College of Global Business, Korea University, 2511 Sejong-ro, Sejong City 30019, Korea.
College of Business, Gachon University, Seongnam 13120, Korea.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Mar 3;17(5):1642. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17051642.
An employee's off-work activities are known to contribute positively to recovering their energy levels depleted by daily work. Despite this view and understanding, the effect of employees' weekend activities on their psychological well-being has not attracted sufficient research interest. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between employees' weekend activities and their psychological well-being, and the mediating role of job stress in the above relationship. We also investigated the moderating role of the recovery experiences in the relationship between employees' weekend activities and job stress. Furthermore, we examined the moderated mediating effect of recovery experiences on the relationship among employees' weekend activity, job stress, and psychological well-being. The survey data was obtained from 294 employees working in 15 manufacturing companies in South Korea. The participants were 71.1% men and 28.9% women, 49.7% were university graduates, followed by 26.2% college graduates, 12.6% high school graduates, 10.2% post-graduates, and 1.4% Ph.D. holders. In terms of age composition, 50% participants were in their thirties, followed by 19.7% in their forties. The empirical analysis revealed that weekend activities are positively associated with employees' psychological well-being. Moreover, job stress was found to mediate the relationship between weekend activities and psychological well-being. We also found that the recovery experiences positively moderated the relationship between weekend activities and job stress. Further, the study revealed that the higher the level of recovery experience, the greater the effect of weekend activities on psychological well-being affected by job stress. The paper also discusses the theoretical and practical implications of the study.
员工的非工作活动被认为有助于恢复他们因日常工作而耗尽的能量水平。尽管有这种观点和理解，但员工周末活动对其心理健康的影响并没有引起足够的研究兴趣。因此，本文旨在分析员工周末活动与心理健康之间的关系，以及工作压力在上述关系中的中介作用。我们还调查了恢复体验在员工周末活动与工作压力之间关系中的调节作用。此外，我们检验了恢复体验对员工周末活动、工作压力和心理健康之间关系的调节中介效应。调查数据来自韩国 15 家制造公司的 294 名员工。参与者中 71.1%为男性，28.9%为女性，49.7%为大学毕业生，其次是 26.2%的大学毕业生、12.6%的高中毕业生、10.2%的专科生和 1.4%的博士生。在年龄构成方面，50%的参与者年龄在三十多岁，其次是 19.7%的参与者年龄在四十多岁。实证分析表明，周末活动与员工的心理健康呈正相关。此外，工作压力在周末活动与心理健康之间的关系中起中介作用。我们还发现，恢复体验对周末活动与工作压力之间的关系有积极的调节作用。此外，研究表明，恢复体验水平越高，周末活动对受工作压力影响的心理健康的影响就越大。本文还讨论了研究的理论和实践意义。
