Département de psychologie, Universite Paul-Valery Montpellier, Route de Mende, Montpellier, France.
Psychol Rep. 2020 Jun;123(3):872-884. doi: 10.1177/0033294119826891. Epub 2019 Feb 2.
Objectification at work reflects instrumentality and denial of humanness in work relationships. These relationships have deleterious consequences for workplace health. One of the consequences of this type of relationship is self-objectification in which the self is perceived as a non-person or as an object. This phenomenon leads to perceiving oneself without mental states (i.e., dementalization) or as an instrument (i.e., instrumentalization) and as a nonperson (i.e., loss of humanness). However, few studies have considered how to reduce these consequences. In this study, we examine the protective role of meaning at work against the consequences of objectification. A total of 153 employees answered an online questionnaire which measured objectification, meaning of work, mentalization, and instrumentality/humanness. The results highlight an impact of objectification on instrumentality and humanness but not on mentalization as in previous studies. There is also a moderation effect of the meaning of work on the relationship between objectification and humanness. These results lead us to consider instrumentality, humanness, and dementalization as separate constructs accounting for self-objectification.
工作中的物化反映了工作关系中的工具性和对人性的否认。这些关系对工作场所的健康有不良影响。这种关系的后果之一是自我物化，即自我被视为非个人或物。这种现象导致感知自己没有心理状态（即去人性化）或作为工具（即工具化）以及非人化（即丧失人性）。然而，很少有研究考虑如何减少这些后果。在这项研究中，我们研究了工作意义对物化后果的保护作用。共有 153 名员工在线回答了一份问卷，该问卷测量了物化、工作意义、心理化和工具化/人性化。结果突出了物化对工具化和人性化的影响，但与之前的研究不同，对心理化没有影响。工作意义对物化与人性化之间关系的调节作用也很明显。这些结果使我们认为工具化、人性化和去人性化是自我物化的独立结构。
