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Deriving benefits from stressful events: the role of engagement in meaningful work and hardiness.
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This paper explored the relationship between the meaningfulness of work, personality hardiness, and deriving long-term benefits from a stressful event, and found that personalityhardiness was associated with being engaged in meaningful work during the deployment, which was strongly associated with deriving benefits from the deployment months after it was over.Abstract:
This research explored the relationship between the meaningfulness of work, personality hardiness, and deriving long-term benefits from a stressful event. U.S. soldiers participating in a peacekeeping mission to Bosnia completed measures assessing the meaning of their work and personality hardiness midway through a 1-year deployment (mid-deployment) and completed a measure of deriving benefits from the deployment 4-5 months after it was over (postdeployment). Structural equation modeling revealed that personality hardiness was associated with being engaged in meaningful work during the deployment, which was strongly associated with deriving benefits from the deployment months after it was over. Enriching experiences were also associated with deriving benefits from the deployment. Discussion focuses on the linkages between personality processes, meaningful work, and deriving benefits from a stressful experience.read more
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The psychological conditions of meaningfulness, safety and availability and the engagement of the human spirit at work
TL;DR: A study in a U.S. midwestern insurance company explored the determinants and mediating effects of three psychological conditions (meaningfulness, safety and availability) on employees' engagement in their work as discussed by the authors.
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Linking job demands and resources to employee engagement and burnout: A theoretical extension and meta-analytic test.
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Recovery, Work Engagement, and Proactive Behavior: A New Look at the Interface Between Nonwork and Work
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A meta-analytic review of benefit finding and growth.
TL;DR: Benefit finding was related to less depression and more positive well-being but also more intrusive and avoidant thoughts about the stressor and was unrelated to anxiety, global distress, quality of life, and subjective reports of physical health.
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Relational Job Design and the Motivation to Make a Prosocial Difference
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a model of relational job design to describe how jobs spark the motivation to make a prosocial difference, and how this motivation affects employees' actions and identities.
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Stressful life events, personality, and health: an inquiry into hardiness.
TL;DR: Personality was studied as a conditioner of the effects of stressful life events on illness onset to support the prediction that high stress/low illness executives show, by comparison with high Stress/high illness executives, more hardiness.