Psychological distress, job satisfaction, and work engagement among Palestinian teachers: a cross-sectional study

Pepe, Alessandro and Veronese, Guido and Addimando, Loredana and Dagdouke, J (2019) Psychological distress, job satisfaction, and work engagement among Palestinian teachers: a cross-sectional study. The LANCET, 393 (S40).

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Abstract

Work engagement is a positive, fulfilling affective and motivational state of work-related wellbeing and a protective factor for workers' mental health. The aim of the present study was to examine the association between psychological distress (conceptualized as the target variable), job satisfaction, and work engagement in contexts of low-intensity warfare and political violence. According to the salutogenic perspective, the relationship between job satisfaction and psychological distress is influenced by the level of work engagement. The main finding of the study is that work engagement may mediate the impact of job satisfaction on teachers' psychological distress by lessening the effect of difficult working conditions. It further suggests that in order to mediate the effect of low job satisfaction on psychological distress of teachers, organisational policies and practices should focus on improving employees' work engagement. This means that, in developing job programmes for teachers in contexts characterized by difficult working conditions, the main focus must be to increase the level of subjective resources (eg, inner states, emotional activation, personal motivational processes) and workers' engagement rather than focusing primarily on job satisfaction.

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