Department of Human Studies, LUMSA University, 00193 Rome, Italy.
Department of Human Sciences "Riccardo Massa", Bicocca University, 20126 Milan, Italy.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Jul 6;17(13):4869. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17134869.
The current cross-sectional study examines a model that was designed to advance understanding of the interplay between compassion towards teachers expressed by teaching colleagues, subjective happiness, proactive strategies and kindergarten teachers' levels of work engagement, and perceived working environment fit.
The research was conducted with a sample of 319 full-time in-service kindergarten teachers at Italian public preschools-a context in which a few previous studies have been carried out. Self-report questionnaires were administered: The Subjective Happiness Scale, the Santa Clara Brief Compassion Scale, the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, the Proactive Strategy Scale, and the Teacher-working environment fit scale. Data were analyzed by using the structural equation modelling (SEM) approach.
Results show that compassion and subjective happiness have a direct positive total effect on work engagement, whereas the effects of compassion and subjective happiness on experienced working environment fit suggest that the association among constructs is mediated by the role of proactive strategies.
Based on these findings, we strongly advocate that educational policy makers and head teachers' pay close attention to the areas of personal and collective resources and work-related well-being, with a view to effectively address the promotion of early childhood teachers' work engagement and working environment fit.
本横断面研究旨在深入理解同事对教师的同情心、主观幸福感、主动策略与幼儿园教师工作投入度和感知工作环境适配度之间的相互作用关系。
该研究以意大利公立幼儿园的 319 名全职在职幼儿园教师为样本，这是一个之前有少量研究的背景。采用自陈式问卷进行研究：主观幸福感量表、圣克拉拉简短同情心量表、乌得勒支工作投入量表、主动策略量表和教师-工作环境适配度量表。使用结构方程建模（SEM）方法进行数据分析。
结果表明，同情心和主观幸福感对工作投入具有直接的积极总效应，而同情心和主观幸福感对体验到的工作环境适配度的影响表明，这些结构之间的关联是由主动策略的作用介导的。
基于这些发现，我们强烈主张教育政策制定者和校长密切关注个人和集体资源以及与工作相关的幸福感领域，以期有效地解决促进幼儿教师工作投入和工作环境适配度的问题。
