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Original Articles

Why resilient workers perform better: The roles of job satisfaction and work engagement

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Pages 43-62 | Received 03 Aug 2017, Accepted 09 Feb 2018, Published online: 13 Apr 2018
 

ABSTRACT

Previous studies have confirmed correlations between resilience and job performance, but surprisingly little is known about the nature of this relationship. This study sheds light on the roles of two important positive dimensions of work-related well-being: job satisfaction and work engagement. Data were collected from 360 Czech workers in helping professions using an online survey. Levels of resilience and perceived job performance were indeed positively associated. Using structural equation modeling, the best-fitting model showed partial mediation by work engagement; conversely, job satisfaction was not found to be a mediator of this relationship. Additionally, the finding that job performance is related more strongly to work engagement than to job satisfaction contributes to the debate about the concurrent validity of job attitudes.

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Descriptive statistics for all parcels and items of job satisfaction and correlations between them can be obtained from the first author.

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