Professional Vitality Research Articles

Professional Sustainability of Personality: Analysis of Volunteering Activity in Modern Conditions

Volunteer work is difficult to characterize as easy, as it requires people to take a lot of responsibility, energy costs, emotional inclusion and the ability to quickly adapt in situations of increased complexity. There is a growing need to study the characteristics of volunteers’ sustainability. The aim of the article. The purpose of the article is to envisage volunteer activity in Ukraine as a manifestation of social activity of citizens in the context of determining the relationship between sustainability, value orientations and emotional burnout in volunteers as individual mental structures. Research methods. The psychodiagnostic toolkit consisted of the following techniques: the method of diagnosing the level of emotional “burnout” according to V. Boiko for studying the components of “emotional burnout” (tension, resistance, exhaustion), O. Kokun’s questionnaire “Professional vitality” in the context of revealing the components of vitality (control, inclusion, acceptance of a challenge (control, commitment, challenge)) and M. Rokych’s questionnaire “Value orientations” to outline the rank list of volunteers’ values. The results of the research. Involvement of volunteers in various events and programs changes their value priorities from the values of personal life (love, happy family life, productive life) to the values of self-realization and moral responsibility (interesting work, material status, honesty, tolerance, etc.). One of the important factors is the formation and development of civic competence. Conlusions. According to the results of the research, it was determined that participation in volunteer activities contributes to the development of the professionalism of the future social worker, such values as tolerance, patience, an active lifestyle, responsibility. Personal qualities that need to be developed and improved play an important role in this process. Волонтерську роботу складно охарактеризувати як легку, оскільки вона вимагає від людей великої відповідальності, енергетичних витрат, емоційної включеності та здатності швидко адаптуватися до ситуацій підвищеної складності. Зростає потреба у вивченні характеристик стійкості волонтерів.

How Does Tourist Guides’ Sense of Trust in Travel Agencies Affect Their Sustainable Performance? Mediating Role of Professional Vitality

The current study aimed to detect the effect of tourist guides’ trust in travel agencies on their sustainable performance and test the mediating role of professional vitality in this relationship. In this context, field study was conducted on tourist guides throughout Turkey and 381 questionnaires were collected. The hypotheses were tested with structural equation modeling. The analysis showed that tourist guides’ trust in travel agencies increased their sustainable performance and professional vitality. In addition, the professional vitality of tourist guides positively affected their sustainable performance. Finally, it has been determined that professional vitality was a prominent mediator in the relationship between tourist guides’ trust in travel agencies and sustainable performance.

Kimlikleştirmenin (Benlikle Bütünleştirme) Mesleki Canlılığa Etkisi: Eczacılar Üzerine Bir Araştırma

Günümüz iş yaşamında istenilen verimin elde edilmesinde insan kaynağının gücü yadsınamamaktadır. İşin maddi ihtiyaçlar yanında manevi ihtiyaçları da karşılaması önemli bir olgu haline gelmiştir. Çalışanın işini severek, isteyerek ve benimseyerek yapması, kendisini örgütün bir parçası olarak görmesi ile mümkün olmaktadır. Böylece yapılan iş ile çalışan özdeşleşmektedir. İşi ile bütünleşen çalışan aynı zamanda işine karşı hevesli ve enerji ile dolmakta, işinde yaratıcı ve canlı hale gelmektedir. Mesleğini icra ederken dinç ve güçlü olmaktadır. Bu kavramlar mesleki canlılığa ilişkin ipuçlarını oluşturmaktadır. Çalışmada psikolojik sahiplenmenin kimlikleştirme/benlikle bütünleştirme boyutunun mesleki canlılığa etkisi araştırılmak istenmiştir. Araştırmanın örneklem grubunu Samsun ilinde görev yapan 149 eczacı oluşturmaktadır. Araştırma verileri anket yöntemiyle elde edilmiş, veriler SPSS ve LISREL programları ile analiz edilmiştir. Elde edilen veriler ışığında eczacıların meslekleri ile bütünleşmelerinin mesleki canlılık düzeyleri üzerinde anlamlı bir etkisinin olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır.

Penerapan Model Kirkpatrick Dalam Mengevaluasi Pelaksanaan Diklat Penguatan Kepala Sekolah Melalui Daring Dari Perspektif Pengajar

<p class="abstrak"><em>This study aims to determine the extent to which the implementation of online PKS training is successful. His study used an evaluation with Kirkpatrick's model approach to measure aspects of reaction, learning, behavior and results. As a result, 91.65 percent of training participants showed a high positive reaction to the implementation of the training, and all participants showed behavioral changes in attitudes and actions when carrying out the task of managing the learning and education process in schools. In addition, using non-parametric Mann-Whitney analysis, it can be concluded that there has been an increase in the knowledge of PKS training participants on the aspects of managerial abilities, entrepreneurial development and supervisory skills. The results of the study explained that all training participants passed the training with very satisfying results. Thus, the online mode PKS training has been implemented and resulted in strengthening the capacity of school principals in various required competencies. It is recommended, for the next implementation, it should focus on using pedagogical flexibility to produce a profile of school principals who have a professional vitality construction.</em></p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong>: <em>Capacity Building, Kirkpatrick Model and PKS Training.</em>

DOES PROFESSIONAL VITALITY OF HEALTH CARE WORKERS CHANGE THEIR LEARNED HELPLESSNESS?

This study was conducted to determine the effects of professional vitality levels on learned helplessness of healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic process. This descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out with 200 healthcare workers using the Personal Information Form, Professional Vitality Scale and Learned Despair Scale. SPSS 21 and AMOS 22 programs were used in the analysis of the data. In the evaluation of the data; percentage, average, Pearson correlation analysis, simple and multiple regression analysis methods were preferred. The significance level of the data was considered to be significant at the level of p

Increasing student success through in-class resilience education

Student performance can be affected by internal and external stressors, so we explored the effects of an experiential psychiatric/mental health nursing class designed to present methods of stress reduction. Mixed methods to assess the effects of experiential learning about self-care in a baccalaureate psychiatric nursing class were used with 113 nursing students.Students were exposed in class each week to one of 6 techniques: deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, mindfulness & exercise, aromatherapy, guided imagery, and yoga. Students used the method at home and journaled about the experience weekly. Journals and free-text responses from a post-intervention assessment were examined with qualitative content analysis. The Beck Anxiety Inventory, the Ten-Item Personality Inventory, and the Skovholt Practitioner Professional Resiliency and Self-Care inventory were used. Moderate to strong negative correlations between emotional stability (Ten-Item) and anxiety scores (Beck) was seen. Themes included physical/emotional effects of stress, lack of control during nursing school, and fears about communicating with psychiatric patients. Preferred coping methods were easy to perform, portable, and low cost; students used them to alleviate anxiety and promote relaxation before sleep. Family/friend support and self-care promoted professional vitality. Lack of time for self-care, sleep problems, and financial problems were negatives for students.

The University of Kansas School of Medicine.

The University of Kansas School of Medicine.

Investigation of Corporate Sports Centers Instructors in Terms of Professional Vitality, Leader Effectiveness, Self Control and Self Management

Investigation of Corporate Sports Centers Instructors in Terms of Professional Vitality, Leader Effectiveness, Self Control and Self Management

Determinants and Outcomes of Professional Vitality: Evidence from China

The processes underlying professional vitality in the workplace based on organizational variables such as perceived organizational support and career satisfaction, have received little attention from researchers. We proposed professional vitality as a positive dimension in career development and empirically examined its determinants and outcomes. Within our conceptual framework, light was shed on the effect of professional vitality as a critical component in career satisfaction. We collected data from 218 students enrolled part-time in the Master of Business Administration course at a large public university in China. The results showed that perceived organizational support and trust were closely connected to the students' professional vitality and career satisfaction. Moreover, we found that professional vitality played a partial mediating role between perceived organizational support, trust, and career satisfaction. The theoretical and practical implications for future research are discussed.

Determinants and Outcomes of Professional Vitality: Evidence from China

The processes underlying professional vitality in the workplace based on organizational variables such as perceived organizational support and career satisfaction, have received little attention from researchers. We proposed professional vitality as a positive dimension in career development and empirically examined its determinants and outcomes. Within our conceptual framework, light was shed on the effect of professional vitality as a critical component in career satisfaction. We collected data from 218 students enrolled part-time in the Master of Business Administration course at a large public university in China. The results showed that perceived organizational support and trust were closely connected to the students’ professional vitality and career satisfaction. Moreover, we found that professional vitality played a partial mediating role between perceived organizational support, trust, and career satisfaction. The theoretical and practical implications for future research are discussed.

Professional vitality and career success: Mediation, age and outcomes

We propose a model that explains the complex phenomenon of successful career at work, and focuses on the antecedents of professional vitality at the workplace. The model sheds light on the role of professional vitality as an essential ingredient for successful careers. Using a survey design, we tested our model with a sample of 545 managers and professionals. The findings suggest effects of career attitudes on career outcomes, mediated by professional vitality. The relationship between professional vitality and age at work environment forms an inverse U shape curve, peaking at age of fifties, an optimistic note for the global aging workforce.

Career attitudes and success of managers: the impact of chance event, protean, and traditional careers

We propose a career model that focuses on the antecedents of career success for managers and professionals within organizations. The model includes constructs rarely represented in the literature, and is based on conservation of resources theory. Testing our model with a sample of 545 managers, we found significant effect of positive and negative social capital, perception of organizational politics, professional vitality, and protean career attitude on internal and external career success, mediated by organizational commitment and met expectations, and moderated by chance event effect. This original contribution includes incorporating new constructs and concentrates upon factors enabling support for successful careers.

Virtual Peer Mentoring (VPM) Might Facilitate the Entire EBLIP Process

Implications for Practice
 • Virtual Peer Mentoring (VPM) is one possible means for maintaining one’s continuous professional vitality.
 • Mentoring relationships can thrive despite boundary crossings or multiple relationships provided both participants uphold ethical principles.
 • Virtual peer mentoring is a possible response to the short supply of high level professionals with time to mentor junior staff.
 Implications for Research
 • Professional associations must take the lead in identifying the most important and answerable questions facing our profession.
 • Where authoritative evidence does not exist for an informed decision a mentor may advise a protégé on the potential for further research
 • Despite scarce research on Virtual Peer Mentoring, we can infer guidance from similar research on distance learning and collaborations.

Taking care of ourselves: Managing stress, preventing burnout

Work in psychiatry can be highly rewarding, interesting, and challenging in a positive sense. On the other hand, we are confronted with an array of psychosocial stressors. Caring for others lies at the heart of our profession: the focus is on the needs of patients. And rightly so. Nevertheless, this involves the risk that providers' own needs get out of sight.This course provides a forum for openly discussing work-related stress and coping strategies. Participants will learn to recognise their own “warning signs” of excessive stress, as well as develop strategies to successfully handle stressful situations, based on their own practical experiences. The course further addresses consequences of stress, such as the risk to develop physical health problems or burnout. Instruments to gauge one's own burnout risk and stress coping pattern will be available for a self-assessment.Learning goals:• Understanding stress mechanisms and our own reactions to stress.• Noticing one's own stress level.• Gauging the risk for burnout: Where do I stand?• Coping with stress: What helps?Methods• Interactive teaching• Exercises• Group work• Stress and burnout self assessment• Guided discussionTarget group:This course is open to all participants, but particularly addresses young psychiatrists. Young psychiatrists entering the field even experience elevated stressors. At the same time, starting out in the job is a good moment to develop self-care strategies – that are essential to maintain professional vitality and effectiveness in the long run.

Arthur Miller: his life and work

The sole and definitive biography of the greatest living American playwright. Arthur Miller has been delivering powerful drama to the stage for decades with such masterpieces as Death of a Salesman . But, remarkably, no one has yet told the full story of Miller's own extraordinary life-a rich life, much of it shrouded from public view. To achieve this groundbreaking portrait of the artist and the man, the award-winning drama critic and biographer Martin Gottfried masterfully draws on his interviews with those who have known Miller throughout his personal and professional life, on Miller's voluminous lifelong correspondence, and on the annotated scripts and notebooks that reveal Miller's creative process in stunning detail. From Miller's childhood and adolescence in Depression-era New York City to his formative college years in Michiganfrom the numerous early professional rejections to t he 1947 play All My Sons that established him as a voice to be reckoned withfrom his heroic defiance of the House Un-American Activities Committee during the McCarthy years to his most unlikely pairing with Marilyn Monroe from political and social activism on the world stage to an extraordinary professional vitality even as he turns 88 in October 2003 (he is still writing plays, and stage revivals and film adaptations of his classics proliferate): here is a dazzling book-a literary event of the first order.

Gerard Noiriel's Pragmatic Quest for Paradigms

Historians have always disagreed about the causes and consequences of past events, but Gerard Noiriel argues in his important recent book that they now differ even more profoundly in their views of the social and intellectual objectives of their professional lives.' Although many historians might welcome these increasingly diverse social identities and research methodologies as signs of professional vitality, Noiriel worries that fragmentation and theoretical critiques are threatening both the social and the intellectual coherence of the contemporary historical profession. His book describes this historical and also proposes a new conception of historical work that could sustain the unified professional identity that he thinks is needed in an era of stagnating financial support and postmodern epistemological skepticism. Noiriel's descriptions of the crisis as well as his desire for pragmatic solutions resemble comparable professional commentaries among American historians, and one of the striking features of his book emerges in his use of American examples to explain current dangers and his use of American philosophical traditions to construct a new professional paradigm. Sur la ?rise de l'histoire is mostly about France, but the cross-cultural themes suggest that the among historians and the possible responses to it grow out of an international culture of historians and historical work. Like many historians in Europe and America, Noiriel wants to reconstruct a unifying professional paradigm while acknowledging the force of criticisms that have undermined powerful earlier beliefs in scientific history. He thus rec-

The Folio of White, Smith and Company

The publication of music and the manufacture of instruments and their marketing are essential components of America's cultural growth. Not least among the multiple aspects of our professional vitality are periodicals chronicling events of the day, which, in turn, will become the material of history. Musical periodicals serve a variety of interests. Among the more narrowly purposed are the house organs designed to promote a firm's particular wares while conveying random intelligence. The Folio (1869-95), published by White, Smith and Company of Boston, was one of the most successful of all such journals, enjoying during its heyday the largest circulation of any American musical journal of whatever type, publishing some of our most popular songs, and always serving as a champion of the American composer. It may be contrasted with Brainard's (Western) Musical World (1864-95) of Cleveland, a house organ almost exactly concurrent with The Folio, generally considered to be a periodical of greater intellectual substance, and with Dwight's Journal of Music (1852-82), which reported the European scene and events in America relating to Europe and to European music. The Folio disregarded Europe in favor of the native voice.' Charles Albert White (1829-92) was born in Dighton (near Taunton), Massachusetts.2 His father and grandfather fought in the Revolution and successive members of his family achieved renown. Early on, while he was teaching at the U.S. Naval Academy, Newport, Rhode Island, several of his songs were issued by Ditson.3 Believing that it was difficult for Americans of the 1860s to obtain publication, at least for his type of composition, White joined William Francis Smith (184091), who had worked at Ditson's, and John Frank Perry of New Bedford, to form

Personal Growth Alternatives for Engineers in Pyramidal Organizations

The author wants to make you more aware of new ways of thinking about things you have been doing right along to achieve career satisfaction and success. Engineers with adequate abilities may see no opportunity for growth; other engineers may expect growth but be unaware of their loss of professional vitality. In either case, a thwarting of personal growth is felt. The ogre, pyramidal organizational structures, contributes to the frustration of an engineer who wants to grow. Failure to distinguish options to pursue different objectives, as contrasted to options of different ways to pursue an objective, clouds awaeness of choices that truly exist.