Working conditions, commitment to work, and health: a mediation analysis
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https://doi.org/10.24054/face.v22i3.1442Keywords:
work engagement, work demands, decision latitude, job strain, well-beingAbstract
This study investigates whether work engagement mediates the association between the Demand-Control stress model and worker well-being. In this cross-sectional research, 463 workers completed the Job Content Questionnaire, the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES), and the vitality, pain, and mental health subscales of the short version of the Health Survey Questionnaire (SF-36). The study hypotheses were tested using mediated path analyses based on structural equation models (SEM). It was found that work engagement partially mediates the associations between decision latitude and well-being, and between job strain and well-being. Additionally, job strain was negatively associated with both work engagement and well-being. Job demands were negatively associated with well-being, but contrary to expectations, they were not significantly associated with work engagement. In theory, the findings of this study suggest that adverse working conditions can deteriorate well-being both through the direct pathway of stress reactions and through the indirect pathway of low work motivation (i.e., low work engagement).
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