Anja Isabel Morstatt, Georg F Bauer, Jessica de Bloom, Zachary J Roman, Martin Tušl, Philipp Kerksieck
{"title":"Crafting for Health: A Longitudinal Study of Job and Off-Job Crafting Changes during the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Anja Isabel Morstatt, Georg F Bauer, Jessica de Bloom, Zachary J Roman, Martin Tušl, Philipp Kerksieck","doi":"10.1007/s41542-025-00222-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41542-025-00222-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We examined the association between changes in employee job and off-job crafting and their self-rated health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, we investigated how these associations differed across sample subgroups, contrasting differences in work location, living situation, and contractual changes (short-time work). We used four waves of a longitudinal dataset surveying N<sub>Total</sub> = 783 German-speaking employees from Germany, Switzerland, and Austria from 2019 to 2021. We applied latent change score modeling and multigroup analyses to investigate our research questions. Results indicated that the mean job and off-job crafting and self-rated health trajectories remained relatively stable. However, we observed significant interindividual variance in job and off-job crafting changes. We found a consistent small positive relationship between crafting changes in both life domains over time, indicating that employees tended to change their crafting efforts similarly across domains. Additionally, job crafting increases between Waves 1 and 2 were linked to higher subsequent self-rated health at Wave 2, and similarly, off-job crafting increases between Waves 3 and 4 were linked to higher self-rated health at Wave 4. We observed only minor differences in this pattern across subgroups. Our results show how adaptive changes in crafting are linked to broader interindividual health differences and help identify groups who are not able to increase crafting during crises and thus could benefit from targeted support. Crafting can be an effective individual strategy for maintaining health, complementing organizational and public health measures. We encourage future research to incorporate temporal and contextual phenomena into crafting research.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s41542-025-00222-5.</p>","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"9 3","pages":"675-710"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12484252/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145213899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Norbert K Semmer, Wolfgang Kälin, Fabienne T Amstad, Franziska Tschan, Nicola Jacobshagen, Terry A Beehr, Mara Lehmann, Achim Elfering
{"title":"Dysfunctional Social Support: Delivering Social Support at Work in an Unappreciative Way.","authors":"Norbert K Semmer, Wolfgang Kälin, Fabienne T Amstad, Franziska Tschan, Nicola Jacobshagen, Terry A Beehr, Mara Lehmann, Achim Elfering","doi":"10.1007/s41542-024-00215-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41542-024-00215-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Self-esteem, both personal and social, constitutes a core concern for many people. Accordingly, Stress-as-Offense-to-Self theory focuses on threats, as well as boosts, to the self as important topics in occupational health science. Workplace social support is well established as a resource that signals acceptance and appreciation. At the same time, however, social support, notably support actually received, as opposed to perceived support availability, has been shown to have the potential to \"backfire\" and act as a stressor rather than a resource. The current study emphasizes the potential of social support to constitute a threat to the self if not delivered appropriately, that is, if it contains derogatory messages, even minor ones. The \"<i>Bern</i> <i>Dysfunctional Social Support Scale</i>\" (<i>BDSSS</i>) focuses on such threats entailed in supportive attempts, focusing on provider behavior rather than recipient reactions and covering a broader range of (mostly subtle) derogatory behaviors than previously existing measures. In a cross-sectional study of 468 Swiss employees, it was associated with strain and attitudes in a way that characterizes it as a stressor. Effects were not strong, but dysfunctional support explained variance over and above demographic characteristics, neuroticism, classical social stressors, task stressors, and functional social support, as well as the outcome variables from a previous wave of measurement. The <i>BDSSS</i> therefore constitutes a valuable complement to existing measures. Although further research on this issue is needed, results underscore the need to sensitize employees and supervisors about pitfalls of support that is well intended but delivered in a potentially offending way.</p>","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"9 2","pages":"583-608"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12213926/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144561335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kristen Jennings Black, Olivia C DePhillips, Thomas W Britt
{"title":"I Can Afford to Relax: Relating Perceived Income Adequacy to Recovery and Health.","authors":"Kristen Jennings Black, Olivia C DePhillips, Thomas W Britt","doi":"10.1007/s41542-024-00200-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41542-024-00200-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Employee recovery during non-work hours benefits health in a variety of areas. However, little research has evaluated how recovery may be affected by perceptions of income (in)adequacy. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationships among workers' perceived income adequacy (PIA), relaxation remorse, recovery experiences outside of work, and health outcomes. Hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling with data obtained from a two-wave, time-lagged survey of Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) workers (<i>N</i> = 683). We found a positive relationship between PIA and recovery, which were both related to better health. PIA was negatively related to relaxation remorse, with relaxation remorse being associated with poor health. There was evidence of indirect relationships via relaxation remorse, where relaxation remorse explained portions of the relationships between PIA and health symptoms. Indirect relationships via recovery experiences were largely unsupported. Our findings expand our understanding of employee recovery as it relates to perceptions of income. Specifically, our studies highlight that one's perceived income adequacy may be an important contributor to comfort with and/or actual experienced recovery, which can have further health effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"9 1","pages":"131-153"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11923011/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143693689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effects of Workplace Substance Use Programs, Policies, and Practices on Current Substance Use Among A National Sample of Low-Income Workers: Differences by Race/Ethnicity and Education Level","authors":"R. A. Hoopsick, Ameera Samad","doi":"10.1007/s41542-023-00170-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-023-00170-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"56 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139155749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sylvia Machat, Bronwyn McBride, Alka Murphy, Minshu Mo, S. Goldenberg, Andrea Krüsi
{"title":"An Evaluation of Indoor Sex Workers’ Psychosocial Occupational Health and Safety in Metro Vancouver, Canada","authors":"Sylvia Machat, Bronwyn McBride, Alka Murphy, Minshu Mo, S. Goldenberg, Andrea Krüsi","doi":"10.1007/s41542-023-00169-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-023-00169-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"48 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138588398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Office Openess Affects Stress Regulation and Teamwork: A Neurophysiological Field Study","authors":"Veronika Alexander, Laura Dannhäuser, Paul J. Zak","doi":"10.1007/s41542-023-00167-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-023-00167-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"72 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138604616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Methodological and Demographic Variation in Estimates of Economic Dependence Across Two Types of Gig Work","authors":"Alice Brawley Newlin","doi":"10.1007/s41542-023-00168-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-023-00168-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"12 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135934181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the Dynamic Relationship of Transformational Leadership Behavior and Leader Well-Being: A Three-Wave Cross-Lagged Panel Study","authors":"Lennart Poetz, Judith Volmer","doi":"10.1007/s41542-023-00165-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-023-00165-9","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Leadership behavior is associated with leader well-being. Yet, existing research, with the majority representing cross-sectional studies, limits our understanding of the association over time, potential mediating mechanisms, and potential reciprocal relations. Based on Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, we test between- and within-person relationships between transformational leadership and leader vigor as well as emotional exhaustion over time. In addition, we include leaders’ occupational self-efficacy, information exchange with followers, and meaning of work as mediators. 132 leaders participated in a fully cross-lagged study across three consecutive weeks. We analyzed the data with a random intercept cross-lagged panel model (RI-CLPM) that allows separating the within- and between-person variance in our variables. At the between-person level, transformational leadership was positively related to vigor, occupational self-efficacy, information exchange, and meaning of work. At the within-person level, there were no lagged associations of transformational leadership and well-being, but a positive lagged effect of vigor in one week on information exchange and meaning of work in the next week. Within one week, transformational leadership was related to occupational self-efficacy, meaning of work, and vigor (positive, respectively) and to emotional exhaustion (negative) within persons. In line with COR theory, we discuss transformational leadership as a resource for leaders associated with greater well-being for leaders. Our study contributes to the literature on dynamic leadership behavior and the mechanisms between leadership and leader well-being","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"2018 33","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135813689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah Elena Althammer, Anne Marit Wöhrmann, Alexandra Michel
{"title":"How Positive Activities Shape Emotional Exhaustion and Work-Life Balance: Effects of an Intervention via Positive Emotions and Boundary Management Strategies","authors":"Sarah Elena Althammer, Anne Marit Wöhrmann, Alexandra Michel","doi":"10.1007/s41542-023-00163-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-023-00163-x","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The positive-activity model (PAM) proposes how and for whom positive activity interventions work best. This article evaluates the effectiveness of a web-based self-regulation intervention that teaches participants positive activities. Over six weeks, participants engage in different positive activities to meet the particular challenges in flexible work designs (FWD) such as remote work or mobile work. In line with the PAM, we expected the intervention to decrease emotional exhaustion and increase satisfaction with work-life balance via increases in both positive emotions and boundary management. Moreover, individuals’ depressive symptoms were expected to moderate this relationship. In a randomized controlled trial, participants were assigned to a waitlist control group or an intervention group. Study participants received questionnaires before and after the intervention and at a four-week follow-up. The final sample included 288 participants (intervention group: n = 105; control group: n = 183). Results of mixed variance analyses were in line with our predictions. Findings indicate that the intervention is an effective tool for improving well-being and work-life balance for workers with FWD. Changes in positive emotions and boundary management explained intervention effects. The intervention was effective regardless of participants’ baseline level of depressive symptoms.","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135386065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}