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• TITLE: The Impact of Self-Efficacy and Work Engagement on Healthcare Professionals’ Proactive Behavior

  AUTHORS: Chrysovalantis Karagkounis, Georgios Manomenidis, Charalampos G. Platis, Evgenia Minasidou, Thalia Bellali

  KEYWORDS: Job Crafting, Healthcare Professionals, Proactive Behavior, Self-Efficacy, Work Engagement

  JOURNAL NAME: Health, Vol.12 No.4, April 17, 2020

  ABSTRACT: Job crafting (JC) is a form of proactive behavior and refers to the initiatives employees that could take to change their tasks or other job characteristics to achieve the best person-job fit. JC consists of six dimensions: seeking structural and social job resources, as well as challenges, hindering job demands, optimizing job demands, and delegating tasks. The aim of the present study was to explore the impact of self-efficacy and work engagement on healthcare professionals’ (HP) proactive behavior. A convenience sample of 295 HP working in Primary and Secondary healthcare structures of Northern Greece completed a questionnaire that included: 1) demographic/occupational characteristics, 2) the Job Crafting Scale, 3) the Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE) and 4) the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES). Increased age was found to be associated with decreased levels of seeking social job resources (p