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The effect of perceived professional benefits on health professionals’ job engagement: the role of psychological availability and future perceived professional benefits

Authors: Jin Wan, Wenjun Zhou, Mingyue Qin, Haiming Zhou

Published in: BMC Health Services Research | Issue 1/2024

Abstract

Background

Improving the job engagement of health professionals can effectively enhance the quality of their medical services. However, few studies have investigated whether and how perceived professional benefits affect job engagement. Based on resource conservation theory, this study explored the effect of the influence of perceived professional benefits on job engagement, and also examined the mediating role of psychological availability and the moderating role of future perceived professional benefits.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted in six tertiary hospitals and seven secondary hospitals in Liu Panshui, a city in western China. A total of 1,406 valid questionnaires were obtained and analysed by using correlation analysis, hierarchical regression analysis, and bootstrap tests.

Result

The study found a significant positive association between health professionals’ perceived professional benefits and their job engagement. Additionally, psychological availability was found to mediate this relationship. Future perceived professional benefits not only positively moderate this relationship between perceived professional benefits on health professionals’ psychological availability but also positively moderate the mediating role of psychological availability between perceived professional benefits and job engagement.

Conclusion

Improving health professionals’ perceived professional benefits can enhance their job engagement by increasing their psychological availability. However, for health professionals with low future perceived professional benefits, this improvement may disappear. Therefore, it is important to enhance both their current and future perceived professional benefits to improve their job engagement.

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Title: The effect of perceived professional benefits on health professionals’ job engagement: the role of psychological availability and future perceived professional benefits
Authors: Jin Wan
Wenjun Zhou
Mingyue Qin
Haiming Zhou
Publication date: 01-12-2024
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: BMC Health Services Research / Issue 1/2024
Electronic ISSN: 1472-6963
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-10684-y

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