Publications by authors named "Vania Sofia Carvalho"

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  • * A meta-analysis of 51 reviewed articles identified key factors affecting peacekeepers, such as family and military support being resources, while single marital status, female gender, and longer time since deployment pose risks.
  • * The analysis highlighted that while some factors like combat exposure are unavoidable, improving coping strategies, social support, and perceptions about deployment could help prevent PTSD in peacekeepers; however, the findings have limitations such as potential publication bias.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, telework emerged as a pivotal strategy to mitigate the spread of the virus. However, telework's feasibility was contingent on job roles. This gave rise to two distinct groups: teleworkers and on-site workers.

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Background: This study aimed to explore the role of psychological detachment from work in the relationship of boundary violations and flourishing, as well as gender differences among university teachers during mandatory telework. We developed and tested a moderate mediation model where psychological detachment was the explanatory mechanism of the relationship between boundary violations with flourishing and using gender as the moderating variable.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with a sample of 921 Brazilian university teachers (mean age 44 years, 681 women and 240 men) during mandatory telework.

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  • The study examines how military personnel managing boundaries between work and personal life during humanitarian missions affects their overall well-being.
  • Using data from 327 military personnel, it identifies different profiles based on the alignment of their desired work-family segmentation with what they actually practice.
  • Results show that those with a good fit between their preferences and enacted boundaries experience better well-being, while those with mismatched profiles report higher exhaustion and lower engagement.
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  • Researchers studied how different cultures affect work and family life, especially in places like Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia that haven't been looked at much before.
  • They focused on something called humane orientation, which means how much people care about supporting each other, and found it plays a big role in work-family relationships.
  • In cultures where people are less supportive, having help from supervisors and coworkers really helps reduce conflicts between work and family, while in more supportive cultures, workplace help leads to better balance and positive feelings between work and home.
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A growing number of studies have tested the relationship between personal resources (e.g. emotional intelligence) and indicators of occupational well-being, including work engagement.

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The imposition of telework due to the COVID-19 pandemic brought with it the need for individuals to readjust their work-non-work boundaries. In this crisis situation, individuals' needs to manage these boundaries may have been influenced by contextual factors, such as family-supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSB) and macro-structural aspects, such as the country to which the teleworkers belong. This study tests the mediating effect of boundary control on the relationship between FSSB and satisfaction with life and examines the moderating effect of the country (Pakistan vs.

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Unlabelled: In an unprecedented fashion, COVID-19 has impacted the work-family interface since March 2020. As one of the COVID-19 pandemic consequences, remote work became widely adopted. Furthermore, it is expected that other pandemics will occur in the future.

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  • The study examined the impact of organizational affective commitment on employees' wellbeing, revealing that higher commitment reduces burnout and enhances work engagement.
  • Burnout was identified as a mediating factor in how affective commitment influences overall health, aligning with the Conservation of Resources Theory.
  • The research suggests that while work engagement is beneficial, it does not necessarily safeguard against health issues, highlighting important considerations for organizational health policies and interventions.
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It is broadly acknowledged that contact center employees are subject to high levels of stress. In this profession, there is a distinction between back-office and front-office employees. In addition, employees may perform duties in various companies with different characteristics (i.

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Based on the work-family enrichment theory, this study analyzes the contribution of work-family and family-work enrichment to explain the military's well-being during a peacekeeping mission. The data used were collected in a sample of 306 Brazilian soldiers, who were married and/or had children, during the phase named "employment of troops" (i.e.

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This study used a cross-sectional design and a person-centered approach in order to test the addictive and interactive strain hypotheses of Job Demands-Control Model to explain burnout. A large sample ( = 6357) of Portuguese workers (nurses, bank employees, retail traders, and contact center agents) was used. Through latent profile analysis (LPA), first latent profiles of demands and control were identified and then it was examined how these profiles differed in workplace well-being (engagement and burnout) through an ANCOVA.

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Previous studies on the work-family relationship have analyzed the influence of work-family conflict and work-family enrichment on an individuals' lives, namely on their well-being and health. Besides, attempts have been made to analyze the influence of other aspects of the labor context on this relationship, such as job insecurity. However, few have analyzed this relationship and interaction from a longitudinal perspective.

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Research has shown that affective commitment, one of three components of organizational commitment defined by Meyer and Allen (1991), can act as a moderator in relationships between job stressors and worker´s psychological tension. However, due to the scarcity of studies that investigate the moderating effect of this commitment component on relationships between positive variables, the purpose of this study is to examine the moderating role of affective commitment in the relationship between autonomy, peer support, supervisory support and perceived organizational support (POS), as job resources, on engagement. In this sense, we analyzed the data provided by a sample of Portuguese employees (N = 554), from an organization belonging to the consultancy sector.

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This study aims to analyze the role of emotional intelligence as a predictor of health students' well-being (i.e., burnout and life satisfaction) over time.

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This article aims to analyze work-to-family conflict (WFC) and enrichment (WFE) profiles related to job characteristics and well-being at work and general well-being. A cross-sectional survey data of 1885 employees was analyzed. The Latent Profile Analysis revealed that the five-profile solution exhibited strong statistical significance (p > .

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The psychometric properties of Wong and Law's (2002) Emotional Intelligence Scale (WLEIS) were analyzed. Participants were 954 medical students: 481 from the University of Extremadura (Spain) and 473 from the University of Lisbon (Portugal). Following Messicks' validation framework, we analyzed the scale's response process, internal structure and relationship with other variables (i.

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Objective: The development of work-family conflict over time was analyzed using Conservation of Resources Theory.

Method: The reciprocal effect between work-family conflict and employee well-being was tested with cross-lagged analyses on the basis of three waves. The sample comprised 713 employees of a Portuguese service organization.

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