Learning climate and job performance among health workers. A pilot study

Frontiers in Psychology

卷:7

Monica Pivetti¹  MICHELA CORTINI¹  Sara Cervai² 

[1] University G. d'Annunzio;

[2] University of Trieste;

关键词: job performance;    Mediation analysis;    Learning Climate;    psychological strain;    health professions.;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01644

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paperwill explore if and how psychological strain plays a mediator role between the learning climate and job performance in a group of health workers.Although the relationship between learning climate and job performance has already been explored in the international literature, the role of psychological strain, which may hamper or deepen this relationship, has yetto be investigated.The research hypothesis is that psychological strain mediates the relationship between the climate towards learning (including also the error avoidance climate) and job performance.Data were gathered in a Public hospital in Italy. Participants (N = 61) were health professionals (nurses and obstetricians). Considering the relatively small sample size, a mediation analysis with the aid of the SPSS macro PROCESSwas performed.The results show that the relationship between the learning climate (specifically its dimension of organizational appreciation towards learning) and job performance is mediated by psychological strain.The future research agenda and practical implications are discussed in the paper.

【 授权许可】

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