scholarly journals Job Demands and Negative Outcomes after the Lockdown: The Moderating Role of Stigma towards Italian Supermarket Workers

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7507
Author(s):  
Tiziana Ramaci ◽  
Stefano Pagliaro ◽  
Manuel Teresi ◽  
Massimiliano Barattucci
Keyword(s):  
Social Stigma ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Work Outcomes ◽  
Work Demands ◽  
Professional Quality ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

The Job Demands-Resources model hypothesises that some variables (especially personal and social resources/threats) moderate the relationship between job demands and work outcomes. Based on this model, in this study we examine the role of stigma towards customers as a moderator of the relationship between job demands and a series of work outcomes: that is, fatigue, burnout, and satisfaction. We advance that the relationships between work demands and outcomes should be influenced by the employee’s perceptions regarding resources and constraint. In particular, we hypothesised that social stigma towards customers can represent a reliable moderating variable. Hypotheses were tested among 308 Italian supermarket workers in five supermarkets in the same chain, just after the end of the Italian lockdown caused by COVID-19. Results showed that stigma towards customers moderates the relationship between job demands and the consequences on the professional quality of life. The implications of these findings for the JD-R model are discussed.

Close social relationships and loneliness: the role of subjective age

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naama Spitzer ◽  
Dikla Segel-Karpas ◽  
Yuval Palgi
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Subjective Age ◽  
Perceptions Of Aging ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

Abstract Loneliness is considered a major issue, often negatively influencing the quality of life of individuals of all ages, and of older adults, in particular. The aims of this study are: (1) to assess the association between close social relationships and loneliness; and (2) to examine the moderating role of subjective age in this association. Married or cohabiting community-dwelling Israelis in the second half of life (N = 360) were interviewed and reported on their close social relationships, their level of loneliness, and their subjective age. The number of close social relationships was found to have a negative relationship with loneliness. Moreover, subjective age was found to moderate the relationship between close social relationships and loneliness, such that the association was weaker for those with older subjective age. Those with older subjective age are often not able to benefit from close social relationships to alleviate loneliness as much as their younger-subjective-age counterparts. Efforts to address older adults’ loneliness should consider focusing on older adults’ perceptions of aging.

scholarly journals Cognitive Job Demands, Presenteeism and Procrastination: The Moderating Role of Psychological Capital

sjesr ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-203
Author(s):  
Dr. Nosheen Sarwat ◽  
Dr. Raza Ali ◽  
Dr. Tariq Iqbal Khan
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Personal Resource ◽  
Basic Purpose ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Reducing Stress ◽  
Moderating Role

Using the job-demands resource theory, the basic purpose of this article was to study the relationship between cognitive job demands, stress-related presenteeism, and procrastination. Stress-related Presenteeism is a kind of psychological state in which individuals are present at work but due to stress are not able to expend their full energies at work and remain distracted. We also tested for the combined effect of psychological capital and cognitive job demands on stress-related presenteeism. Data were collected from 192 full-time working professionals and analyzed using step-wise regression and bootstrapping. Results revealed that individuals with strenuous job demands were facing stress-related presenteeism and were involved in procrastination. Findings also supported the moderating role of psychological capital as an effective personal resource in reducing stress-related presenteeism. In the end implications for practice have been discussed.

scholarly journals The moderating role of personal resources in the relationship between job demands and work engagement

Psihologija ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 7-7
Author(s):  
I-Shuo Chen
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Personal Resources ◽  
Food Chains ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

This study aimed to examine the role of personal resources in the job demands- resources (JD-R) model of work engagement. We hypothesized that personal resources weaken the negative impact of job demands on work engagement. The hypothesis was examined using a sample of employees (N = 58) from multiple branches of four international fast-food chains based in Ireland and Taiwan who completed questionnaires focused on personal resources, job demands and work engagement over 7 consecutive workdays (N = 58

scholarly journals Job enlargement, job crafting and the moderating role of self-competence

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 318-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Domenico Berdicchia ◽  
Francesco Nicolli ◽  
Giovanni Masino
Keyword(s):  
Social Resources ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Source Study ◽  
Retail Company ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between job enlargement and some specific job crafting behaviors and to analyze the moderating role of self-competence. Design/methodology/approach – Data were gathered from 158 workers in a large retail company and analyzed through a regression methodology. Findings – Job enlargement is positively related to specific job crafting behaviors, such as increasing structural and social resources. Self-competence does not moderate the relationship between job enlargement and increasing structural resources; however, it does negatively moderate the relationship between job enlargement and increasing social resources. Research limitations/implications – This is a cross-sectional, single source study. Practical/implications – Organizations may implement job design policies aimed at facilitating the way workers proactively craft their jobs (increasing social and structural resources) by promoting a collaborative organizational culture and decreasing the social costs of job crafting initiatives. Originality/value – This study clarifies the role of contextual and personal antecedents to job crafting. More specifically, it shows that enlarged jobs and employees’ level of self-competence may significantly influence employees’ job crafting in the workplace.

Responses to job demands: moderating role of worker cooperatives

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 346-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhokeun Park
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Search Behavior ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Job Search Behavior ◽  
Worker Cooperatives ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating role of organizational commitment in the relationship between job demands and job search behavior. The study also explores the moderating role of worker cooperatives in the relationship between job demands and organizational commitment. There is little extant research on the relationships of job demands with employee behaviors, and the roles of worker cooperatives in those relationships. Design/methodology/approach Using the multi-level moderated mediation model, this study analyzed surveys conducted in capitalist firms and worker cooperatives in the metropolitan area of Seoul in 2016. Findings This study provided evidence that organizational commitment mediated the relationship between job demands and job search behavior in the total sample. The findings revealed that worker cooperatives moderated the relationship between job demands and organizational commitment. In other words, while the negative relationship between job demands and organizational commitment was significant in capitalist firms, it was not maintained in worker cooperatives. Research limitations/implications This study provides implications on how job demands are related to job search behavior, and how worker cooperatives may alleviate the adverse effects of job demands on employee attitudes and behaviors. A potential limitation of the present study is that individual-level variables were measured by self-reports. Originality/value While previous studies on the JDR model have examined the interaction between job demands and individual levels of resources, the current study investigated the interaction between job demands and organizational levels of resources.

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