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- Amato, Clara, et al.
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Individual and Organizational Factors at the Basis of Newly Graduated Nurses’ Burnout
- 2020
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Ingår i: XXXII International Congress of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background: Nurses’ burnout is extremely costly for hospitals and society in general. This is of special concern among newly graduated nurses, because about 25%-30% of them burnout or drop their jobs after the first year of employment. The aim of the present study was to investigate if newly graduated nurses’ perception of their work climate mediated the relationship between their personality and burnout symptoms. Method: At the beginning of their first year of work, 120 Swedish nurses answered the Temperament and Character Inventory, the Learning Climate Questionnaire, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory. We conducted hierarchical regression analysis to test if the effect of personality on burnout was mediated by nurses’ outlook on their work climate. Results: The mediation model was significant (F = 2.30, F-change = 4.71, p < .05, R2 = .14). Both Harm Avoidance ( = .27, p < .05) and Persistence ( = .22, p < .05) were related to higher levels of burnout. However, nurses’ perception of their work climate totally mediated the effect of both Harm Avoidance ( = .19, p = .10) and Persistence ( = .16, p = .15) on burnout. Conclusion: Nurses with a personality profile characterized by excessive worrying, pessimism, shyness, and fear (i.e., high Harm Avoidance) and who were perseverant in spite of fatigue or frustration (i.e., high Persistence) were more vulnerable to burnout because of their tendency to perceive lack of support and a highly demanding workplace. Moreover, they perceived a general feeling of work dissatisfaction and lacked sense of control over organizational events and the opportunity to learn and develop their competence. In sum, interventions aimed to mitigate the effect of critical work factors on burnout have to consider personality first; that is, the key to prevent burnout might be the development of a resilient personality profile.
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- Amato, Clara, et al.
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Job Satisfaction Leads to Better Health By Improving Psychiatric Patients’ Outlook on Their Illness
- 2019
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Ingår i: 3rd Biennial International Convention of Psychological Science. Paris, France.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We found that psychiatric patients with regular or supported employment, compared to psychiatric patients without it, reported higher levels of health. More important, job satisfaction was related to not feeling prevented in daily life by their mental illness, which in turn lead to better health.
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- Amato, Clara, et al.
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LinkedIn Users' Identity Clusters in the Prediction of Affectivity and Regulatory Mode
- 2019
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Ingår i: 3rd Biennial International Convention of Psychological Science. Paris, France..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We used quantitative semantics to find clusters of words in LinkedIn users’ self-descriptions. Some of these identity clusters discriminated between LinkedIn users with high/low positive affect (social and messy vs. honest), high/low negative affect (social vs. flexible), high/low locomotion (social vs. flexible), and high/low assessment (analytical vs. happy).
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- Amato, Clara, et al.
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Modus Operandi and Affect in Sweden: The Swedish Version of the Regulatory Mode Questionnaire
- 2017
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Ingår i: PeerJ. - : PeerJ. - 2167-8359. ; 5:e4092, s. 1-24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: The Regulatory Mode Questionnaire (RMQ) is the most used and international well-known instrument for the measurement of individual differences in the two self-regulatory modes: locomotion (i.e., the aspect of self-regulation that is concerned with movement from state to state) and assessment (i.e., the comparative aspect of self-regulation). The aim of the present study was to verify the independence of the two regulatory modes, as postulated by the Regulatory Mode Theory (Kruglanski, Thompson, Higgins, Atash, Pierro, Shah & Spiegel, 2000), and the psychometric properties of the RMQ in the Swedish context. Furthermore, we investigated the relationship between regulatory modes (locomotion and assessment) and affective well-being (i.e., positive affect and negative affect). Method: A total of 655 university and high school students in the West of Sweden (males = 408 females = 242, and 5 participants who didn’t report their gender; agemean = 21.93±6.51) responded to the RMQ and the Positive Affect Negative Affect Schedule. We conducted two confirmatory factor analyses using structural equation modeling (SEM). A third SEM was conducted to test the relationship between locomotion and assessment to positive affect and negative affect. Results: The first analyses confirmed the unidimensional factor structure of locomotion and assessment and both scales showed good reliability. The assessment scale, however, was modified by dropping item 10 (“I don’t spend much time thinking about ways others could improve themselves.”) because it showed low loading (.07, p =.115). Furthermore, the effect of locomotion on positive affect was stronger than the effect of assessment on positive affect (Z = -15.16, p < .001), while the effect of assessment on negative affect was stronger than the effect of locomotion on negative affect (Z = 10.73, p < .001). Conclusion: The factor structure of the Swedish version of the RMQ is, as Regulatory Mode Theory suggests, unidimensional and it showed good reliability. The scales discriminated between the two affective well-being dimensions. We suggest that the Swedish version of the RMQ, with only minor modifications, is a useful instrument to tap individual differences in locomotion and assessment. Hence, the present study contributes to the validation of the RMQ in the Swedish culture and adds support to the theoretical framework of self-regulatory mode.
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- Amato, Clara, et al.
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Newly Graduated Nurses' Learning Work Climate, Health, Resilience, and Burnout Symptoms
- 2020
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Ingår i: 32nd Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention. Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The results provide an indication of important learning work climate factors associated to newly graduated nurses’ health, ability to cope successfully in adverse circumstances (i.e., resilience), and burnout symptoms. It is, however, plausible that there is an interconnection between personal vulnerability, learning climate, and health (Stoyanov & Cloninger, 2011).
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- Amato, Clara, et al.
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Regulatory Mode
- 2018
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Ingår i: Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. - Cham, Switzerland : Springer. - 9783319246109
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The Regulatory Mode of conduct is the way individuals tend to regulate themselves when striving after determinate goals or way of doing activities. According to Regulatory Mode Theory, developed by Kruglanski and colleagues (2000), there are two different and independent regulatory modes or functions of self-regulation: assessment and locomotion. Assessment is "the comparative aspect of self-regulation concerned with critically evaluating entities or states, such as goals or means, in relation to alternatives in order to judge relative quality" (Kruglanski, Thompson, Higgins, Atash, Pierro, Shah & Spiegel, 2000, p. 794). Locomotion is the aspect of self-regulation concerned with "movement from state to state and with committing the psychological resources that will initiate and maintain goal-related movement in a straightforward and direct manner, without undue distractions or delays" (Kruglanski, Thompson, Higgins, Atash, Pierro, Shah & Spiegel, 2000, p. 794).
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- Amato, Clara, et al.
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TELL ME WHO YOU ARE
- 2020
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Ingår i: TPM - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology. - : CENTRO INFORMAZIONE SCIENTIFICA ECONOMICA SOCIALE-CISES SRL. - 1972-6325. ; 27:2, s. 153-170
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of the study was to analyze freely generated self-presentations through the natural language processing technique of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). Four hundred fifty-one participants (F = 360; M = 143) recruited from LinkedIn (a professional social network) were randomly assigned to generate 10 words to describe themselves to either an employer (recruitment-condition) or a friend (friendship-condition). The words frequency-rate and their semantic representation were compared between conditions and to the natural language (Googles n-gram database). Self-presentations produced in the recruitment condition (vs. natural language) had significantly higher number of agentic words (e.g., problemsolver, responsible, able team-worker) and their contents were semantically closer to the concept of agency (i.e., competence, assertiveness, decisiveness) comparing to the friendship condition. Furthermore, the valence of the self-presentations words was higher (i.e., with a more positive meaning) in the recruitment condition. Altogether, these findings are consistent with the literature on the "Big Two," self-presentation, and impression management.
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- Amato, Clara, et al.
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“Tell Me Who You Are" Latent Semantic Analysis for Analyzing Spontaneous Self-Presentations in Different Situations
- 2020
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Ingår i: Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology. - 1972-6325. ; 27:2, s. 153-170
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of the study was to analyze freely generated self-presentations through the natural language processing technique of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). Four hundred fifty-one participants (F = 360; M = 143) recruited from LinkedIn (a professional social network) were randomly assigned to generate 10 words to describe themselves to either an employer (recruitment-condition) or a friend (friendship- condition). The words’ frequency-rate and their semantic representation were compared between condi- tions and to the natural language (Google’s n-gram database). Self-presentations produced in the recruit- ment condition (vs. natural language) had significantly higher number of agentic words (e.g., problem- solver, responsible, able team-worker) and their contents were semantically closer to the concept of agency (i.e., competence, assertiveness, decisiveness) comparing to the friendship condition. Further- more, the valence of the self-presentations’ words was higher (i.e., with a more positive meaning) in the recruitment condition. Altogether, these findings are consistent with the literature on the “Big Two,” self- presentation, and impression management.
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