Grossi Nina Raffaela, Gattringer Fabiola, Batinic Bernad
Department of Work, Organizational and Media Psychology, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria.
Eur J Psychol. 2021 Nov 30;17(4):264-275. doi: 10.5964/ejop.2447. eCollection 2021 Nov.
The relation between job characteristics and health is one of the most important fields of research within work and organizational psychology. Another prominent variable influencing health is physical activity. The physical activity mediated Demand-Control (pamDC) model (Häusser & Mojzisch, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1080/02678373.2017.1303759) combines these health indicators in a new theoretical framework. Based on the pamDC model the current study aims to clarify the role of leisure time physical activity (LTPA) in the interplay of job demands, job control and well-being. We expect physical activity to partially mediate the impact of job characteristics on health. To avoid self-report bias considering physical activity we used a consumer fitness tracker to collect additional data. In total, 104 white-collar workers participated in the study. The results show that job control and job demands could predict well-being in cross-sectional analyses. In longitudinal analyses, this was only the case for job demands. Regarding the proposed mediating effect of LTPA between job characteristics and health, we could not detect a significant mediation in our sample. This was true for both self-reported and objective data on physical activity. This study provides a first step in validating the pamDC model and has implications for future research.
工作特征与健康之间的关系是工作与组织心理学中最重要的研究领域之一。另一个影响健康的显著变量是体育活动。体育活动介导的需求-控制（pamDC）模型（豪泽尔和莫伊齐施，2017年，https://doi.org/10.1080/02678373.2017.1303759）在一个新的理论框架中整合了这些健康指标。基于pamDC模型，本研究旨在阐明休闲体育活动（LTPA）在工作需求、工作控制与幸福感相互作用中的作用。我们预期体育活动会部分介导工作特征对健康的影响。为避免考虑体育活动时出现自我报告偏差，我们使用了一款消费者健身追踪器来收集额外数据。共有104名白领参与了这项研究。结果表明，在横断面分析中，工作控制和工作需求能够预测幸福感。在纵向分析中，只有工作需求能做到这一点。关于所提出的LTPA在工作特征与健康之间的中介作用，我们在样本中未检测到显著的中介效应。这对于体育活动的自我报告数据和客观数据均成立。本研究为验证pamDC模型迈出了第一步，并对未来研究具有启示意义。
