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. 2021 Oct;29(7):2163-2174.
doi: 10.1111/jonm.13357. Epub 2021 Jun 6.

Job crafting mediates the relation between creativity, personality, job autonomy and well-being in Lebanese nurses

Rawan Ghazzawi  1   2 , Michael Bender  1   3 , Lina Daouk-Öyry  2   4 , Fons J R van de Vijver  5   6   7   8 , Athanasios Chasiotis  9
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Job crafting mediates the relation between creativity, personality, job autonomy and well-being in Lebanese nurses

Rawan Ghazzawi et al. J Nurs Manag. 2021 Oct.

Abstract

Aim: To better understand the functionality of job crafting and its relationship with personality and job autonomy in the context of non-Western health care as an adaptive problem-solving work behaviour that is related to creativity.

Background: Job crafting could be a strategy nurses use to solve problems as health care organisations become more unpredictable.

Methods: This cross-sectional study sampled 547 nurses from seven hospitals in Lebanon. Data were analysed using structural equation modelling (SEM).

Results: The job crafting dimensions of increasing structural job resources and increasing challenging job demands partially mediated the relationship between creativity and subjective well-being, and they fully mediated the relationship between job autonomy and subjective well-being. Creativity, job autonomy, and agreeableness were related to the approach job crafting dimensions, and two of these job crafting dimensions were in turn related to subjective well-being.

Conclusion: Creative nurses tend to job craft more and this is associated with their subjective well-being. Nurses high on extraversion and emotional stability experienced higher subjective well-being.

Implications for nursing management: Nursing administration and leaders may want to create an environment fostering creativity and encouraging approach-oriented job crafting.

Keywords: Lebanon; creativity; job autonomy; job crafting; nursing; personality; subjective well-being.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest. They also declare that they agree with the content of this manuscript.

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Proposed theoretical model. API, Arab Personality Inventory; JC, Job Crafting; ISTJR, Increasing Structural Job Resources; ISOJR, Increasing Social Job Resources; ICJD, Increasing Challenging Job Demands
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Resulting standardized paths of the hypothesized partial mediation model. API, Arab Personality Inventory; JC, Job Crafting; ISTJR, Increasing Structural Job Resources; ISOJR, Increasing Social Job Resources; ICJD, Increasing Challenging Job Demands; SWB, Subjective Well‐being; SWLS, Satisfaction with Life Scale; PA, Positive Affect. Dashed arrows indicate pathways that are not significant
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