The effect of perceived professional benefits on health professionals’ job engagement: The role of psychological availability and future perceived professional benefits

Abstract

Objective To investigate the impact of perceived professional benefits on the job engagement of health professionals. Methods Correlation analysis, hierarchical regression analysis and bootstrap tests were used to analyze the influence of perceived professional benefits on the job engagement of health professionals and to examine the mediating effect of psychological availability and the moderating effect of future perceived professional benefits. Result Health professionals’ perceived professional benefits have a positive impact on their job engagement; psychological availability plays a mediating role between perceived professional benefits and job engagement. Future perceived professional benefits not only positively regulate the impact of perceived professional benefits on health professionals’ psychological availability but also positively regulate the mediating role of psychological availability between perceived professional benefits and job engagement. Conclusion Perceived professional benefits can improve the job engagement of health professionals by improving their psychological availability. However, for health professionals with low future perceived professional benefits, perceived professional benefits do not have a significant impact on their job engagement through psychological availability. Therefore, while improving health professionals’ perceived professional benefits, we should also improve their future perceived professional benefits.