Department of Islamic Studies, College of Hummanities and Social Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Psychology, College of Education, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia.
PLoS One. 2024 Nov 1;19(11):e0311909. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0311909. eCollection 2024.
Numerous studies indicated that workers in the health sector suffer from work stress, hassles, and mental health problems associated with COVID-19, which negatively affect the completion of their job tasks. These studies pointed out the need to search for mechanisms that enable workers to cope with job stress effectively.
This study investigated psychological flow, mental immunity, and job performance levels among the mental health workforce in Saudi Arabia. It also tried to reveal the psychological flow (PF) and mental immunity (MI) predictability of job performance (JP).
A correlational survey design was employed. The study sample consisted of 120 mental health care practitioners (therapists, psychologists, counselors)who lived in Saudi Arabia. Sixty-four were men, 56 were women, and their ages ranged between 27 and 48 (36.32±6.43). The researchers developed three measurements of psychological flow, mental immunity, and job performance. After testing their validity and reliability, these measures were applied to the study participants.
The results found median levels of psychological flow, mental immunity, and job performance among mental health care practitioners. Also, the results revealed that psychological flow and mental immunity were statistically significant predictors of job performance. The psychological flow variable contributed (38.70%) and mental immunity (54.80%) to the variance in job performance of mental health care practitioners.
The current study indicated that psychological flow and mental immunity significantly influenced the job performance of mental health care practitioners. These findings pointed out that human resource management in mental health care institutions in Saudi Arabia must search for procedures that achieve a state of flow and mental immunity for workers to make their jobs more meaningful. Also, these findings indicated the importance of planning interventions to enhance mental health care practitioners' psychological flow, mental immunity, and job performance to help them cope with work stress effectively and protect them from symptoms of burnout.
许多研究表明，卫生部门的工作人员承受着与 COVID-19 相关的工作压力、烦恼和心理健康问题，这对他们完成工作任务产生了负面影响。这些研究指出，需要寻找机制，使工作人员能够有效地应对工作压力。
本研究调查了沙特阿拉伯心理健康工作者的心理流畅度、心理免疫和工作绩效水平。它还试图揭示心理流畅度（PF）和心理免疫（MI）对工作绩效（JP）的可预测性。
采用相关性调查设计。研究样本由 120 名居住在沙特阿拉伯的心理健康护理从业人员（治疗师、心理学家、顾问）组成。其中 64 人为男性，56 人为女性，年龄在 27 岁至 48 岁之间（36.32±6.43）。研究人员开发了心理流畅度、心理免疫和工作绩效的三个测量方法。在测试了它们的有效性和可靠性之后，这些方法被应用于研究参与者。
研究结果发现，心理健康护理从业人员的心理流畅度、心理免疫和工作绩效处于中等水平。此外，研究结果表明，心理流畅度和心理免疫是工作绩效的统计学显著预测因素。心理流畅度变量（38.70%）和心理免疫（54.80%）对心理健康护理从业人员工作绩效的变化有贡献。
本研究表明，心理流畅度和心理免疫显著影响心理健康护理从业人员的工作绩效。这些发现指出，沙特阿拉伯心理健康护理机构的人力资源管理必须寻找能使员工达到流畅和免疫状态的程序，以使他们的工作更有意义。此外，这些发现还表明，必须规划干预措施，以提高心理健康护理从业人员的心理流畅度、心理免疫和工作绩效，帮助他们有效应对工作压力，保护他们免受倦怠症状的影响。
