From Rights to Responsibilities at Work: The Longitudinal Interplay of Decent Work, Flourishing, and Job Performance Across Italian Employees
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Decent Work
1.2. Analyzing Decent Work Through the Lens of COR Theory and SDT
1.3. “Gain Spirals”: Reciprocal Relationships Between Decent Work, Flourishing, and Job Performance
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Procedure and Participants
2.2. Measures
2.3. Analytic Strategy
3. Results
4. Discussion
4.1. Practical Implications
4.2. Study Limitations and Future Research
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
COR | Conservation of Resources |
SDT | Self-determination theory |
1 | Following the observations of an anonymous reviewer, we conducted a post hoc RMSEA-based power analysis to assess whether our sample size was adequate for the intended analyses using the web-based interface power4SEM (Jak et al., 2021). With 241 degrees of freedom, a sample of 426 participants provided sufficient power to reject an RMSEA of 1 under the hypotheses of close fit (H0 = 0.05; H1 = 0.08), not-close fit (H1 = 0.01), and exact fit (H1 = 0). These results indicate that our sample size is sufficient to ensure robust statistical power in our analyses. |
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Mean (n) | SD (%) | |
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Age | 44.07 | 13.25 |
Sex | ||
Male | (137) | (33.5) |
Female | (267) | (65.3) |
Educational level | ||
Elementary school | (1) | (0.2) |
High school | (19) | (4.5) |
High School | (184) | (43.4) |
Bachelor’s degree | (59) | (13.9) |
Master’s degree | (126) | (29.7) |
Second-level master’s degree | (25) | (5.9) |
Doctorate degree | (10) | (2.4) |
Work sector | ||
Manufacturing | (10) | (2.7) |
Construction | (4) | (1.1) |
Wholesale trade | (22) | (6) |
Hospitality | (31) | (8.5) |
Communication | (9) | (2.5) |
Financial services | (11) | (3) |
Business service providers | (15) | (4.1) |
ICT | (3) | (0.8) |
Education | (85) | (23.3) |
Healthcare and social services | (35) | (8.8) |
Science and technology | (10) | (2.7) |
Artistic and literary fields | (6) | (1.6) |
Military service | (25) | (6.8) |
Other | (102) | (27.9) |
Seniority | 19.27 | 11.52 |
Role tenure | 11.57 | 9.68 |
Years of work in the current team | 7.44 | 7.38 |
Work contract | ||
Permanent | (322) | (76.3) |
Fixed-term | (56) | (13.3) |
Self-employed | (17) | (4.0) |
Other | (27) | (6.4) |
Work hours | ||
Full-time | (335) | (79.0) |
Part-time | (89) | (21.0) |
Work modality | ||
Office-based | (328) | (81.6) |
Remote | (4) | (1.0) |
Hybrid | (70) | (17.4) |
Mean | SD | Skew | Kurt | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. | 6. | 7. | 8. | 9. | 10. | 11. | |
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1. Decent work T1 | 3.57 | 0.72 | −0.29 | 0.08 | 0.79 | ||||||||||
2. Decent work T2 | 3.56 | 0.71 | −0.36 | −0.22 | 0.74 *** | 0.82 | |||||||||
3. Decent work T3 | 3.61 | 0.74 | −0.23 | −0.25 | 0.66 *** | 0.79 *** | 0.85 | ||||||||
4. Flourishing T1 | 4.98 | 0.98 | −0.51 | 0.95 | 0.46 *** | 0.46 *** | 0.44 *** | 0.90 | |||||||
5. Flourishing T2 | 4.94 | 0.99 | −0.28 | 0.99 | 0.50 *** | 0.60 *** | 0.54 *** | 0.72 *** | 0.91 | ||||||
6. Flourishing T3 | 4.92 | 1.08 | −0.34 | 0.51 | 0.36 *** | 0.50 *** | 0.56 *** | 0.67 *** | 0.70 *** | 0.94 | |||||
7. Performance T1 | 8.83 | 1.28 | −0.74 | 2.59 | 0.22 *** | 0.21 ** | 0.28 *** | 0.38 *** | 28 *** | 0.25 *** | - | ||||
8. Performance T2 | 8.82 | 1.34 | −1.45 | 5.69 | 0.29 *** | 0.35 *** | 0.33 *** | 0.44 *** | 0.45 *** | 0.33 *** | 0.54 *** | - | |||
9. Performance T3 | 8.83 | 1.36 | −1.69 | 8.33 | 0.16 * | 0.24 ** | 0.35 *** | 0.32 *** | 0.38 *** | 0.37 *** | 0.55 *** | 0.60 *** | - | ||
10. Gender (0=m;1=f) | - | - | - | - | −0.11 * | −0.12 * | −0.07 | −0.13 ** | −0.16 ** | −0.10 | −0.02 | −0.09 | −0.02 | − | |
11. Age | 44.07 | 13.25 | −0.23 | −1.14 | 0.14 ** | 0.17 ** | 0.13 * | 0.03 | 0.09 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.13 * | 0.02 | −0.11 * | − |
YBχ2 | df | CFI | TLI | RMSEA (95% CIs) | SRMR | Comparison | ΔCFI | ΔRMSEA | ΔSRMR | |
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M1. Stability | 589.89 *** | 310 | 0.949 | 0.943 | 0.046 (0.040–0.052, p = 0.874) | 0.093 | - | - | - | - |
M2. Normal causation | 547.52 *** | 306 | 0.956 | 0.950 | 0.043 (0.037–0.049, p = 0.977) | 0.063 | M2 vs. M1 | −0.007 | −0.003 | −0.030 |
M3. Reversed causation | 577.66 *** | 306 | 0.955 | 0.944 | 0.044 (0.040–0.051, p = 0.894) | 0.063 | M3 vs. M2 | −0.006 | −0.002 | −0.030 |
M4. Reciprocal causation | 536.03 *** | 302 | 0.958 | 0.951 | 0.043 (0.037–0.048, p = 0.981) | 0.059 | M4 vs. M1 | −0.009 | −0.003 | −0.034 |
M4 vs. M2 | −0.002 | 0.000 | −0.004 | |||||||
M4 vs. M3 | −0.003 | −0.001 | −0.004 |
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Marzocchi, I.; Fusco, L.; Olivo, I.; Isolani, S.; Spinella, F.; Ghezzi, V.; Ghelli, M.; Ronchetti, M.; Persechino, B.; Barbaranelli, C. From Rights to Responsibilities at Work: The Longitudinal Interplay of Decent Work, Flourishing, and Job Performance Across Italian Employees. Behav. Sci. 2025, 15, 499. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15040499
Marzocchi I, Fusco L, Olivo I, Isolani S, Spinella F, Ghezzi V, Ghelli M, Ronchetti M, Persechino B, Barbaranelli C. From Rights to Responsibilities at Work: The Longitudinal Interplay of Decent Work, Flourishing, and Job Performance Across Italian Employees. Behavioral Sciences. 2025; 15(4):499. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15040499
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarzocchi, Ivan, Luigi Fusco, Ilaria Olivo, Stefano Isolani, Francesca Spinella, Valerio Ghezzi, Monica Ghelli, Matteo Ronchetti, Benedetta Persechino, and Claudio Barbaranelli. 2025. "From Rights to Responsibilities at Work: The Longitudinal Interplay of Decent Work, Flourishing, and Job Performance Across Italian Employees" Behavioral Sciences 15, no. 4: 499. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15040499
APA StyleMarzocchi, I., Fusco, L., Olivo, I., Isolani, S., Spinella, F., Ghezzi, V., Ghelli, M., Ronchetti, M., Persechino, B., & Barbaranelli, C. (2025). From Rights to Responsibilities at Work: The Longitudinal Interplay of Decent Work, Flourishing, and Job Performance Across Italian Employees. Behavioral Sciences, 15(4), 499. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15040499