Zampetakis Leonidas A
Department of Psychology, Applied Psychology Lab University of Crete Rethymnon Greece.
Appl Psychol. 2022 Apr 13. doi: 10.1111/apps.12388.
In the present study, we seek to understand how public sector employees that go to work to perform essential duties for the society and the economy cope with the fear of COVID-19 and maintain their motivation, energy, and enthusiasm for their work. We hypothesized that because employees are motivated to protect their health, an increase in daily fear of COVID-19 would be related to a daily increase in coping behaviors in the form of job crafting, which would consequently be related to employees' daily motivation. Data were based on 64 tenured employees working in public service organizations during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (March 2021), who completed a quantitative diary for five consecutive workdays ( = 320 occasions). Results from multilevel analysis indicated that fear of COVID-19 had an indirect effect on work engagement through only one dimension of job crafting, seeking job resources. The study contributes to the ongoing theoretical extension of the beneficial role of job crafting by suggesting seeking social resources as an effective coping strategy for fear of COVID-19.
在本研究中，我们试图了解那些为社会和经济履行基本职责而上班的公共部门员工如何应对对新冠病毒的恐惧，并保持他们对工作的动力、精力和热情。我们假设，由于员工有保护自身健康的动机，日常对新冠病毒恐惧的增加会与以工作重塑形式出现的应对行为的每日增加相关，而这反过来又会与员工的日常动力相关。数据基于在新冠疫情第三波期间（2021年3月）在公共服务组织工作的64名长期员工，他们连续五个工作日完成了一份定量日志（共320次记录）。多层次分析结果表明，对新冠病毒的恐惧仅通过工作重塑的一个维度，即寻求工作资源，对工作投入产生间接影响。该研究通过提出寻求社会资源作为应对新冠病毒恐惧的有效应对策略，为工作重塑有益作用的持续理论拓展做出了贡献。
