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Relationship between Different Dimensions of Workplace Spirituality and Psychological Well-Being: Measuring Mediation Analysis through Conditional Process Modeling

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  • Rizwan Raheem Ahmed

    (Faculty of Management Sciences, Indus University, Gulshan 17, Karachi 75300, Pakistan)

  • Farwa Abbas Soomro

    (Faculty of Management Sciences, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Karachi 75600, Pakistan)

  • Zahid Ali Channar

    (Department of Business Administration, Sindh Madressatul Islam University, Karachi 74000, Pakistan)

  • Alharthi Rami Hashem E

    (Department of Financial and Administrative Sciences, Ranyah University College, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia)

  • Hassan Abbas Soomro

    (Department of Business Administration, Sukkur IBA, Sukkur 65200, Pakistan)

  • Munwar Hussain Pahi

    (School of Business Management, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok 06010, Malaysia)

  • Nor Zafir Md Salleh

    (Azman Hashim International Business School, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai 18310, Malaysia)

Abstract

The present study aims to identify the relationship between workplace spirituality, compassion, relationship with others at work, spiritual orientation, organizational value and alignment of personal values, and psychological well-being among universities’ teachers. Further, the mediating effect of job stress was also identified between workplace spirituality and psychological well-being. Similarly, the mediation of environmental mastery between organizational values and alignment of personal values and psychological well-being was examined. Finally, we examined the mediation of personal growth between spiritual orientation and psychological well-being. The data were collected through a structured and adapted five-point Likert scale using a purposive sampling technique, with a total sample of 873 male and female university teachers working in the private and government universities. We employed structural equation modeling to check the relationship among the considered variables for analysis purposes. The results show a strong positive relationship between the independent and dependent variables. The findings further demonstrated that the mediation analysis confirms that job stress mediates the relationship between workplace spirituality and psychological well-being, and environmental mastery mediates between organizational values and alignment of personal values and psychological well-being. Finally, personal growth mediates between spiritual orientation and psychological well-being. To maintain the excellent quality of education, educational institutes need to identify and imply the practice of workplace spirituality that will help to reduce job stress and improve the psychological well-being of universities’ teachers, thus resulting in better educational output.

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  • Rizwan Raheem Ahmed & Farwa Abbas Soomro & Zahid Ali Channar & Alharthi Rami Hashem E & Hassan Abbas Soomro & Munwar Hussain Pahi & Nor Zafir Md Salleh, 2022. "Relationship between Different Dimensions of Workplace Spirituality and Psychological Well-Being: Measuring Mediation Analysis through Conditional Process Modeling," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(18), pages 1-23, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:18:p:11244-:d:908998
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