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Médecine du travail du personnel hospitalier

Surgeons’ work engagement: influencing factors and relations to job and life satisfaction

Auteur       Stefanie Mache
Auteur       Karin Vitzthum
Auteur       Burghard F. Klapp
Auteur       Gerhard Danzer
Volume       12
Numéro       4
Pages       181-190
Publication       The Surgeon: Journal of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Ireland
ISSN       1479-666X
Date       Aug 2014
Résumé       BACKGROUND: Work engagement has become a topic of great interest in recent years. However, clinicians’ work engagement has rarely been studied and relatively little is known about its predictors and consequences. Therefore the objective of this cross-sectional questionnaire study was to test a model of possible institutional and personal predictors and significant relations to job and life satisfaction. METHODS: 123 clinicians specializing in Surgery Medicine participated in the study. Self-administered questionnaires, including the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire, the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, the Brief Resilient Coping Scale and the Questionnaire for Self-efficacy, Optimism and Pessimism, were administered. Bivariate analyses and a stepwise regression analysis were performed. RESULTS: The whole sample of surgeons rated work engagement with a high mean of M = 4.38; SD = .91. Job satisfaction and perceived quality of life have been rated with moderate scores. The results show that job resources have a greater impact on surgeons’ work engagement than their job demands. Significant correlations between surgeons’ work engagement, their job satisfaction and quality of life were found. Moreover, work engagement mediated the relation between institutional factors and surgeons’ job satisfaction. CONCLUSION: Our research suggests that strengthening surgeons’ work engagement will contribute to a more sustainable workplace, in terms of both individual and hospital performance. Therefore, increasing work engagement among surgeons should be of concern for supervisors and hospital managers. Future research should focus on further predictors that may have an influence on health professionals’ work engagement. Another field for future research is to study potential effects of interventions on work engagement.

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doi:10.1016/j.surge.2013.11.015

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