Work Engagement as a Mediator of the Influence of Coworker Support on Task Performance of Indonesian Army (TNI-AD) Soldiers Serving in Vulnerable Areas (Papua)

Tian Sakti Marantika, Endang Parahyanti

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Army is one of particular profession which has extremely high-risk job. Most of Indonesian Army member will be deployed to a danger area that has dynamics situation. Coworker support is needed for them to increase soldier work engagement and enabling them to show their best performance in a deployment. Data collection methods used in this research was survey method by using Coworker Support Scale Items (2002), Individual Work Performance Questionnaire (2012), and Utrecht Work Engagement Scale/ UWES (2002). The participants of the study were 541 Indonesian Army whom deployed in danger area. Data processing and analysis were using Hayes PROCESS Procedure model 4 program (Simple Mediation). The result shows that the presence of high Coworker’s support would increase for work engagement and eventually enabling soldiers to perform their best on the deployment.


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coworker support, work engagement, task performance, Indonesian army

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