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Well-being among contract healthcare workers: Balancing job demands and personal resources
SA Journal of Human Resource Management. 2026. Vol. 24. Article a3385.
Contract-based healthcare workers often encounter disproportionate challenges, including job insecurity, limited opportunities for career progression, and unequal remuneration, despite performing duties comparable to those of permanent staff. This study investigates the moderating role of personal resources in the relationship between job demands and employee well-being among contract healthcare workers. Structured questionnaires were distributed to 221 contract healthcare workers at a public hospital. Moderated Regression analyses tested the direct and interaction effects of job demands and personal resources on well-being. Job demands negatively predicted well-being, while personal resources had a significant positive effect. Personal resources moderated the relationship between job demands and well-being, buffering the adverse effects of high demands. The findings emphasise the need for HR strategies that not only manage job demands but also enhance personal resources through resilience training, psychological coaching, and self-efficacy development. Such interventions promote psychological safety and workforce sustainability. This study extends the JD-R and COR frameworks by empirically confirming the moderating role of personal resources. It offers practical insights for improving well-being among contract healthcare workers in high-demand environments.
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Medushevsky A. N., Liberal.ru 2026
The Liberal Mission Foundation continues to introduce readers to new concepts of democracy and relevant publications. This discussion focuses on the challenges facing democracy in the era of globalization, as addressed in two recent books: *The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies* by S.C. Stokes (2025) and *Critical Theories and the Postsocialist Challenge: Race, ...
Added: August 26, 2026
Medushevsky A. N., Вопросы теоретической экономики 2026 № 2 С. 146–164
It is generally accepted that the basis of social and legal stability in any society is a consensus on vir tue — the fundamental values of proper behavior, ways of maintaining and reproducing them. And, conversely, the destruction of this consensus is a sign of the loss of stability and divergence of positions of social ...
Added: August 26, 2026
Vlasenko D., Saranskaia I., Zakharov D., European Physical Journal: Special Topics 2026 P. 1–16
Hypergraphs provide a natural framework for representing neurophysiological interactions distributed across sets of sensors. A key methodological question is how hyperedges should be defined from frequency-resolved electroencephalography/magnetoencephalography (EEG/MEG) data. We demonstrate a construction strategy in which hyperedges are obtained from canonical coherence (caCOH), an extension of coherence that estimates coupling between multidimensional signal spaces. To ...
Added: August 18, 2026
Diachkova M., Lelik V., Dorofeeva S. et al., Language Resources and Evaluation 2026 Vol. 60 Article 68
This article presents the Russian Language-Monolingual corpus (RusLan-M, v.1.0), a longitudinal multimedia collection of early child speech from two Russian-speaking monolingual children: Tosya (ages 0;10–3;10, 246 recordings) and Yasha (ages 1;04–3;00, 42 recordings). The corpus consists of approximately 41 h (2,454 min.) of video recordings and 35,386 child utterances, available with transcriptions in the CHAT ...
Added: August 17, 2026
Vasilieva E., Trifonova A., Bultseva M. A., Current Psychology 2026 Vol. 45 Article 1320
The current exploratory study aims to reveal identity gaps and interpersonal communication strategies used by Russians to overcome social identity crises. Based on previous research, we assume that many Russians who live both in Russia and abroad face ethnic and national identity threats and experience different social identity crises due to recent geopolitical events. This ...
Added: August 6, 2026
Ulgen H., Journal of International Students 2026 Vol. 16 No. 17 P. 283–312
This study reports a secondary analysis of phenomenologically informed, semistructured interviews with 15 Turkish undergraduate and graduate students at three universities in Moscow and examines how peer networks function beyond emotional buffering to support academic engagement and institutional navigation in Russian–medium higher education. Drawing on social support theory, communities of practice, and community cultural wealth ...
Added: August 5, 2026
A. Radygina, S. Kulikova, Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2025 Vol. 95 No. 6 P. 963–970
Musical training has a significant impact on brain organization, leading to functional and structural
adaptations that enhance auditory, visual, motor, and cognitive processes. This study investigates how
extensive musical training shapes functional brain connectivity by comparing professional musicians and
non-musicians. Using EEG phase-locking value (PLV) analysis, we examined neural synchronization across
alpha, beta, and gamma frequency ranges during music ...
Added: August 5, 2026
Zolotareva A., Социальные науки и детство 2026 Т. 7 № 2 С. 66–77
Context and relevance. Early detection of anxiety and depression symptoms is a priority task for the child and adolescent mental health system. As Russian practice traditionally relies on separate instruments, assessing anxiety and depression in isolation, there is a need for integrated instruments. Objective. To examine the factor structure of the Russian version of the ...
Added: August 4, 2026
Iskakova B., Kleinlein E. V., Prisyazhniuk D. et al., European Journal of Education 2026 Vol. 61 No. 3 Article e70810
This study examines pre-service teachers' (PSTs) attitudes towards inclusive education in Germany and Russia and investigates how they relate to teacher training curricula and teacher educators' discourse. A mixed-methods design was used, including an online survey of PSTs (n = 460) with an open-ended question, curriculum review and exploratory interviews with university educators in both contexts. The ...
Added: August 3, 2026
Reznichenko S. I., Кияненко И. К., Nartova-Bochaver S. K. et al., Экспериментальная психология 2026 Т. 19 № 2 С. 10–28
Abstract
Context and relevance. In the context of accelerated urbanization and a growing disconnect from the natural
environment, there is increasing interest in biophilic attitudes — a system of stable views, beliefs, and
evaluations that reflect a person’s relationship with living nature and shape their psychological well-being and
environmentally responsible behavior. Existing tools for their measurement, such as the ...
Added: August 3, 2026
Krivoshchekov V., Gulevich O., Frontiers In Social Psychology 2026 Vol. 4
Precarious manhood theory (PMT) explains men's compensatory responses to masculinity threats in domains such as affect, aggression, risk-taking, dominance, and social attitudes. While recent meta-analytic evidence suggests that masculinity threat has a small-to-medium average effect, recent preregistered replication work has failed to reproduce some influential masculinity-threat effects in a large representative sample, raising questions about ...
Added: July 28, 2026
Hachaturova M. R., Safonova A., Экспериментальная психология 2026 Т. 19 № 2 С. 51–66
Context and relevance. The influence of the environment on psychological well-being has been studied in a wide variety of contexts, including workplaces, schools, healthcare facilities, and digital spaces. However, the psychological well-being of university faculty, particularly in relation to their connection to the university environment in the wide sense, remains virtually unrepresented in psychological research. ...
Added: July 25, 2026
Vasiliev F., Vasilieva E., Мир психологии. Научно-методический журнал 2026 № 2 (125) С. 113–126
This study examines how various team aspects influence their evaluation
of teamwork outcomes. The research was conducted on a targeted sample in Russian
organizations. Using structural equation modeling, three groups of factors were identified:
team aspects that affected cognitive evaluation, emotional evaluation of work, and satisfaction
with the work process (team reputation and commitment); team aspects that did not ...
Added: July 22, 2026
Грудников Н. С., Пастухова Е. Г., Психология и право 2026 Т. 16 № 2 С. 198–214
Context and relevance. Mediation is a widespread form of conflict resolution with its own unique principles. Restorative justice, as a new paradigm in criminal justice, utilizes mediation as a form of implementation while adapting it to its own core concepts. Objective. The study aims to identify the differences between the value foundations of classical and ...
Added: July 22, 2026
Васильчук М. С., Шаньков Ф. М., Chumakova M. et al., Psychology. Journal of the Higher School of Economics 2021 Vol. 18 No. 2 P. 247–258
The 2019 Coronavirus disease outbreak leads to negative psychological outcomes not only for healthcare workers and patients, but also for the general public. S. Hobfoll’s Conservation of Resources theory is one of the most applicable models for conceptualizing and evaluating natural and social catastrophes and their impact. A web-based screening has been conducted at the ...
Added: June 30, 2026
Koreshnikova Y., Kholmanskaya M., Podolsky A. I., Мир психологии. Научно-методический журнал 2024 № 2(117) С. 122–135
The problem of teacher burnout is one of the most pressing issues for the Russian educational system, as it leads to a decrease in educational outcomes as well as teacher turnover. To tackle this problem, it is important to understand the factors that contribute to the development of this syndrome. The theoretical framework, methodology, and ...
Added: June 25, 2024
Kholmanskaya M., Koreshnikova Y., Podolsky A. I., Мир психологии. Научно-методический журнал 2024 № 1 (116) С. 57–73
Russian teachers experience a large amount of stress which often results in the reduction of their work engagement and causes burnout. The issue of preventing professional deformation of a teacher is substantial for science as well as for practice. Tackling this problem requires identifying factors related to burnout. The goal of this study is to ...
Added: March 18, 2024
Kolachev N., Организационная психология 2021 Т. 11 № 4 С. 165–189
Purpose. The study is devoted to the problem of the relations between personal resources with
work motivation and occupational burnout dynamics. The sample consisted of librarians from five city
public libraries (N = 266) aged from 20 to 71 years (88% women). Method. The research was conducted
over a one-year period and included three occasions with approximately six ...
Added: January 11, 2022
Акимова А. Ю., Обознов А. А., Петрович Д. Л., Вестник Тверского государственного университета. Серия: Педагогика и психология 2020 Т. 52 № 3 С. 20–35
The results of studying the structure of subjective well-being of railway specialists are presented. It is shown that the subjective professional well-being of these specialists includes four components (social and professional demand, desire for professional development, dominant emotional state, passion for work / boredom from work). Each component has its own complex structure, which reflects ...
Added: November 19, 2021
Shankov F., Chumakova M., Vasilchuk M. et al., Psychology. Journal of the Higher School of Economics 2021 Vol. 18 No. 2 P. 247–258
The 2019 Coronavirus disease outbreak leads to negative psychological outcomes not only for healthcare workers and patients, but also for the general public. S. Hobfoll’s Conservation of Resources theory is one of the most applicable models for conceptualizing and evaluating natural and social catastrophes and their impact. A web-based screening has been conducted at the ...
Added: July 5, 2021
Reknes I., Visockaite G., Liefooghe A. et al., Frontiers in Psychology 2019 Vol. 10 No. 1323 P. 1–12
Workplace bullying is regarded as one of the most devastating stressors at work for those targeted, and the bullying-mental health relationship is well-documented in the literature, even under lower levels of exposure. However, less is known about when and for whom these negative behaviors have more effect. Perceived control over outcomes in life (i.e., internal ...
Added: May 25, 2019
Shevchuk A., Strebkov D., Davis S., International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 2018 Vol. 38 No. 9/10 P. 736–753
Using unique data on freelancers participating in an online labor market (N = 9,984), we integrate work values research with the Job Demands-Resources model to assess the role that work value orientations play in self-employed workers’ subjective well-being. We find that intrinsic work values are associated with greater subjective well-being whereas extrinsic work values are ...
Added: August 30, 2018
Saari T., Melin H., Balabanova E. S. et al., Baltic Journal of Management 2017 Vol. 12 No. 2 P. 240–254
Purpose: This study examines work engagement and its antecedents in two countries: Finland and Russia.
The job demands-resources model (JD-R model) provides the background theory for the analysis.
Design/methodology/approach: This study uses a quantitative approach with a cross-sectional research
design. The data was analysed using descriptive methods and stepwise logistic regression analysis.
Findings: The overall level of work engagement ...
Added: January 26, 2017
Mandrikova E., Психология в ВУЗе 2012 № 6 С. 53–64
The review overheads the contemporary researches of work engagement at english-published journals. The work engagement is seen as no only converse phenomenon to burn-out, but also as a positive state which could be described through vigor, dedication, absorption. ...
Added: March 10, 2013