Two sides of the same coin: motivating and demotivating mediation paths of time pressure and their relationship with strain.

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-03-30 DOI:10.1080/10615806.2023.2183389

Anja Baethge, Ann-Kristin Menhardt, Yannick Frontzkowski, Miriam Schilbach

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Abstract

Background: Time pressure, commonly categorized a challenge stressor, consistently and positively relates to employees' experience of strain. However, regarding its relationship with motivational outcomes such as work engagement researchers have reported positive as well as negative effects.

Objectives: Drawing on the challenge-hindrance framework, we introduce two explanatory mechanisms (i.e., a loss of time control and an increase of meaning in work) which may explain both, the consistent findings related to strain (here operationalized as irritation) as well as the diverse findings related to work engagement.

Methods: We conducted a two-wave survey with a two-week time-lag. The final sample consisted of 232 participants. To test our hypotheses, we used structural equation modeling.

Results: Time pressure negatively and positively related to work engagement through loss of time control and meaning in work. Further, only loss of time control mediated the time pressure-irritation relationship.

Conclusion: Results demonstrate that time pressure likely acts motivating and demotivating at the same time, only through different paths. Hence, our study provides an explanation for the heterogeneous findings regarding the relationship between time pressure and work engagement.

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同一枚硬币的两面：时间压力的激励和抑制中介路径及其与压力的关系。

背景：时间压力通常被归类为一种挑战性压力源，它与员工的压力体验始终保持正相关。然而，关于时间压力与工作投入等激励结果之间的关系，研究人员报告了正面和负面的影响：借鉴挑战-阻碍框架，我们引入了两个解释机制（即时间控制的丧失和工作意义的增加），这两个机制可以解释与压力（此处操作为刺激）相关的一致研究结果，以及与工作投入相关的不同研究结果：我们进行了为期两周的两波调查。最终样本由 232 名参与者组成。为了验证我们的假设，我们使用了结构方程模型：结果：时间压力通过时间失控和工作意义与工作投入度呈负相关和正相关。此外，只有时间控制权的丧失在时间压力与恼怒的关系中起到了中介作用：研究结果表明，时间压力很可能同时起到激励和打击积极性的作用，只是通过不同的途径。因此，我们的研究为有关时间压力与工作投入之间关系的不同发现提供了解释。

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期刊介绍： This journal provides a forum for scientific, theoretically important, and clinically significant research reports and conceptual contributions. It deals with experimental and field studies on anxiety dimensions and stress and coping processes, but also with related topics such as the antecedents and consequences of stress and emotion. We also encourage submissions contributing to the understanding of the relationship between psychological and physiological processes, specific for stress and anxiety. Manuscripts should report novel findings that are of interest to an international readership. While the journal is open to a diversity of articles.