Constructing Well-Being in Organizations: First Empirical Results on Job Crafting, Personality Traits, and Insight

Alessio Gori, Alessandro Arcioni, Eleonora Topino, Letizia Palazzeschi and Annamaria Di Fabio
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Alessio Gori: Department of Health Sciences, University of Florence, 50135 Florence, Italy
Alessandro Arcioni: Department of Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Psychology (Psychology Section), University of Florence, 50135 Florence, Italy
Eleonora Topino: Department of Human Sciences, LUMSA University of Rome, 00193 Rome, Italy
Letizia Palazzeschi: Department of Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Psychology (Psychology Section), University of Florence, 50135 Florence, Italy
Annamaria Di Fabio: Department of Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Psychology (Psychology Section), University of Florence, 50135 Florence, Italy

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 12, 1-16

Abstract: The construct of job crafting is gaining increasing attention in the research and practice of work psychology in light of the positive effects it has on workers and the organizational context. On this basis, the present study aimed to explore the associations between the Big Five personality traits and job crafting (and its subdimensions, individual job crafting and collaborative job crafting), as well as investigating the role of insight in mediating these relationships. A sample of 159 Italian workers took part in the study and completed the self-report measures. Results showed a positive association between extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness and job crafting (total), individual job crafting, and collaborative job crafting, with significant mediations of insight orientation. Openness was positively associated with job crafting (total) and individual job crafting, but not with the collaborative subdimension, with insight orientation that mediated existing relationships. Emotional stability and job crafting (total) or its subdimensions were found to have no significant relationships. These findings suggest that insight orientation could represent a promising resource for job crafting, both in terms of primary prevention, strength-based prevention, and healthy organizations.

Keywords: job crafting; personality traits; insight orientation; mediation analysis; well-being (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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