New publication on job crafting and change
Organizations today have to change constantly. Although both practitioners and scientists agree that organizational change communication is the most effective strategy to improve employee adjustment to change, little is known about how change communication enhances more proactive employee reactions to change. The present study addresses employee job crafting behaviors (i.e., seeking job resources, seeking job […]
New publication on work engagement in Europe
This study uncovers the relationships between work engagement at country level on the one hand, and a variety of national economic, governance, and cultural indicators on the other hand. Work engagement data were used from the 6th European Working Conditions Survey (2015) that includes 43,850 employees from thirty-fiveEuropean countries. The most engaged countries can be […]
New publication on general, context-free engagement
There is no compelling psychological reason why psychological engagement should be restricted to employees. For instance, sports, volunteering, hobbies, leisure activities, and education can also be pursued with energy and determination. Hence, the current study introduced the concept of general engagement and its measurement with the Utrecht General Engagement Scale (UGES). Using a representative sample […]
New publication on leadership, job crafting and boredom
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of team-level servant leadership on job boredom and the role of job crafting. A longitudinal design was used and 237 employees, clustered into 47 teams participated. In the study Servant leadership was aggregated to the team-level to examine the effects of shared perceptions of leadership […]
New Publication on workaholism and irrational beliefs
This study investigates the role of irrational beliefs at work in two Italian samples. The first aim was to evaluate the psychometric properties of an Italian adaptation of the Work-related Irrational Beliefs Questionnaire (WIB-Q; Van Wijhe, Peeters, & Schaufeli, 2013). The four-factor structure (i.e., performance demands, coworkers’ approval, failure, and control) was confirmed and […]
New publication on job demands and job resources
This study used a person‐centered approach to examine the across‐time relationships between job demands and job resources of Chinese nurses and police officers on the one hand and their well‐being (burnout and work engagement) on the other. It was expected that increases in demands and decreases in resources across time would result in unfavorable changes […]
New publication on measuring work engagement (ultra-short UWES)
The current study introduces an ultra-short, 3-item version of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale. Using five national samples from Finland (N = 22,117), Japan (N = 1,968), the Netherlands (N = 38,278), Belgium/Flanders (N = 5,062), and Spain (N = 10,040) its internal consistency and factorial validity vis-à-vis validated measures of burnout, workaholism, and job […]
New overview on educator stress
The first part of the chapter discusses the Job Demands-Resources (JDR) model and its development across time. The second part of the chapter focuses on the application of the model in the context of educator stress. Based on a literature search and the JD-R framework, an overview is provided of the most important findings on […]
Nieuwe publicatie over burnout
Burn-out staat in het middelpunt van de belangstelling. Echter, wat is ‘burn-out’ nu precies? Er is groeiende kritiek op de meest gangbare definitie en daarmee ook op het meest gebruikte instrument om burn-out te meten: de Maslach Burnout Inventory, in Nederland bekend als UBOS. Dit artikel stelt een nieuwe burn-out definitie voor op basis van […]
New publication on the JD-R model
In this paper the case is made that the Job Demands Resources (JD-R) model can be used as an integrative conceptual framework for monitoring the workplace with the aim to increase work engagement and prevent burnout. The paper starts with a brief description of the JD-R model and then introduces the Energy Compass, an online […]