Relationships between work-related characteristics, needs satisfaction, motivation and mental health in midwifery students.
The present study examined the relationships between work-related characteristics in internships, psychological needs satisfaction, motivation and mental health using a partial least squares path modeling. Midwifery students (N = 214; Mage= 22.8 years) from three French schools completed different questionnaires online. Results showed (1) the importance of work resources (work control and social support) as protective factors of psychological needs satisfaction; and (2) the role of competence need satisfaction through motivation in the relationships between work resources and mental health. Midwifery schools should pay more attention to these two results, and take them into account in midwifery students' training.
a Research Team of Psychology of Ages of Life (EA 2114), University François Rabelais , Tours , France.
Claude
C
Ferrand
a Research Team of Psychology of Ages of Life (EA 2114), University François Rabelais , Tours , France.|b CHRU de Tours, Psychiatric University Clinic , Tours , France.
Robert
R
Courtois
c Laboratoire sur les Vulnérabilités et l'Innovation dans le Sport (L-Vis) , Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , Villeurbanne , France.
Guillaume
G
Martinent
d Midwives' school of hospital Saint-Antoine , Paris , France.
Michèle
M
Rivière
e Department of Public Health and Medical Information , CHRU de Tours, Team Emerging 'Education Ethics Health' , Tours , France.
Emmanuel
E
Rusch
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008880:Midwifery / Q000193:education*; D009042:Motivation; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
Self-determination; mental health; midwifery students; motivation; psychological needs satisfaction