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Individuals' confidence in their ability to effectively use digital technologies, termed Digital Self-Efficacy (DSE), has become essential in today's workplace, especially with the rise of remote work and increasing reliance on technology. However, the relationships among DSE, job stressors, and Psychological Detachment (PD) are still not fully understood. This study examines the moderating role of DSE in the relationship between Work Intensification (WI), Role Ambiguity (RA), Organizational Support (OS), and PD. Using PLS-SEM, we analyzed data from 653 workers in Ecuador. The findings confirmed the expected negative impact of WI and the positive influence of OS on PD. Interestingly, a positive relationship between RA and PD was observed, contrary to initial expectations. The study also revealed differences between workers who underwent Self-directed versus Directed digital competence training. These results contribute to a deeper understanding of the role digital skills play in managing job stress and fostering recovery in modern work environments.

The importance of Digital Self-Efficacy is likely to grow as digital technology becomes increasingly widespread. To succeed in today’s digital world, it is essential for people to have a strong belief in their ability to effectively use digital technologies. Therefore, it is necessary for researchers to have adequate instruments to measure them in different populations. The Digital Self-Efficacy Scale offers an innovative technology-independent approach. It provides a multidimensional assessment grounded in the DigComp framework, allowing adaptability and facilitating comparison across diverse demographics. This study examined the validity and reliability of the Spanish-adapted version of the Digital Self-Efficacy for Equatorian workers. The results from a sample of 471 participants, with a gender-balanced distribution (43.74% female and 55.41% male) and a mean age of 34 years, showed that this translated 19-item scale is a valid and reliable measure of this construct. Nomological network analysis with SEM showed that Digital Self-Efficacy had a positive and significant association with task-technology fit and the use of technology. This suggests that workers with higher levels of Digital Self-Efficacy are more likely to use technology effectively and efficiently and that they are more likely to find technology that is a good fit for their tasks.

This study aims to test the theoretical model of career adaptability of refugees to investigate the dynamics of successful resettlement. The theoretical model is grounded on career construction and social network theory. We employ quantitative and qualitative methodologies to test the model in a sample of Venezuelans living and working in Colombia. The quantitative results provide partial support for Campion’s model. However, we test an alternative model and find that career adaptability has a direct relationship with subjective resettlement (i.e., life satisfaction and psychological health). In addition, cultural identification plays a buffering role on the harmful effects of discrimination on subjective resettlement. Qualitative results from eight in-depth interviews shed light on the process of refugee resettlement, thus revealing the role of social networks. Our study contributes to previous research on refugees by testing, adapting, and expanding a novel model of work resettlement and focusing on a group of refugees transitioning from one emerging country to another emerging country.

Uno de los principales objetivos de la psicología del trabajo y de las organizaciones es promover tanto el bienestar como el rendimiento de los empleados. Sin embargo, el yugo de la crisis económica actual tiraniza este objetivo, amenazando sin piedad la sostenibilidad del bienestar y del rendimiento alcanzado en décadas anteriores. El decremento en uno de esos factores puede afectar el otro, dando lugar a un círculo vicioso. En este contexto, uno de los mayores retos para los psicólogos organizacionales es convertir esta tendencia en un círculo virtuoso, en el que promover altos niveles de bienestar en el trabajo suponga una mejora del rendimiento y vice-versa, lo que en este trabajo denominamos “sinergia del bienestar-productivo sostenible”. Sin embargo, estudios anteriores no han obtenido resultados concluyentes al respecto. La falta de rigor y de consideración de las conceptualizaciones más contemporáneas del bienestar y el rendimiento laboral, como praxis común, son parte de la causa de esos resultados. El objetivo del presente trabajo es proporcionar una revisión de los estudios previos, que permita sustentar una nueva reformulación del concepto de bienestar y de productividad. También se plantea integrar los conceptos más contemporáneos, revisando la “tesis del trabajador feliz y productivo” y utilizando como marco de referencia la teoría de emociones positivas de la “ampliación y construcción” de Fredrickson. Finalmente, se discute la adecuación y la sostenibilidad de modelos alternativos sobre el “trabajador infeliz y productivo” y el “trabajador feliz e improductivo”.

One of the main goals of work and organizational psychology is to promote the well-being and performance of employees. Nevertheless, the yoke of the current economic crisis tyrannizes this aim, mercilessly threating the sustainability of the well-being and performance achieved in previous decades. The decrease in one of these factors may hamper the other, resulting in a vicious circle. In this context, one of the biggest challenges faced by organizational psychologists is to reverse this trend in a virtuous cycle, where promoting high levels of well-being creates a performance improvement and vice-versa, in a “sustainable well-being-productivity synergy sustainable productivity and well-being synergy”. However, previous efforts have shown inconclusive results. We argue that the neglectfulness and lack of rigorousness of the most contemporaneous conceptualizations of well-being and job performance, as common praxis, are part of the reason for these disappointing results. The aim of the present paper is to provide a review of the contributions and efforts to the new reformulation of the concept of well-being and productivity. It also aims to integrate the most contemporaneous concepts of well-being and job performance, revisiting the “happy productive-worker thesis”, and using as framework Fredrickson’s broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions, where the suitability and sustainability of the alternative models of “unhappy-productive worker” and “happy-unproductive worker” will be discussed.

Un modelo integrado de motivación en el trabajo (ASH-Mot) se puso a prueba en una muestra multicultural mediante el análisis de la validez de constructo y convergente. Este modelo integra, dentro de una red de relaciones, varios constructos motivacionales que operan a distintos niveles: necesidades, instrumentalidad, creencias de auto-eficacia, equidad y estados psicológicos críticos (conocimiento de los resultados, responsabilidad y significado). Dos estudios transversales se llevaron a cabo. En el primero participaron cuatro muestras diferentes de Chile, España, Inglaterra y Portugal. La validez de constructo de los instrumentos de medición se estudió por medio del AFC. En el segundo estudio, participó una muestra de México; se analizó la convergencia entre la medida de motivación propuesto por el ASH-Mot y otras medidas de motivación. Los resultados fueron positivos; reveló altos índices de ajuste entre los datos y el modelo teórico (valores superiores a 0,90 y residuos inferiores a 0,08), así como una alta convergencia entre las diferentes medidas de motivación (correlaciones superiores a 0,6). El modelo de ASH-Mot muestra unos valores adecuados de validez de sus herramientas y, más importante, proporciona información clave para la adaptación de las intervenciones una vez que los bajos niveles de motivación han sido detectados.