Satisfaction with Life in Workers: A Chained Mediation Model Investigating the Roles of Resilience, Career Adaptability, Self-efficacy, and Years of Education

Overview

Journal Front Psychol

Date 2022 Oct 10

PMID 36211910

Authors

Eleonora Topino

Andrea Svicher

Annamaria Di Fabio

Alessio Gori

Affiliations

Soon will be listed here.

Abstract

Satisfaction with life is a core dimension of well-being that can be of great importance in the workplace, in light of the close link between worker health and organizational success highlighted by the perspective of healthy organizations. This study aimed at analyzing the factors associated with satisfaction with life, focusing on the role of resilience, career adaptability, self-efficacy, and years of education. A sample of 315 workers (67% women; M = 34.84 years, = 12.39) filled out the Satisfaction with Life Scale, General Self-Efficacy Scale, Career Adapt-Abilities Scale, the 10-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, and a demographic questionnaire. Data were analyzed by implementing a chained mediation model. Results showed a significant and positive relationship between resilience and satisfaction with life, partially moderated by the chained effect of career adaptability and self-efficacy, controlling for education. When inserted as a covariate, education showed a significant and negative association with satisfaction with life. Such findings contribute to enriching the field of research on the factors that contribute to the well-being of workers and may have important practical implications for interventions in organizations.

References

Di Fabio A, Kenny M . From Decent Work to Decent Lives: Positive Self and Relational Management (PS&RM) in the Twenty-First Century. Front Psychol. 2016; 7:361. PMC: 4804222. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00361. View

Diener E, Emmons R, Larsen R, Griffin S . The Satisfaction With Life Scale. J Pers Assess. 1985; 49(1):71-5. DOI: 10.1207/s15327752jpa4901_13. View

Di Fabio A, Gori A . Assessing Workplace Relational Civility (WRC) with a New Multidimensional "Mirror" Measure. Front Psychol. 2016; 7:890. PMC: 4913104. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00890. View

Gori A, Topino E, Sette A, Cramer H . Mental health outcomes in patients with cancer diagnosis: Data showing the influence of resilience and coping strategies on post-traumatic growth and post-traumatic symptoms. Data Brief. 2021; 34:106667. PMC: 7773862. DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.106667. View

Johnson G, Johnson W . Perceived overqualification and dimensions of job satisfaction: a longitudinal analysis. J Psychol. 2000; 134(5):537-55. DOI: 10.1080/00223980009598235. View

Di Fabio A, Saklofske D . The relationship of compassion and self-compassion with personality and emotional intelligence. Pers Individ Dif. 2020; 169:110109. PMC: 7211602. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110109. View

Wang Q, Sun W, Wu H . Associations between academic burnout, resilience and life satisfaction among medical students: a three-wave longitudinal study. BMC Med Educ. 2022; 22(1):248. PMC: 8980514. DOI: 10.1186/s12909-022-03326-6. View

Bracke P, Pattyn E, von dem Knesebeck O . Overeducation and depressive symptoms: diminishing mental health returns to education. Sociol Health Illn. 2013; 35(8):1242-59. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.12039. View

Bernales-Turpo D, Quispe-Velasquez R, Flores-Ticona D, Saintila J, Mamani P, Huancahuire-Vega S . Burnout, Professional Self-Efficacy, and Life Satisfaction as Predictors of Job Performance in Health Care Workers: The Mediating Role of Work Engagement. J Prim Care Community Health. 2022; 13:21501319221101845. PMC: 9125607. DOI: 10.1177/21501319221101845. View

10.

Powdthavee N, Lekfuangfu W, Wooden M . What's the good of education on our overall quality of life? A simultaneous equation model of education and life satisfaction for Australia. J Behav Exp Econ. 2017; 54:10-21. PMC: 5510659. DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2014.11.002. View

11.

Duffy R, Allan B, England J, Blustein D, Autin K, Douglass R . The development and initial validation of the Decent Work Scale. J Couns Psychol. 2017; 64(2):206-221. DOI: 10.1037/cou0000191. View

12.

Di Fabio A, Svicher A, Gori A . Occupational Fatigue: Relationship With Personality Traits and Decent Work. Front Psychol. 2021; 12:742809. PMC: 8455940. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.742809. View

13.

Gori A, Topino E . Predisposition to Change Is Linked to Job Satisfaction: Assessing the Mediation Roles of Workplace Relation Civility and Insight. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020; 17(6). PMC: 7143367. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17062141. View

14.

Lee T, Ko Y . Effects of self-efficacy, affectivity and collective efficacy on nursing performance of hospital nurses. J Adv Nurs. 2010; 66(4):839-48. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2009.05244.x. View

15.

Argan M, Mersin S . Life satisfaction, life quality, and leisure satisfaction in health professionals. Perspect Psychiatr Care. 2020; 57(2):660-666. DOI: 10.1111/ppc.12592. View

16.

Gori A, Topino E, Sette A, Cramer H . Pathways to post-traumatic growth in cancer patients: moderated mediation and single mediation analyses with resilience, personality, and coping strategies. J Affect Disord. 2020; 279:692-700. DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.10.044. View

17.

Egede L, Acierno R, Knapp R, Walker R, Payne E, Frueh B . Psychotherapy for Depression in Older Veterans Via Telemedicine: Effect on Quality of Life, Satisfaction, Treatment Credibility, and Service Delivery Perception. J Clin Psychiatry. 2016; 77(12):1704-1711. DOI: 10.4088/JCP.16m10951. View

18.

Bandura A . Self-efficacy: toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Psychol Rev. 1977; 84(2):191-215. DOI: 10.1037//0033-295x.84.2.191. View

19.

Diener E, Oishi S, Lucas R . Personality, culture, and subjective well-being: emotional and cognitive evaluations of life. Annu Rev Psychol. 2002; 54:403-25. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.54.101601.145056. View

20.

Di Fabio A . Positive Healthy Organizations: Promoting Well-Being, Meaningfulness, and Sustainability in Organizations. Front Psychol. 2017; 8:1938. PMC: 5694454. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01938. View