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Role of Mindfulness in the Effects of Organizational Culture on Depression in Korean Physical Therapists.

Jong-Hyun Lee, Jinwon Lee, Jaejin Hwang, Du-Jin Park, Won-Jin Kim, Kyung-Sun Lee

Safety and health at work December 1, 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.shaw.2024.08.004 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Cross-sectional survey Peer reviewed
Sample size 280
Population Korean physical therapists
Topics Depression Meditation
Keywords Covid-19 Job stress Physical therapist
Citations 3
Key findings Mindfulness moderated the mediating relationship between stressful organizational culture, job and interpersonal demands, and depression, with a statistically significant conditional indirect effect.

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate whether mindfulness could mitigate the impact of job and interpersonal demands arising from stressful organizational cultures in predicting depression during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 280 Korean physical therapists participated in this study. To verify the mediated moderation model, this study implemented an SPSS 26.0 PROCESS Macro (v.3.5) that was based on the verification of Hayes' conditional indirect effect. The study confirmed the moderated mediation effect of mindfulness on the mediating relationship between stressful organizational culture, job demands/interpersonal demands, and depression. Moreover, the conditional indirect effect of mindfulness was found to be statistically significant. However, the impact on interpersonal stress differed from anticipated outcomes. Mindfulness, applicable within the framework of the Job Demands-Resources model theory, served as a resource variable and moderated the impact of organizational culture on members' depression. Amidst ongoing debates on mindfulness effectiveness, this study partially confirmed its potential within the Job Demands-Resources model, suggesting a role in mitigating the influence of organizational culture on members' depression as a resource variable.

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