Search results for "Well"

Older Physical Education Teachers’ Wellbeing at Work and Its Challenges

2022

This article examines older physical education (PE) teachers’ wellbeing over the course of their career in Finland. The study highlights challenges to physical and mental functioning as well as how teachers respond to these challenges. The six interviewees were over 55-year-old PE teachers, whose career had lasted for more than 30 years. Qualitative methods were used in the collection, transcription and analysis of the research data. The qualitative analysis consisted of a series of interpretations that visualised the world described by the interviewees. All the research participants had physical problems that affected their teaching and make teachers consider a potential career c…

Eudaimonia Wellbeing Beliefs and its implications for employees´ wellbeing, organizational performance, and helping others

2018

The aim of this doctoral thesis is to examine the impact of eudaimonia wellbeing beliefs – people conception of the nature and experience of wellbeing – on their wellbeing at workplace, on the organizational performance focused on helping others and on specific prosocial behaviours. Three empirical studies were conducted to this end, using different research designs and samples. Study 1 analyses the moderating role of the two dimensions of eudaimonia wellbeing beliefs (contribution-to-others and self-development) in the relationship between surface acting and exhaustion. We use a cross-sectional self-reported design and a sample of 817 front line employees working in 118 health care organiz…

Nonākot pretrunās: afgāņu patvēruma meklētāju izpratne un spēja tikt galā ar potenciāli traumatiskām pieredzēm Lesbas salā, Grieķijā

2022

Izmantojot medicīnas antropoloģijas pieeju un iedvesmojoties no Klainmana (Kleinman), es pētu skaidrojošos modeļus, kurus izmanto patvēruma meklētāji no Afganistānas Mavrovouni nometnē Lesbas salā. Balstoties tiešsaistē veiktās padziļinātās intervijās, kā arī līdzdalīgajā novērojumā, ko veicu, piecus mēnešus uzturoties Mitilēnā, es izklāstu pētījuma dalībnieku izpratni par labbūtību (wellbeing) un ciešanām, to iemesliem, piešķirtajām nozīmēm un reakcijām uz ciešanām. Kā ciešanu avoti var tik nosaukti gan personiskas īpašības, piemēram, spēks, gan ārēji faktori, piemēram, piespiedu nekustīgums. Atbildē uz tiem iespiējamams ciešanu cēlioni vai nu pieņemt, vai cīnīties pret to. Šo izpratņu stā…

Database wellbeing and creative performance

2022

Base de datos (.sav; programa SPSS) sobre bienestar laboral y rendimiento creativo perteneciente al proyecto Building Technologies Accelerator (BTA) - Climate-KIC flagship programme) (Investigador Principal: Jose María Peiró)

Dažādu paaudžu angļu valodas skolotāju labizjūta profesionālajā darbībā

2015

Maģistra darba tēma ir „Dažādu paaudžu angļu valodas skolotāju labizjūta profesionālajā darbībā”, un tā mērķis ir izpētīt un analizēt dažādu paaudžu angļu valodas skolotāju pieredzi saistībā ar labizjūtu viņu profesionālajā darbībā, un noteikt skolotāju labizjūtu ietekmējošos faktorus. Labizjūta skolotāja profesijā ir būtisks apstāklis, lai veidotos skolotāja apmierinātība ar darbu un dzīvi kopumā, pozitīvas attiecības ar apkārtējiem, kā arī pozitīva un veiksmīga mācību vide. Tādēļ ir svarīgi izpētīt, kādi faktori veicina un arī kavē labizjūtas rašanos, kā arī izanalizēt, kas ir nepieciešams, lai uzlabotu mācību vidi un skolotāja psiholoģisko un subjektīvo labizjūtu. Pirmie gadi skolotājiem…

Living in the blurry zone : a study of the wellbeing and work-life balance of Finnish SME entrepreneurs

2018

Pienten ja keskisuurten yritysten yrittäjät ovat tärkeä osa Suomen taloutta. Tämän vuoksi heidän hyvinvointiaan sekä työn ja muun elämän tasapainoa on tärkeää tutkia. Liiketoiminta kirjallisuus on perinteisesti tukenut näkemystä, jonka mukaan yrityksen johtaja tukee työntekijöidensä työn ja muun elämän tasapainoa sekä hyvinvointia. Tämä näkemys ei kuitenkaan ota huomioon yrittäjiä, jotka toimivat yrityksiensä johtajina. Entä heidän hyvinvointinsa? Mikä on heidän työn ja muun elämän tasapainon tila? Tämä tutkimus pyrkii vastaamaan muun muassa näihin kysymyksiin. Tutkimukseen osallistui kaksitoista pienten ja keskisuurten yritysten yrittäjää. Nämä yrittäjät toimivat eri toimialoilla ja eri pu…

Mielekkyyttä työhön : esimerkki korkeakoulukontekstista

2018

Woman as a mate and comrade of man in H. G. Wells’s "The New Machiavelli"

2019

H. G. Wells’s The New Machiavelli (1911) was the bold statement of the rights of women in the new century. It was, of course, useless to deny that The New Machiavelli had a sexual base. The sexual relations between men and women had come to dominate Wells’s mind, and it was going to be an important topic in his books. Wells’s novel, which is a cry of anger against the oppressive conventions of society, is in part based on autobiographical details of Wells’s own life, his affair in 1908 with Amber Reeves, a brilliant Cambridge graduate. Central to Wells’s doctrines of male-female relationships is his understanding of the duality of love. Wells stresses the importance of two people loving eac…

Reciprocal Relations between Work-Related Authenticity and Intrinsic Motivation, Work Ability and Depressivity: A Two-Wave Study

2017

This study investigates the role of context-specific authenticity at work for work-related outcomes (intrinsic motivation, work ability) and depressivity. Furthermore reciprocal relations between work-related authenticity and healthy psychological functioning are investigated. Longitudinal data from 1,243 employees from 63 subsidiaries of a non-profit organization in the social sector were analyzed using multilevel structural equation modeling. Work-related authenticity at T1 predicted work ability and depressivity, but not intrinsic motivation at T2, about 6 months later. Work-related authenticity at T2 was predicted by intrinsic motivation and depressivity, but not by work ability at T1. …

Longitudinal Patterns of Ethical Organisational Culture as a Context for Leaders’ Well-Being: Cumulative Effects Over 6 Years

2021

AbstractThe aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate the temporal dynamics of ethical organisational culture and how it associates with well-being at work when potential changes in ethical culture are measured over an extended period of 6 years. We used a person-centred study design, which allowed us to detect both typical and atypical patterns of ethical culture stability as well as change among a sample of leaders. Based on latent profile analysis and hierarchical linear modelling we found longitudinal, concurrent relations and cumulative gain and loss cycles between different ethical culture patterns and leaders’ well-being. Leaders in the strongest ethical culture pattern exper…