Health-Care Professionals Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Emotional Intelligence May Enhance Work Performance Traversing the Mediating Role of Work Engagement
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Health-Care Professionals Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Emotional Intelligence May Enhance Work Performance Traversing the Mediating Role of Work EngagementData de publicació
2021-09-09Editor
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Sanchez-Gomez, M.; Sadovyy, M.; Breso, E. Health-Care Professionals Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Emotional Intelligence May Enhance Work Performance Traversing the Mediating Role of Work Engagement. J. Clin. Med. 2021, 10, 4077. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10184077Tipus de document
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Upon the eruption of COVID-19, frontline health-care workers confronted substantial
workload and stress along with braving additional difficulties when performing at work. The main
aim of this research was to assess ... [+]
Upon the eruption of COVID-19, frontline health-care workers confronted substantial
workload and stress along with braving additional difficulties when performing at work. The main
aim of this research was to assess the mediating role of work engagement in the direct impact of
emotional intelligence on health-care professionals’ work performance. A cross-sectional study was
conducted in several Spanish hospitals during the second half of 2020. A total of 1549 health-care
workers (62.1% women; mean age 36.51 years) filled the Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence
Scale, the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale and the Individual Work Performance Questionnaire.
Our findings demonstrated that work engagement plays a mediating effect between emotional
intelligence and work performance, even when accounting for sociodemographic variables. Indeed,
among the three constructs of engagement, vigor dimension (a1b1 = 0.09; CI: 0.06; 0.12; p < 0.01)
emerges over dedication (a2b2 = 0.083; CI = 0.05, 0.1; p < 0.01) and absorption (a3b3 = 0.047; CI = 0.02,
0.07; p < 0.01) as the most decisive one. Herewith, it is apparent that professionals with a higher
self-perception of emotional intelligence report stronger levels of engagement, thereby leading to
greater performance overall. The present work evinces the necessity for proactively developing the
emotional competencies of the health-care workforce, especially in high-emotional demand contexts. [-]
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Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol. 10: Issue 18 (September-2 2021)Entitat finançadora
Universitat Jaume I
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Project UJI-A2018-10
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