Associations between work characteristics, engaged well-being at work, and job attitudes: findings from a longitudinal German study
Objective - The Job Demand & Resources model suggests work characteristics are related to mental well-being and work engagement. Previous work describes the development of a combined construct ‘engaged well-being at work’ (EWB). To what extent changes in measures of this construct are responsive...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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June 2022
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Safety and health at work
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 213-219 |
| ISSN: | 2093-7997 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.shaw.2022.03.003 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2022.03.003 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2093791122000440 
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| Author Notes: | Luisa L. Brokmeier, Catherin Bosle, Joachim E. Fischer, Raphael M. Herr |
| Summary: | Objective - The Job Demand & Resources model suggests work characteristics are related to mental well-being and work engagement. Previous work describes the development of a combined construct ‘engaged well-being at work’ (EWB). To what extent changes in measures of this construct are responsive to changes in job demands and resources or associated with changes in job-related attitudes has not been established. - Methods - Longitudinal employee-level data from three waves (German Linked Personnel Panel) were used. Logistic and linear fixed effects regression analyses explored longitudinal associations between changes in EWB for participants over a three-year period with changes in job demands and resources and job-related attitudes (job commitment, satisfaction, and turnover intentions). - Results - While job resources were associated with increased odds for a change into a healthier and/or more engaged category of EWB, job demands reduced them. Job resources were more strongly related to higher EWB (ORrange = 1.22 - 1.61) than job demands (ORrange = 0.79 - 0.96). Especially psychological job demands showed negative associations with improved EWB (OR = 0.79). A change from the least desirable category ‘disengaged strain’ to any other category of EWB was associated with greater odds by up to 20.6 % for increased commitment and job satisfaction and lower odds for turnover intentions. - Discussion - Improving work characteristics, especially job resources, could increase employees' EWB, emphasizing the importance of job characteristics for a healthy workplace. Because EWB seems to be associated with job attitudes, an improvement of this indicator would be relevant for employees and employers. |
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| Item Description: | Online veröffentlicht: 15 March 2022, Artikelversion: 20 May 2022 Gesehen am 09.01.2024 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 2093-7997 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.shaw.2022.03.003 |