Surgeons' work engagement: Influencing factors and relations to job and life satisfaction

Validation of Nepalese Version of Utrecht Work Engagement Scale

“…Consistent with our expectation, work engagement was negatively associated with psychological distress and positively associated with health, job satisfaction, happiness and job performance. These findings are consistent with previous studies 5,6,8,11) that provided support for the construct validity of the UWES-N. However, because of the cross-sectional design of the current study, we cannot infer the causal direction of the relationships.…”

“…Thus, work engagement is defined as a positive, fulfilling work-related state of mind that is characterized by vigor (i.e., high levels of energy and mental resilience while working, the willingness to invest effort in one's work and persistence even in the face of difficulties), dedication (i.e., a sense of significance, enthusiasm, inspiration, pride and challenge) and absorption (i.e., being fully concentrated and happily engrossed in one's work, whereby time passes quickly and one has difficulties detaching oneself from work) 3) . Previous studies found that work engagement has been positively associated with job satisfaction and quality of life 5) , happiness 6) , health 7) , job performance and life satisfaction 8) and negatively associated with ill health 8) . To sum up, work engagement is associated with better well-being.…”

Among Musculoskeletal Surgeons, Job Dissatisfaction Is Associated With Burnout

“…Burnout is known to occur in professions with frequent, stressful interpersonal interactions and can lead to decreased effectiveness at work, negative health outcomes, and less job satisfaction [5,17,18,30]. A relationship between burnout and job satisfaction is established for several types of physicians [1,4,8,10,14,19,26,27], but has been studied less among surgeons treating musculoskeletal conditions.…”

“…People who do stressful work build psychological and organizational resources to help manage the stress [15]. This can be difficult to maintain, and surgeons are susceptible to stress-related diseases (ie, depression and addiction), burnout, and dissatisfaction [5,17,30]. To help build and maintain resources to limit burnout and optimize job satisfaction among surgeons treating musculoskeletal conditions, it would help to have a better understanding of the associated factors.…”

The Relationship of Teachers’ Work Engagement with Organizational and Personal Variables: A Multiple Mediator Model

“…In recent years it has been expressed that personal variables can also be accepted as antecedents of work engagement in addition to organizational variables (Bal, 2008;Chughtai & Buckley, 2008;Öner, 2008;Xanthopoulou et al, 2007Xanthopoulou et al, , 2009a. In this respect, it is seen that the relationship of variables such as self-efficacy (Llorens et al, 2007;Schaufeli & Salanova, 2007a, 2007b, selfesteem, optimism, (Xanthopoulou et al, 2007), trust (Chughtai & Buckley, 2008) and resilience (Bakker et al, 2006;Mache, Vitzthum, Klapp & Danzer, 2014;Van den Heuvel, Demerouti, Bakker & Schaufeli, 2010) with work engagement has been investigated independently or jointly in a structural model. Additionally, it is asserted that personal resources mediate the relationship between organizational resources and work engagement (Xanthopoulou et al, 2007;Van den Heuvel et al, 2010).…”