Psychological Empowerment and Work Engagement as Mediating Roles Between Trait Emotional Intelligence and Job Satisfaction.

Yue Gong,Peng Huang,Xiaofei Yan,Zhengxue Luo,Yong Wu

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00232

Abstract

The majority of research indicates that trait emotional intelligence (EI) plays a crucial role in personal well being; however, the deeper mechanisms of this link remain unclear. The study explored the impact of psychological empowerment and work engagement in the link between trait EI and job satisfaction. Female nurses (370) completed the EI Scale, the Psychological Empowerment Scale, the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, and the Brief Index of Affective Job Satisfaction. The results of structural equation modeling demonstrated that work engagement partially mediated the association between trait EI and job satisfaction. Moreover, the serial one mediator model revealed that trait EI could influence job satisfaction via the serial mediating impact of “psychological empowerment–work engagement.” These results help to a better understanding of the association between these variables and demonstrate that high trait EI may improve occupational well being from emotional perspectives.

Highlights

Creating healthy organizations has become a focal point for organizations in improving employees’ health and well being (Warr, 2007; Di Fabio, 2017)
affective events theory (AET) demonstrates that occurrences with their work may enhance or decrease their positive or negative experience, and our study focuses on motivation and positive experience as the interpretive variables for the influence of trait emotional intelligence (EI) on employees’ satisfaction with their job
Relying on AET, the results demonstrated that work engagement partially mediated the link between trait EI and job satisfaction, and psychological empowerment do not mediate the association between trait EI and job satisfaction

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Introduction

Creating healthy organizations has become a focal point for organizations in improving employees’ health and well being (Warr, 2007; Di Fabio, 2017). Extant literature has demonstrated that both dispositional and situational factors predict satisfaction with job (Hosseinian et al, 2008; Keller and Semmer, 2013; Khany and Tazik, 2015; Mérida-López et al, 2019). This investigation relies on the affective events theory (AET) (Weiss and Cropanzano, 1996) as a framework for elaborating the influence of trait EI on job satisfaction, seeking to explore the deeper mechanism underlying this relationship in one study from emotional perspectives (i.e. work engagement and psychological empowerment)

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