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Psychological Stress and Employee Engagement

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Employee engagement; Occupational stress, health, and well-being; Psychological distress; Psychological engagement; Work engagement

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Work engagement was initially defined by Kahn (1990, p. 694) as “the harnessing of organization members’ selves to their work roles by which they employ and express themselves physically, cognitively, and emotionally during role performances.” More recently, the most adopted definition of work engagement refers to “a positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind that can be categorised into vigour, dedication and absorption” (Schaufeli et al. 2002, p. 74). Vigor can be described in terms of energy and resilience: workers who find their jobs energizing are willing to persevere in the face of difficulties and challenges. Dedication is a sense of pride in one’s job and a feeling that it is meaningful, significant, and inspiring. Last, absorption is characterized by employees who are fully occupied and unreservedly engrossed in their...

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  1. QUT Business School, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Sukanlaya Sawang & Cameron John Newton

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Sawang, S., Newton, C.J. (2023). Psychological Stress and Employee Engagement. In: Maggino, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17299-1_4118

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