A longitudinal perspective on the associations between work engagement and workaholism

IF 5.6 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Work and Stress Pub Date : 2020-08-04 DOI:10.1080/02678373.2020.1801888

István Tóth‐Király, A. Morin, K. Salmela‐Aro

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The purpose of this two-wave longitudinal study was to examine the associations between work engagement and workaholism to better understand the psychological mechanisms underpinning high levels of work investment. These associations were examined in a sample of 514 employees using latent change models, allowing us to obtain a direct and explicit estimate of change occurring in both constructs over a 3-year period. These analyses relied on a bifactor representation of work engagement and workaholism, allowing us to properly disaggregate the global and specific levels of both constructs in the estimation of these longitudinal associations. To further enrich our theoretical understanding of the mechanisms at play in these relations, we also considered associations between these two constructs and employees’ levels of harmonious and obsessive work passion, two other facets of heavy work investment. Our results revealed the longitudinal independence of employees’ global levels work engagement and workaholism, showing that longitudinal associations between these two constructs occurred at the specific, rather than global, level. Harmonious work passion was only found to be associated to global and specific components of work engagement, whereas obsessive work passion was found to be associated with global and specific components of both work engagement and workaholism.

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工作投入与工作狂关系的纵向研究

摘要这项两波纵向研究的目的是检验工作投入和工作狂之间的联系，以更好地理解支撑高水平工作投资的心理机制。这些关联在514名员工的样本中使用潜在变化模型进行了检查，使我们能够获得对三年内两种结构中发生的变化的直接和明确的估计。这些分析依赖于对工作投入和工作狂的双重表征，使我们能够在估计这些纵向关联时正确地分解这两种结构的全局和具体水平。为了进一步丰富我们对这些关系中的机制的理论理解，我们还考虑了这两种结构与员工和谐和痴迷的工作热情水平之间的联系，这是繁重工作投资的另外两个方面。我们的研究结果揭示了员工全球层面的工作投入和工作狂的纵向独立性，表明这两种结构之间的纵向关联发生在特定层面，而不是全球层面。和谐的工作激情只与工作投入的全局和特定组成部分有关，而强迫性工作激情则与工作投入和工作狂的全局和具体组成部分有关。

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Work and Stress PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED-

CiteScore

11.70

自引率

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.