Sutarno, Siswoyo Haryono, Wisnu Prajogo, Zainal Mustafa Elqadri
This study aims to find out the influence of Challenge stressors toward work engagement and to analyze the moderation role and boosting effect of hardness to the effect of Challenge stressors toward work engagement of newspaper journalist. The methodology used is quantitative using SEM calculation with AMOS 21.00 program. The sample of the study is consisted of 150 PWI newspaper journalist that spread in Central Java, Solo, and Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (DIY). The results showed that Challenge stressors had positive and significant influence toward work engagement of the newspaper journalist. The journalist became more engaged to their work because of the challenging working-atmosphere. Meanwhile, hardiness also showed positive and significant effect as moderation and boosting variable on Challenge stressors toward work engagement. Therefore, it can be concluded that the effect of Challenge stressors toward work engagement becomes stronger to journalist who has high hardiness.