De Stasio, Fiorilli, Benevene, Boldrini, Ragni, Pepe and Maldonado Briegas. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology De Stasio, Simona Fiorilli, Caterina Benevene, Paula Boldrini, Francesca Ragni, Benedetta Pepe, Alessandro Maldonado Briegas, Juan José Subjective Happiness and Compassion Are Enough to Increase Teachers’ Work Engagement? |
title | Subjective Happiness and Compassion Are Enough to Increase Teachers’ Work Engagement? |
title_full | Subjective Happiness and Compassion Are Enough to Increase Teachers’ Work Engagement? |
title_fullStr | Subjective Happiness and Compassion Are Enough to Increase Teachers’ Work Engagement? |
title_full_unstemmed | Subjective Happiness and Compassion Are Enough to Increase Teachers’ Work Engagement? |
title_short | Subjective Happiness and Compassion Are Enough to Increase Teachers’ Work Engagement? |
title_sort | subjective happiness and compassion are enough to increase teachers’ work engagement? |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6811656/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31681081 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02268 |
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