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20 February 2025
Vol. 40 No. 2 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.4081/gimle.537

[Psychosocial well-being in school contexts: a case study analysis using the Va.RP tool]

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Antonio Aiello
antonio.aiello@sp.unipi.it
Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Christian Nardella
Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche ed Economiche, Unitelma Sapienza, Roma, Italy.

Introduction. The organizational well-being construct has become a theme with broad scientific and law debate, pertaining prevention and protection measures concerning work-related stress, both for assessment and intervention on psychosocial risks. This paper focuses on a case study identified in a specific organizational context of a upper middle school.
Method. Starting from a research-intervention perspective, this paper was primarily based on the use of the "Psychosocial Risk Assessment" (Va.RP) Italian tool, in shape for medium organizations, Va.RP-M, in a further form specially remodeled for organizational school contexts. Some of the dimensions
4 measured by the instrument are: the role, transparency of information, support, the relationship between work vs. private life, the perception of organizational and managerial aspects. In addition to this instrument, it was made a board regarding the "practical solutions" deemed most relevant according to the critical organizational received by workers, closing with a request for comments and suggestions on initiatives in order to prevent work-related stress.
Results. The results show an emerging dissatisfaction primarily related to the dimensions of perceived lack of organizational justice, role, career advancement, leadership and work flexibility. As for "practical solutions" suggested, respondents identify priorities for high salient specific actions.
Conclusions. Overall, it is confirmed as the face and prevent work-related stress is a process that must involve all stakeholders comprised into the organization, with a particular concern in promoting a strength of organizational management, to improve the well-being in partcular in classroom settings. Teachers emerge as a figure of multiparty function experienced in the psychosocial dynamics considered.

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[Psychosocial well-being in school contexts: a case study analysis using the Va.RP tool]. (2025). Giornale Italiano Di Medicina Del Lavoro Ed Ergonomia, 40(2), 83-89. https://doi.org/10.4081/gimle.537
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