Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Department of Developmental, Personality, and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
PLoS One. 2023 Feb 21;18(2):e0281556. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281556. eCollection 2023.
This study aimed to investigate the associations between day-to-day work-related stress exposures (i.e., job demands and lack of job control), job strain, and next-day work engagement among office workers in academic settings. Additionally, we assessed the influence of psychological detachment and relaxation on next-day work engagement and tested for interaction effects of these recovery variables on the relationship between work-related stressors and next-day work engagement.
Office workers from two academic settings in Belgium and Slovenia were recruited. This study is based on an Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) with a 15-working day data collection period using our self-developed STRAW smartphone application. Participants were asked repeatedly about their work-related stressors, work engagement, and recovery experiences. Fixed-effect model testing using random intercepts was applied to investigate within- and between-participant levels.
Our sample consisted of 55 participants and 2710 item measurements were analysed. A significant positive association was found between job control and next-day work engagement (β = 0.28, p < 0.001). Further, a significant negative association was found between job strain and next-day work engagement (β = -0.32, p = 0.05). Furthermore, relaxation was negatively associated with work engagement (β = -0.08, p = 0.03).
This study confirmed previous results, such as higher job control being associated with higher work engagement and higher job strain predicting lower work engagement. An interesting result was the association of higher relaxation after the working day with a lower next-day work engagement. Further research investigating fluctuations in work-related stressors, work engagement, and recovery experiences is required.
本研究旨在探讨学术环境中办公室工作人员日常工作相关压力源（即工作要求和缺乏工作控制）、工作压力和次日工作投入之间的关系。此外，我们评估了心理解脱和放松对次日工作投入的影响，并检验了这些恢复变量对工作相关压力源与次日工作投入关系的交互作用。
本研究从比利时和斯洛文尼亚的两个学术环境中招募了办公室工作人员。该研究基于生态瞬时评估（EMA），使用我们自行开发的 STRAW 智能手机应用程序进行了 15 个工作日的数据收集期。参与者被反复询问其工作相关压力源、工作投入和恢复体验。应用具有随机截距的固定效应模型测试来调查个体内和个体间的水平。
我们的样本由 55 名参与者和 2710 项指标组成。分析结果显示，工作控制与次日工作投入呈显著正相关（β=0.28，p<0.001）。此外，工作压力与次日工作投入呈显著负相关（β=-0.32，p=0.05）。进一步的，放松与工作投入呈负相关（β=-0.08，p=0.03）。
本研究证实了之前的研究结果，例如较高的工作控制与较高的工作投入相关，较高的工作压力与较低的工作投入相关。一个有趣的结果是，工作日后更高的放松与次日更低的工作投入相关。需要进一步研究工作相关压力源、工作投入和恢复体验的波动。
