The current study investigates how supervisors’ engaging leadership, as perceived by their employees, increases employees’ job outcomes at the individual and team level, as mediated by (team) work engagement. Job outcome indicators at the team level are team performance, team learning, and team innovation; and at the individual level, job performance, employee learning, and innovative work behavior. The novel concept of engaging leadership is presented as the specific type of leadership to foster (team) work engagement. A multi-level longitudinal study is conducted among 224 blue collar employees nested in 54 teams in an Indonesian state-owned holding company in the agricultural industry using a one-year time lag. The findings show, as expected, that at the team level, engaging leadership at time 1 predicted team learning and team innovation (but not team performance) at time 2, via team work engagement at time 2. Additionally, an expected cross-level effect was observed from engaging leadership at the team level at time 1 predicting individual job performance (but not employee learning and innovative work behavior) at time 2, via team work engagement at time 2. Finally, an expected second cross-level effect was observed for engaging leadership at the team level at time 1, which predicted individual job performance, employee learning, and innovative work behavior at time 2, via work engagement at time 2.

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Introduction: Housewives living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) encounter both social and psychological issues that are mainly associated with stigmatization as a result of their medical condition. Stigmatization is even stronger among housewives living with HIV as compared with husbands living with the same virus. The reason of this unequal stigmatization can originate from social expectations of feminine behavior as well as the common association between sexually transmitted infections and extramarital sex or drug abuse. This study aimed to investigate the influence of stigma and forgiveness toward psychological well-being among housewives living with HIV/AIDS. Material and methods: This was a cross-sectional study, with purposive sampling used to select participants based on characteristics and the objective of the study. The study was community-based and involved one hundred and twelve housewives living with HIV/AIDS. Information about HIV infection by a husband were obtained from self-reports. All participants signed an informed consent. Data collection was carried out for two months and information were collected with the use of questionnaires. The derived data were analyzed using stepwise regression. Results: Stigma and forgiveness influenced psychological well-being of housewives living with HIV/ AIDS. Instrumental stigma and symbolic stigma were both negatively correlated with psychological well-being, respectively (β =-0.705, β =-0.769; p < 0.01). Moreover, interpersonal forgiveness positively related to psychological well-being (β = 0.356, p < 0.01). Conclusions: Forgiveness helped housewives to live more in the present moment and to reconcile with the past. Forgiveness could influence personal outcome and have a positive impact on a relationship. The act of forgiveness was significantly influential on the standard of health and well-being. Limitation of the study was that all variables were measured by self-report, which may have some bias. Hence, further research is required to measure all variables by an in-depth interview, exploring attitudes toward stigma and forgiveness.

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Periodontal disease is an inflammatory disease of the tissues surrounding the teeth. Periodontal disease during pregnancy is cor-related with adverse pregnancyoutcomes such as prematurity, low birth weight, preeclampsia, and miscarriage. Midwifery stu-dents who will practice need to know about periodontal health inpregnant women. This descriptive study is aimed to determine the knowledge, attitudes and behavior of midwifery students at STIKes Senior Medan about periodontal health for pregnant women, with the number of research samples was 102 female students. The tests used are validity tests, reliability tests and des-criptive statistical analysis. The questionnaire is valid and reliable except for items number 3 for knowledge and 5 for attitude so it is deleted. The resultsshowed that the level of knowledge and attitudes and behaviour of STIKes senior midwifery students about the periodontal health of pregnant women is in the good category.