Sustainable Employability of Emergency Nurses: The Effects of Precarious Work and Mental Toughness on Capabilities and Mental Health

Abstract

Studying the sustainable employability of emergency nurses is important, given the precarious environment in which they work. This study used a cross-sectional survey of 204 emergency nursing professionals to investigate their sustainable employability in a South African context from the perspectives of precarious work, mental toughness, capabilities, and mental health. The Precarity Position Profile, Mental Toughness Questionnaire-Short Form, Capability Set for Work Questionnaire, and Flourishing-at-Work Scale-Short Form were administered. Three precarious work dimensions negatively predicted emergency nurses’ capabilities. Significantly, precarious work conditions and professional development were associated with most work capabilities. Emergency nurses’ capability set positively affected their mental health, with mental toughness moderating the effect of poor salary (a component of precarious work) on capabilities. Precariousness regarding salary, work conditions, and professional development affected emergency nurses’ mental health indirectly and negatively through a poor capability set, while mental toughness indirectly and positively affected their mental health through a strong capability set.

Italian Entertainment Professionals’ Sustainable Employability: What Factors to Consider? A Network Analysis

“…Although SE has initially been thought of in relation to aging workers [5], workers with disabilities [6], or some specific categories of workers (e.g., nurses [7] or construction workers [8]), applying the CA to the study of SE makes clear how SE intrinsically concerns workers of all ages, health statuses, and professions, as all deserve to be sustainably employed. This paper focuses on Italian entertainment professionals' SE and, more specifically, on factors involved in the promotion of these professionals' SE, for at least three reasons that will be argued below.…”

“…First, the literature on factors affecting employee SE is still limited. Scholars have only started identifying the impacting role of some personal factors (i.e., organizational awareness, self-knowledge, willingness to compromise, fear of stigmatization [9], and vertical trust [10]) and contextual factors (i.e., development opportunities [11], professional development [7], teamwork [10], relationship with co-workers and supervisors, autonomy and equipment sufficiency [12], leadership [9,13], HR practices [13], and SE policies [14]) on SE. Furthermore, definition and modeling of SE is still not univocal across the literature.…”