Moderating-mediating effect of religious spirituality and work engagement: antecedents of job performance

The effectiveness of nursing practices resulting in decreasing patient waiting time, increasing patients’ satisfaction, as well as sustaining high-quality healthcare delivery as a whole. Thus, it is crucial to evaluate nurses’ performance in taking an active part to act quickly and effectively. Yet, patients’ satisfaction is no longer limited to diagnosis and treatment, but services and care they receive. Caring processes have a major influence in controlling patient experiences and formulating their expectations as well as their perceptions of nursing performance. Therefore, this study incorporated the caring process into nurses' performance criteria and aimed to recognize contributing factors to nurses’ job performance. Precisely, this study examines the relationship between workload (WL), supervisor support (SS), moral competence (MC), work engagement (WE), and job performance (JP). This study treated WE as a mediating variable between WL, SS, MC, and JP. This study also incorporated the moderating effect of religious spirituality (RS) on the relationship between WL, SS, MC, and WE due to the inconsistent findings of previous studies that were found. A quantitative research design was conducted. Data were collected from four general hospitals in Peninsular Malaysia using a cross-sectional method. 718 questionnaires were distributed to 718 Staff Nurses who were sampled using a non-proportional quota sampling technique. Smart-PLS 3.2.8 was used in testing the study hypotheses. The statistical results of this study indicated that only the direct relationship between MC and JP as well as the direct relationship between WL, SS, and MC on WE were supported. The result also supports the positive significant relationship between WE and JP. In terms of mediation effect, WE only mediate the relationship between SS, MC, and JP. While for the moderation results, RS was only found to have a significant moderating role in the relationship between SS and WE. Based on the findings, hospitals’ management should give more focus on nurses’ job demands-resources and personal resources to boost their work engagement as well as enhancing their job performance. Finally, the implications, limitations of the study, and future research direction were also discussed in this study

Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements

The Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements offers a multinational study of Islam, its variants, influences, and neighbouring movements, from a multidisciplinary range of scholars. These chapters highlight the diversity of Islam, especially in its contemporary manifestations, as a religion of many communities, theologies, and ideologies. Over five sections—on Sunni, Shia, Sufi, fundamentalist, and fringe Islamic movements—the authors provide historical overviews, analyses, and in-depth studies of large and small Islamic and related groups from all around the world. The contents of this volume will be of interest to both newcomers to the study of Islam and established scholars of religion who wish to engage with the dynamic label of Islam and the many impactful movements of the Islamic world

Communication Strategy Of Professional Investigators And Safeguards (Propam) In Interrogating Police Problems In The Police Medan City

This research discusses; 1) cases of violations committed by members of the Indonesian National Police in Medan District Police 2) the communication strategy of Propam investigators in interrogating violations committed and; 3) the effectiveness of the communication strategy applied. Using qualitative research, data is collected through observation, in-depth interviews, and document studies. Data were analyzed using Miles and Huberman analysis. The results of the study revealed that during 2018 there were 116 cases of violations committed by members of the Indonesian National Police in the Poltabes area of Medan. To uncover the motives of the violation cases, Propam investigators use two communication strategies, namely persuasive communication and human communication. Two strategies are used, which are effective in uncovering the motives of cases of violations committed by members of the National Police in the Polrestabes area of Medan

Islamic and Muslim Studies in Australia

The eight articles published in this Special Issue present original, empirical research, using various methods of data collection and analysis, in relation to topics that are pertinent to the study of Islam and Muslims in Australia. The contributors include long-serving scholars in the field, mid-career researchers, and early career researchers who represent many of Australia’s universities engaged in Islamic and Muslim studies, including the Australian National University, Charles Sturt University, Deakin University, Griffith University, and the University of Newcastle. The topics covered in this Special Issue include how Muslim Australians understand Islam (Rane et al. 2020); ethical and epistemological challenges facing Islamic and Muslim studies researchers (Mansouri 2020); Islamic studies in Australia’s university sector (Keskin and Ozalp 2021); Muslim women’s access to and participation in Australia’s mosques (Ghafournia 2020); religion, belonging and active citizenship among Muslim youth in Australia (Ozalp and Ćufurović), the responses of Muslim community organizations to Islamophobia (Cheikh Hussain 2020); Muslim ethical elites (Roose 2020); and the migration experiences of Hazara Afghans (Parkes 2020)

Poverty and Prejudice

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book offers a comprehensive overview of how efforts to achieve SDGs can be enhanced by paying greater attention to freedom of religion and belief. In particular, it illustrates how poverty is often a direct result of religious prejudice and how religious identity can shape a person’s job prospects, their children’s education and the quality of public services they receive

40 perspectives on urban sustainability from around the globe

This book comprises 40 short texts by urban sustainability scholars from around the globe. The scholars are recipients of a six-month research stay grant from the Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS), a DAAD Exceed center funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). SMUS is a global network of researchers and practitioners from over 48 universities and institutions who work together to improve academic education in spatial disciplines. Through collaborative teaching, workshops, conferences, and training, network partners work across disciplines to advance urban sustainability. From September 2020 through February 2021, 40 scholars participated in the centre’s ‘Developing a PhD Proposal’ program by organising workshops, partaking in excursions, and attending classes. The classes covered topics such as research ethics and skills, spatial methods, and urban sustainability, with a focus on Sustainable Development Goal #11, which is about ‘making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’. As part of their coursework, the students were tasked with writing short texts about how the topics covered manifest themselves in their respective home countries. This book is a compilation of those country replies, giving the reader a glimpse into urban sustainability perspectives from around the globe. The book includes a series of maps depicting the geographic locations represented in the country replies. They have been included to help the reader navigate the book and to highlight the diversity of topics and themes researchers are working on in the SMUS network

Healthy snacks consumption and the Theory of Planned Behaviour. The role of anticipated regret

Two empirical studies explored the role of anticipated regret (AR) within the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) framework (Ajzen, 1991), applied to the case of healthy snacks consumption. AR captures affective reactions and it can be defined as an unpleasant emotion experienced when people realize or imagine that the present situation would be better if they had made a different decision. In this research AR refers to the expected negative feelings for not having consumed healthy snacks (i.e., inaction regret). The aims were: a) to test whether AR improves the TPB predictive power; b) to analyze whether it acts as moderator within the TPB model relationships. Two longitudinal studies were conducted. Target behaviors were: consumption of fruit and vegetables as snacks (Study 1); consumption of fruit as snacks (Study 2). At time 1, the questionnaire included measures of intention and its antecedents, according to the TPB. Both the affective and evaluative components of attitude were assessed. At time 2, self-reported consumption behaviors were surveyed. Two convenience samples of Italian adults were recruited. In hierarchical regressions, the TPB variables were added at the first step; AR was added at the second step, and the interactions at the last step. Results showed that AR significantly improved the TPB ability to predict both intentions and behaviours, also after controlling for intention. In both studies AR moderated the effect of affective attitude on intention: affective attitude was significant only for people low in AR