Bruno Andreina, Buono Carmela, Falco Alessandra, Brondino Margherita, Capone Vincenza, Dell'Aversana Giuseppina, Giancaspro Maria Luisa, Gilardi Silvia, Girardi Damiano, Guglielmi Dina, Ingusci Emanuela, Miglioretti Massimo, Pace Francesco, Platania Silvia, Signore Fulvio, Spagnoli Paola
Department of Education Sciences, University of Genoa, Genova, Italy.
Department of Psychology, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2024 Apr 12;15:1346556. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1346556. eCollection 2024.
Based on the job demands-resources (JD-R) model, the present study aimed to validate "The Technical and Administrative Staff Quality of Life At Work" (TASQ@work), a new tool to assess the quality of life at work in academia focused on technical and administrative staff.
This tool was developed by the QoL@Work research team, a group of expert academics in the field of work and organizational psychology affiliated with the Italian Association of Psychologists. The TASQ@work was elaborated in different steps. The first phase was aimed at the identification of the dimensions of the tool. The second phase was aimed to assess the psychometric properties of the tool. The validation process involved confirmatory analysis and measurement invariance of the various constructs selected. The analyses were performed in a convenience sample of two Italian universities in different regions (one in the Northwest and the second in Central Italy).
The sample was composed of 1820 Administrative Staff, comprising 69.4% from University 1 ( = 1,263) and 30.6% from University 2 ( = 557). The TASQ@work presented satisfactory psychometric properties (normality of the items, reliability and content, construct and nomological validity) and measurement invariance across gender, seniority, and Athenaeum.
The results indicate that the tool can be considered a reliable and valid instrument to assess job demands, job resources, and outcomes in the working life of technical and administrative academic staff. In this perspective, the present study represents the first contribution to the debate on the psychosocial risks in academic contexts by presenting a new tool, the TASQ@work, aimed at contextualizing the JD-R model to understand the role played by psychosocial aspects in affecting the well-being of the academic employees.
基于工作需求-资源（JD-R）模型，本研究旨在验证“学术机构技术与行政人员工作生活质量”（TASQ@work）这一用于评估学术机构中技术与行政人员工作生活质量的新工具。
该工具由工作生活质量（QoL@Work）研究团队开发，该团队是一群隶属于意大利心理学家协会的工作与组织心理学领域的专家学者。TASQ@work经过了不同阶段的精心设计。第一阶段旨在确定该工具的维度。第二阶段旨在评估该工具的心理测量特性。验证过程包括对所选各种结构进行验证性分析和测量不变性分析。分析是在来自意大利不同地区的两所大学（一所位于西北部，另一所位于意大利中部）的便利样本中进行的。
样本由1820名行政人员组成，其中69.4%来自大学1（共1263人），30.6%来自大学2（共557人）。TASQ@work呈现出令人满意的心理测量特性（项目的正态性、信度和内容效度、结构效度和效标效度），并且在性别、资历和学院之间具有测量不变性。
结果表明，该工具可被视为评估学术机构技术与行政人员工作生活中的工作需求、工作资源和工作成果的可靠且有效的工具。从这个角度来看，本研究通过提出一种新工具TASQ@work，为学术环境中心理社会风险的辩论做出了首次贡献，该工具旨在将JD-R模型应用于具体情境，以理解心理社会因素在影响学术人员幸福感方面所起的作用。
