Predicting Challenge and Threat Appraisal of Job Demands among Nurses: The Role of Matching Job Resources

(1) Background: Empirical studies have started to examine employees' subjective appraisals of job demands and their relations to employees' health. However, knowledge of working conditions, which might contribute to how employees appraise specific job demands, is scarce. The present study...

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health 2023-01, Vol.20 (2), p.1288
Main Authors: Fernandez de Henestrosa, Martha, Sischka, Philipp E, Steffgen, Georges
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Autonomy
Burnout, Professional - psychology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Decision making
Emotions
Employees
Humans
Job Satisfaction
Multiple regression analysis
Nurses
Occupational health
Occupational stress
Physiology
Regression Analysis
Social interactions
Stress
Surveys and Questionnaires
Threats
Working conditions
Workload - psychology
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Summary:(1) Background: Empirical studies have started to examine employees' subjective appraisals of job demands and their relations to employees' health. However, knowledge of working conditions, which might contribute to how employees appraise specific job demands, is scarce. The present study aimed to examine predictors of nurses' appraisals of job demands (i.e., time pressure, emotional demands, physical demands, and role ambiguity) as challenges and/or threats among corresponding job resources (i.e., autonomy, social support, physical resources, participation in decision-making). It also examined moderating effects of these predictors. (2) Methods: Cross-sectional data were collected via an online survey in a sample of 425 nurses working in Luxembourg. (3) Results: Multiple regression analyses indicated that matching job resources predicted nurses' appraisal of job demands as challenging. Threat appraisal was predicted by three out of four kinds of job resources (i.e., autonomy, physical resources, participation in decision-making). However, the current study did not find any moderating effects between job demands and job resources on challenge/threat appraisals. (4) Conclusions: The present study identified domain-specific job resources that contribute to how employees perceive selected job demands. Accordingly, we encourage scholars and practitioners to align job demands with matching job resources to prevent nurses' threat appraisal of job demands, and to promote their challenge appraisals.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph20021288