TY - JOUR
T1 - A three-wave study of job resources, self-efficacy, and work engagement among Italian schoolteachers
AU - Simbula, Silvia
AU - Guglielmi, Dina
AU - Schaufeli, Wilmar B.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - By utilizing a three-wave longitudinal design, the present study tested the motivational process of the Job Demands-Resources model among Italian schoolteachers (N=104). Specifically, it aims to test how job resources, self-efficacy and work engagement are related over time. Results of structural equation modelling analysis showed that the model with reciprocal relationships between resources and work engagement exhibited the best fit with the data. Job resources and self-efficacy had a short- (4 months) and longer term (8 months) lagged effect on work engagement, but the reverse pattern was true as well: Work engagement had a short- and long-term lagged effect on job resources and self-efficacy. These findings suggest that is important to think in terms of reciprocity: Resourceful environments and self-efficacy beliefs mean engaged teachers, and vice versa.
AB - By utilizing a three-wave longitudinal design, the present study tested the motivational process of the Job Demands-Resources model among Italian schoolteachers (N=104). Specifically, it aims to test how job resources, self-efficacy and work engagement are related over time. Results of structural equation modelling analysis showed that the model with reciprocal relationships between resources and work engagement exhibited the best fit with the data. Job resources and self-efficacy had a short- (4 months) and longer term (8 months) lagged effect on work engagement, but the reverse pattern was true as well: Work engagement had a short- and long-term lagged effect on job resources and self-efficacy. These findings suggest that is important to think in terms of reciprocity: Resourceful environments and self-efficacy beliefs mean engaged teachers, and vice versa.
KW - Job resources
KW - Self-efficacy
KW - Teachers
KW - Three-wave longitudinal design
KW - Work engagement
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U2 - 10.1080/13594320903513916
DO - 10.1080/13594320903513916
M3 - Article
SN - 1359-432X
VL - 20
SP - 285
EP - 304
JO - European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
JF - European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
IS - 3
ER -