Browsing by Subject "Mindfulness"
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ItemThe influences of mindfulness on foreign language fluency mediated by irrational thoughts, foreign language anxiety and self-efficacy on Thai English learnersThis study investigated the impact of selected psychosocial factors on the foreign language fluency among Thai people. The influences between mindfulness, irrational thoughts, foreign language anxiety, self-efficacy, and foreign language fluency were explored. The confirmatory factor analysis revealed that fear of non-achievement, concern over mistake, perfectionistic cognition, and inferiority feeling were better explained by the second-order latent factor- irrational thoughts. The SEM analysis of the sample of 1,358 Thai students and office workers revealed that mindfulness both directly and indirectly influenced irrational thoughts (comprised of fear of non-achievement, concern over mistake, perfectionistic cognition, and inferiority feeling), foreign language anxiety, self-efficacy and foreign language fluency. Mindfulness was found to have a negative relationship with foreign language anxiety; and foreign language anxiety also had an adverse effect on self-efficacy and foreign language fluency. This research contributes to foreign language learning by revealing the role of mindfulness to help Thai learners better aware of their negative thoughts which lead to foreign language anxiety, as well as to help enhance a Thai person’s belief in his/her ability to fluently communicate in a foreign language. It also provides insight knowledge to behavioral science by explaining the influences of mindfulness on a person’s irrational thoughts, anxiety, self-efficacy and fluent or proficient performances in general.
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ItemJOB PERFORMANCE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING OF THAI HOTEL WORKERS: A MULTI-MODEL PATH ANALYTIC STUDY( 2017) Raich, Annett ; Ho, RobertJob performance and the psychological well-being of employees are of paramount importance for a successful company. Especially in the hospitality industry in a country like Thailand where tourism plays a major role in the growth and sustainment of a healthy Thai economy, it is imperative to identify what and how certain factors may influence job performance and psychological well-being of employees. In order to achieve this aim, the present study posited and investigated a comprehensive process model to determine the direct and indirect influences of the Big Five personality traits of emotional stability, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness on job performance and psychological well-being among Thai hotel workers, being mediated by their level of stress, burnout, mindfulness, and job satisfaction. A total of 1,512 participants (793 females and 719 males) between 18 and 60 years working in 16 international five-star hotels in Thailand took part in the study. The results revealed that the participants’ Big Five personality traits played major roles in reducing their perceived stress and burnout, increasing their levels of mindfulness and job satisfaction and, subsequently, increasing their job performance and life satisfaction. The study’s limitations, implications, and avenues for further research were discussed.
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ItemMindfulness practice as a means to increase happiness and enhance service employees' work performance in hotels/resorts in Southern ThailandThe objective of this study is to present the improvement of employees’ work performance in the hospitality industry in Thailand after mindfulness implementation, including some successful cases and factors contributing towards better work performance. A qualitative approach was applied to this research based on observations of all employees (n=50) through an "Open Space/Marketplace" workshop and interviews of all supervisors and some randomly selected employees (n = 22) according to their availability. The findings identified 3 major areas of improvement: participation in terms of communication; patients' understanding; and prioritization (planning). The study focused on all employees working at the organization. The results show how mindful practices can be used in an organization and how they can help people change in certain ways. This leads to better team performance and big improvements in the organization's overall performance.
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ItemThe Mediating Role of Psychological Distress on the Relationship of Mindfulness and Social Support on Psychological Well-Being Among Private Hospital Nurses in Kerala, IndiaThe present study aimed to investigate the effect of mindfulness and social support on the psychological wellbeing of private hospital nurses in Kerala, India, mediated by psychological distress. Data were collected through a survey of 1050 nurses workingin private hospitals in Kerala, India. The mediation analysis was carried out using Andrew Hayes Process Macro. The results of the mediation analysis indicated that psychological distress partially mediated the relationship of mindfulness, and social support on psychological well-being. Statistical evidence indicated that the higher levels of mindfulness and social support experienced by these nurses in Kerala reported to have lower psychological distress and lower the psychological distress, better were their psychological well-being. The nurses in private hospitals of Kerala have various challenges including long working hours,physical strain, exposure to human suffering and high job demands that necessitate constant vigilance in a complex and potentially chaotic environment.In light of these findings, it is suggested thatprivatehospital administrators allocate resources to promote mindfulness and social support as part of an incentive and staff development program for their nurses. The hospital administration can augment their employees' psychological well-being, in spite of the taxing job demands that they are driven through to achieve relatively high productivity. One who has a balanced psychological wellbeing will tend to administer their duties nearer to perfection and as such, all stakeholdersof the hospital industry would be happy and satisfied.