Papers by Francesco De Paola
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2017
Orientation: Organisations need energetic and dedicated employees to enhance the quality of their... more Orientation: Organisations need energetic and dedicated employees to enhance the quality of their services and products continuously. According to the Conservation of Resources Theory, it is possible to increase work engagement of employees by improving their personal resources.Research purpose: The main aim of this study was to examine the extent to which an improvement in psychological capital, as a personal resource, might enhance work engagement of employees in the public sector.Motivation for the study: This study was developed to investigate how and to what extent interventions aiming at fostering higher work engagement through the enhancement of psychological capital were certainly effective.Research design, approach and method: To improve psychological capital, a new resource-based intervention programme (FAMILY intervention) was developed and applied, in which six dimensions – namely framing, attitudes, meaningfulness, identity, leading self and yoked together – were improv...
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect school engagement on health risk behaviors, as... more The aim of this study is to investigate the effect school engagement on health risk behaviors, as well as to test the mediating role of self-efficacy in the relationship between school engagement and health risk behaviors. Participants were 250 students attending a secondary school level. Using the method of correlational and regression analysis, the results showed that school engagement has a positive impact on reducing the health risk behaviors. Moreover, regression analysis revealed that self-efficacy plays partial mediator role in the relationship between School engagement and health risk behaviors. These findings highlight the importance of school Engagement and the students' personal effectiveness perception in limiting health risk behaviors.
Global Journal of Psychology Research: New Trends and Issues, 2021
This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of communication skills training on improving mari... more This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of communication skills training on improving marital intimacy and reducing marital conflicts among young couples using a cognitive behavioural therapy approach. Data were collected from a sample of 20 couples in Iran who were selected by purposive sampling method. To select them, first, they had to complete at least 2 years of marriage and, second, they should be willing to voluntarily participate in our training course. The selected sample was divided into experiment and control groups using the random assignment method based on a pre-test–post-test plan. The experimental group was trained in communication skills training via 8 weekly based sessions. During this period, no intervention was given to the control group. The hypothesis analyses using the covariance analysis showed that the communication skills training enhanced marital intimacy and reduced marital conflicts in all levels. The findings showed that CBT-based communication s...
Journal of International Management Studies, 2015
The study was designed to examine the relationship of Pay Satisfaction, organizational commitment... more The study was designed to examine the relationship of Pay Satisfaction, organizational commitment and perceived employment opportunities with Turnover intention and pay satisfaction with organization commitment. The instruments used to measure the variables of the study were Demographic Data Sheet and Pay Satisfaction scale, Organizational commitment scale and turnover intentions scale. The sample consisted of 90 employees (39 Males and 51 females) from public sector organizations of Islamabad. It was hypothesized that higher the pay satisfaction lower will be the turnover intention and higher the organizational commitment lower will be the turnover intention. It was also hypothesized that higher the pay satisfaction higher will be the organizational commitment. It was also hypothesized that higher the perceived employment opportunities higher will be turnover intentions. In order to determine the relationships, results were analyzed by the use of Pearson Product Moment correlation coefficient. The overall results revealed significant relationship between the variables and supporting all the hypotheses.
The present study examines the impact of a new positive psychology intervention, i.e. the family ... more The present study examines the impact of a new positive psychology intervention, i.e. the family intervention, on job crafting, flow at work and work engagement. The positive psychology intervention under analysis focused on the improvement of six work and organizational-related dimensions referred to as individual resources (i.e. \u201cframing\u201d, \u201cattitudes\u201d, \u201cmeaningfulness\u201d, \u201cidentity\u201d, \u201cleading self\u201d, and \u201cyoked together\u201d), which are hypothesized as bearing a positive impact on job crafting behaviours, flow at work and work engagement. A sample of employees (N=89) working in a pharmaceutical Italian company received a 2-day resource-based intervention based on meaningfulness, mindfulness and practical exercises. A halfday follow-up intervention was delivered after two months of the first intervention. Self-reported questionnaires were completed prior the intervention and one, two, and three weeks after it. Findings from a repeated measures anova suggest that the intervention was effective in fostering higher job crafting, flow at work and work engagement, which are important drivers of happiness at work. This initiative encourages future studies and researchers to focus on designing interventions directed at enhancing and developing crafting attitudes and happiness at work. The proposed study provides evidence that positive psychology intervention could improve employee well-being and employees\u2019 proactive behaviours, outcomes that could represent a noticeable advantage for both employees and organizations
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Papers by Francesco De Paola