Does work engagement physiologically deplete? Results from a daily diary study

IF 5.6 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Work and Stress Pub Date : 2020-12-10 DOI:10.1080/02678373.2020.1857466

Anja Baethge, N. Junker, T. Rigotti

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Based on the conservation of resources theory, we argue that work engagement involves resource investment, and therefore physiologically depletes resources. On this basis, we propose that work engagement accompanies high sympathetic arousal at the within- and the between-person levels, i.e. a negative objective health effect contrary to previous findings of beneficial effects on subjective psychological outcomes. To test our hypotheses, we examined heart rate variability via ambulatory assessment of 118 public office employees across five workdays. We measured daily work engagement at the end of each workday and calculated low frequency normalised and low to high frequency ratio (indicators of sympathetic activation) for work, leisure, and sleeping times of each day. As assumed, multilevel analyses showed a positive relationship between work engagement and sympathetic activation at work, during leisure, and sleeping time at the between-person level. Our hypotheses concerning the within-person associations were not supported. Thus, elevated work engagement over one workweek is associated with higher sympathetic activation, which is discussed to be a health risk.

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工作投入会在生理上耗尽吗？每日日记研究结果

摘要基于资源守恒理论，我们认为工作投入涉及资源投资，因此在生理上消耗资源。在此基础上，我们提出，工作投入在人内部和人与人之间的水平上伴随着高度的交感神经兴奋，即一种消极的客观健康效应，与之前对主观心理结果的有益影响相反。为了验证我们的假设，我们通过对118名公职人员在五个工作日内的动态评估来检查心率变异性。我们在每个工作日结束时测量了每天的工作投入，并计算了每天工作、休闲和睡眠时间的低频标准化和低高频比(交感神经激活指标)。正如假设的那样，多层次分析显示，工作投入与工作、休闲和睡眠时间的交感神经激活之间存在正相关关系。我们关于人际关系的假设没有得到支持。因此，一个工作周的高工作投入与更高的交感神经激活有关，这被认为是一种健康风险。

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Work and Stress PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED-

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11.70

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3.30%

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期刊介绍： Work & Stress is an international, multidisciplinary quarterly presenting high-quality papers concerned with the psychological, social and organizational aspects of occupational health and well-being, and stress and safety management. It is published in association with the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology. The journal publishes empirical reports, scholarly reviews and theoretical papers. It is directed at occupational health psychologists, work and organizational psychologists, those involved with organizational development, and all concerned with the interplay of work, health and organisations. Research published in Work & Stress relates psychologically salient features of the work environment to their psychological, behavioural and health consequences, focusing on the underlying psychological processes. The journal has become a natural home for research on the work-family interface, social relations at work (including topics such as bullying and conflict at work, leadership and organizational support), workplace interventions and reorganizations, and dimensions and outcomes of worker stress and well-being. Such dimensions and outcomes, both positive and negative, include stress, burnout, sickness absence, work motivation, work engagement and work performance. Of course, submissions addressing other topics in occupational health psychology are also welcomed.