The Effect of Psychosocial Safety Climate on Engagement and Psychological Distress: A Multilevel Study on the Healthcare Sector

All work sectors have been affected by the impact of COVID-19 pandemic. The perception risk combined with lack safety and fear for their own caused severe psychological discomfort in workers. Of all sectors, most was certainly healthcare sector. In hospitals, medical staff were at forefront battle against COVID-19, providing care close physical proximity to patients had a direct being exposed virus. main objective study investigate psychosocial climate effect on engagement stress sample 606 workers (physicians 39.6%, nurses 41.3%, assistant 19.1%), belonging six organisations organised into 11 working groups. Furthermore, we wanted mediating workaholism both individual group level. results partially confirmed our hypotheses level compulsively. A led decrease through mediation compulsively might be due that did not guarantee or preserve health this research, important limit concerns number