Constructing Well-Being in Organizations: First Empirical Results on Job Crafting, Personality Traits, and Insight
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1. Participants and Procedure
2.2. Measures
2.2.1. Job Crafting Scale (JCS)
2.2.2. Big Five Questionnaire (BFQ)
2.2.3. Insight Orientation Scale (IOS)
2.3. Statistical Analyses
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |
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1. BFQ Extraversion | 1 | ||||||||
2. BFQ Agreeableness | 0.32 ** | 1 | |||||||
3. BFQ Conscientiousness | 0.24 ** | 0.22 ** | 1 | ||||||
4. BFQ Emotional stability | 0.29 ** | 0.33 ** | 0.03 | 1 | |||||
5. BFQ Openness | 0.38 ** | 0.39** | 0.46 ** | 0.07 | 1 | ||||
6. IOS Insight Orientation | 0.41 ** | 0.25 ** | 0.28 ** | 0.32 ** | 0.26 ** | 1 | |||
7. JCS Job Crafting | 0.37 ** | 0.26 ** | 0.29 ** | 0.12 | 0.21 ** | 0.39 ** | 1 | ||
8. JCS Individual Crafting | 0.43 ** | 0.29 ** | 0.25 ** | 0.08 | 0.28 ** | 0.31 ** | 0.84 ** | 1 | |
9. JCS Collaborative Crafting | 0.22 ** | 0.16 * | 0.24 ** | 0.12 | 0.09 | 0.36 ** | 0.89 ** | 0.50 ** | 1 |
M | 76.01 | 79.08 | 83.14 | 72.52 | 81.33 | 25.96 | 43.61 | 21.08 | 22.53 |
SD | 9.27 | 9.58 | 12.04 | 12.94 | 10.57 | 4.46 | 11.36 | 6.01 | 7.10 |
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Gori, A.; Arcioni, A.; Topino, E.; Palazzeschi, L.; Di Fabio, A. Constructing Well-Being in Organizations: First Empirical Results on Job Crafting, Personality Traits, and Insight. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 6661. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126661
Gori A, Arcioni A, Topino E, Palazzeschi L, Di Fabio A. Constructing Well-Being in Organizations: First Empirical Results on Job Crafting, Personality Traits, and Insight. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(12):6661. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126661
Chicago/Turabian StyleGori, Alessio, Alessandro Arcioni, Eleonora Topino, Letizia Palazzeschi, and Annamaria Di Fabio. 2021. "Constructing Well-Being in Organizations: First Empirical Results on Job Crafting, Personality Traits, and Insight" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 12: 6661. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126661