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Marta Roczniewska1,2, Anna Rogala3, Malwina Puchalska-Kaminska3
1Faculty of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Sopot, Poland.
Job crafting self-efficacy (JCSE) is an individual's belief in their ability to modify their job. This study developed and validated a scale to measure JCSE, finding it predicts job crafting behaviors effectively.
Area of Science:
- Organizational Psychology
- Vocational Psychology
- Social Cognition
Background:
- Job crafting, a proactive employee behavior, enhances well-being and organizational outcomes.
- Predicting job crafting requires understanding individual capabilities, such as self-efficacy.
- Existing measures do not specifically capture the belief in one's ability to craft their job.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and validate a reliable and valid scale to measure job crafting self-efficacy (JCSE).
- To examine the psychometric properties of the JCSE scale across different samples and methods.
- To investigate the relationship between JCSE, general self-efficacy, and job crafting behaviors.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative study for initial scale item generation.
- Four quantitative studies involving Polish and American employees (N = 1542 total).
- Confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) to establish scale structure and psychometric properties (reliability, validity, stability).
Main Results:
- A 3-factor structure of JCSE emerged: increasing structural job resources, social job resources, and challenging job demands.
- The 9-item JCSE Scale demonstrated good internal consistency, time stability, and construct validity.
- JCSE uniquely predicted job crafting behaviors beyond general self-efficacy and contextual factors.
Conclusions:
- JCSE is a distinct and important construct for understanding job redesign behaviors.
- The validated JCSE scale offers a valuable tool for research and practice.
- Interventions aimed at empowering JCSE can enhance employees' proactive job modification capabilities.
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