Estime de soi : un médiateur entre le sentiment d’efficacité personnelle et le bien-être positif au travail ?

Abstract

For a long time, studies have focused on poor health at work, yet it is also relevant to look at the sources of well-being at work in a positive conception of it. By questioning the relationship between the worker and his or her environment (social and physical), the positive evaluation of well-being at work considers both hedonic and eudemonic well-being in the professional context. Through an online questionnaire, 400 French-speaking employees (366 conserved) provided us with information on their relationships at work and their feelings (self-esteem and sense of personal efficacy). Through their responses, we were able to investigate the mediating role of self-esteem between feelings of personal efficacy and well-being at work. Structural equation modeling analyses show that self-esteem does indeed play a partial mediating role in the relationship between feelings of personal efficacy and well-being at work. These results reinforce the idea that a work environment that supports and encourages a sense of personal efficacy, while preserving workers’ self-esteem, is one of the levers for developing employee well-being.