Student work-study boundary flexibility and relationships with burnout and study engagement

IF 1.5 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2022-03-12 DOI:10.1080/13639080.2022.2048250

P. Creed, Michelle Hood, P. Brough, A. Bialocerkowski, M. Machin, Sonya Winterbotham, Lindsay Eastgate

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Relatively little is known about how working students manage their dual roles of work and study. To extend this research, we examined the direct and indirect relationships between boundary flexibility-ability (the appraised capacity to modify a boundary of one role to accommodate better the demands of another role) and boundary flexibility-willingness (the preparedness to do so) in both the work and study domains and outcomes of student burnout and study engagement in a sample of 851 working students (76% female; mean age 20.69 years). We tested the indirect paths via work-study conflict and facilitation. Both work and study flexibility-ability and flexibility-willingness, independently and in concert, were related to student burnout (46% variance explained) and study engagement (28% variance explained) as expected, and results supported work-study conflict and facilitation as underlying mechanisms in these relationships, with the indirect path via work-study conflict being more important than that via work-study facilitation. Thus, there are benefits for students when work and study boundaries are flexible and when students are willing to make use of this flexibility.

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学生勤工俭学边界灵活性与职业倦怠和学习投入的关系

摘要对于在职学生如何管理工作和学习的双重角色，我们知之甚少。为了扩展这一研究，在851名在职学生的样本中，我们研究了工作和学习领域的边界灵活性能力（评估修改一个角色的边界以更好地适应另一个角色需求的能力）和边界灵活性意愿（准备这样做）之间的直接和间接关系，以及学生倦怠和学习投入的结果（76%为女性；平均年龄20.69岁）。我们通过工作-学习冲突和便利化测试了间接路径。工作和学习的灵活性能力和灵活性意愿，无论是独立的还是一致的，都与预期的学生倦怠（解释了46%的方差）和学习投入（解释了28%的方差）有关，结果支持工作-学习冲突和便利化是这些关系的潜在机制，其中通过工作-学习冲突的间接路径比通过工作-学业便利的间接路径更重要。因此，当工作和学习的界限是灵活的，当学生愿意利用这种灵活性时，对学生来说是有好处的。

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Journal of Education and Work EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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2.70

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Education and Work is an international forum for academic research and policy analysis which focuses on the interplay of the education and economic systems. The journal examines how knowledge, skills, values and attitudes both about and for work and employment are developed within the education system. The journal also explores the various forms of industrial training and accreditation in the economic system, including changes in the economic and industrial infrastructure which influence the type of employees required. Work in the informal economy is also included.