Dan Cristina-Ioana, Roşca Andra Cǎtǎlina, Mateizer Alexandru
Centre for Psychosociology, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Bucharest, Romania.
Department of Sociology-Psychology, Faculty of Political Sciences, National University of Political Sciences and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania.
Front Psychol. 2020 May 20;11:894. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00894. eCollection 2020.
The Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model was often utilized as an explanatory framework when investigating the strain process among first responders in general and firefighters in particular. Yet, little is known about the motivational processes whithin firefighters. The aim of this study is to expand the knowledge regarding the motivational process of firefighters by investigating job crafting and introducing work meaning within the motivational framework of the JD-R model, in relation to job performance. A cross-sectional survey design was used to collect data from one sample consisting of Romanian firefighters ( = 1,151). Structural equation modeling indicated the existence of both a direct and an indirect effect between job crafting and job performance through work meaning and work engagement. Our findings suggest that firefighters actively engage in job crafting behaviors and also that work meaning can be an outcome of job crafting. Results also encourage further research related to the way work meaning impacts job performance, through its link with work engagement. This study raises attention on how Fire departments may be able to create a climate that emphasizes meaningfulness and engagement, together with opportunities toward job redesign and a focus process based on efficiency gain.
工作需求-资源（JD-R）模型在调查一般急救人员尤其是消防员的压力过程时，常被用作一个解释框架。然而，对于消防员内部的激励过程却知之甚少。本研究的目的是通过在JD-R模型的激励框架内研究工作重塑并引入工作意义，以扩大对消防员激励过程的认识，并将其与工作绩效联系起来。采用横断面调查设计，从一个由罗马尼亚消防员组成的样本（n = 1151）中收集数据。结构方程模型表明，工作重塑与工作绩效之间存在通过工作意义和工作投入的直接和间接效应。我们的研究结果表明，消防员积极参与工作重塑行为，并且工作意义可能是工作重塑的结果。研究结果还鼓励进一步研究工作意义通过与工作投入的联系如何影响工作绩效。本研究引起了人们对消防部门如何能够营造一种强调意义和投入的氛围，以及提供工作重新设计的机会和基于效率提升的聚焦过程的关注。
