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Coping with Burnout Symptoms through Task Significance in Professionals Working with Individuals with Intellectual Disability

2021

ABSTRACT This study examined an intervention that links task significance (one’s job has a positive impact on other people) to burnout symptoms of professionals working in organizations for individuals with intellectual disability. Professionals assigned to the experimental condition participated in teams designed to enhance the positive impact of their work on others (task significance). To do so, teams focused on a task to improve the quality of life of individuals with intellectual disability. Professionals assigned to the control condition did not participate in these teams, and they continued with their usual work. All the participating professionals answered a questionnaire abou…

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementCoping (psychology)Social Psychologylcsh:BF1-990educationIntellectual disabilityBurnoutteamsTask (project management)Teamstask significanceCynicismIntervention (counseling)Intellectual disabilitymedicineBurnoutPractical implicationsburnoutprofessionalsProfessionalsmedicine.diseasehumanitieslcsh:Psychologyintellectual disabilityMixed-design analysis of varianceTask significancePsychologypsychological phenomena and processesClinical psychologyRevista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones
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El afrontamiento de los síntomas de burnout a través del significado de la tarea en profesionales que trabajan con personas con discapacidad intelect…

2021

This study examined an intervention that links task significance (one’s job has a positive impact on other people) to burnout symptoms of professionals working in organizations for individuals with intellectual disability. Professionals assigned to the experimental condition participated in teams designed to enhance the positive impact of their work on others (task significance). To do so, teams focused on a task to improve the quality of life of individuals with intellectual disability. Professionals assigned to the control condition did not participate in these teams, and they continued with their usual work. All the participating professionals answered a questionnaire about burnout…

Significado de la tarea Burnout Equipos Discapacidad intelectual ProfesionalesTask significance Burnout Teams Intellectual disability Professionals
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Enhancing organisational commitment through task significance: the moderating role of openness to experience

2020

International audience; Researchers have extensively explored the factors influencing employees’ organisational commitment. However, few studies make an explicit distinction between different commitment types when exploring its determinants, and the scholarly attention to individual differences is also limited. In this paper, we confirm that developing managerial interventions to enhance task significance can be useful to promote organisational commitment, but this relationship is contingent on the commitment type and the employees’ openness to experience. We focus on two forms of organisational commitment: affective and continuance commitment. Our study shows that task significance is a be…

Strategy and ManagementOpenness to experience05 social sciencesPsychological interventionSample (statistics)Organizational commitmentAffective commitmentTask (project management)0502 economics and businessOpenness to experience[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration050211 marketingContinuance commitmentPsychologyTask significancePractical implicationsSocial psychology050203 business & management
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