Ticket to Ride: A Longitudinal Journey to Health and Work-Attendance in the JD-R Model

Langseth-Eide, Benedicte; Vittersø, Joar

doi:10.3390/ijerph18084327

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“…Our results indicate that there is still a strong necessity for longitudinal studies on the association between work engagement on health to investigate reciprocal effects. In light of our results and the examination of past evidence, we feel that the statement “engaged workers experience good health” (Langseth‐Eide & Vittersø, 2021, p. 10) could also be rephrased to state that employees who are in good health also experience higher work engagement. Although we do not deny the potential health‐improving effects of work engagement, it is important to investigate the causal relationships further and carefully consider the causality directions when planning and evaluating interventions to increase work engagement.…”

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Individual health status as a resource: Analyzing associations between perceived illness symptom severity, burnout, and work engagement among employees with autoimmune diseases

Cook

Zill

2023

Applied Psychology

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Epidemiological data suggest that the prevalence of autoimmune diseases is increasing. Although evidence implies that people with chronic illnesses experience higher levels of burnout, there are few available insights for developing preventative interventions. This paper builds on the conservation of resources (COR) and the job demands–resources (JD‐R) framework to investigate the association between impaired health, burnout, and work engagement. In two studies, we research the role of health status as a resource, respectively, autoimmune illness symptom severity as a diminished resource, and investigate its variance explanation in burnout and work engagement above and beyond the effects of job demands and resources. Study 1 investigated the hypotheses among 87 employees with inflammatory bowel diseases. Controlling for job demands and resources, symptom severity was positively associated with (exhaustion) burnout and negatively associated with work engagement. In Study 2, we applied mixed model analyses using a sample of 129 employees with multiple sclerosis. We found significant associations of symptom severity on burnout and vigor work engagement above and beyond the effects of job demands and social support. Our studies provide important insights for employees with chronic illnesses and the organizations in which they work and give indications for theory development, future research, and the development of interventions.

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confidence: 63%

Individual health status as a resource: Analyzing associations between perceived illness symptom severity, burnout, and work engagement among employees with autoimmune diseases

Cook

Zill

2023

Applied Psychology

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“…Previous literature on work engagement suggests that engaged workers perform better because work engagement is associated with better health (Bakker & Demerouti, 2008;Langseth-Eide & Vittersø, 2021). Our results indicate that there is still a strong necessity for longitudinal studies on the association between work engagement on health to investigate reciprocal effects.…”

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Individual health status as a resource: Analyzing associations between perceived illness symptom severity, burnout, and work engagement amongst employees with autoimmune diseases

Cook¹,

Zill²

2021

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Epidemiological data suggest that the prevalence of autoimmune diseases is increasing. Although evidence implies that people with chronic illnesses experience higher levels of burnout, there are few available insights for developing preventative interventions. This paper builds on the job-demands resources model (JD-R) to investigate the association between impaired health, burnout, and work engagement. In two longitudinal studies, we test the effects of job demands and resources among employed people with autoimmune diseases and identify individual health status as a personal resource within the JD-R model to investigate the incremental effects of autoimmune illness severity on burnout. Study 1 investigated the effects of illness severity amongst 87 employees with inflammatory bowel diseases. Controlling for job characteristics, perceived illness severity was the strongest predictor of e burnout and predicted the vigor subdimension of work engagement. In study 2, we analyzed the effects of illness severity amongst 129 employees with multiple sclerosis and found similar effects of illness severity on both outcomes. Our studies provide important insights for employees with chronic illnesses and the organizations in which they work and give indications for theory development, future research, and the development of interventions.

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“…Support for this hypothesis offers overall support for the application of JD-R theory to the health domain-thus, confirming our proposed HD-R framework. Moreover, whereas health factors in previous research have been modelled as outcome measures (e.g., Brauchli et al, 2015;Langseth-Eide & Vittersø, 2021), our study proposed and found that health factors can function as demands and resources as well. Taken together, our investigation adds to prior work-related research by expanding key JD-R concepts and processes to domains outside of work (e.g., Lesener et al, 2020;Martin, Collie, & Malmberg, 2023;Martin et al, 2021;Martin, Ginns, & Collie, 2023;Salmela-Aro et al, 2022).…”

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confidence: 78%

“…Although they found support for this expansion, their study was still focused on job demands and resources (not health demands and resources) and how these affected employees' health. Likewise, Langseth‐Eide and Vittersø (2021) investigated health (general health and sick leave) among employees and confirmed the JD‐R process, but once more, the demands and resources were work‐related, not health‐related. There are also applications of JD‐R theory to health settings (e.g., Kaiser et al., 2020; Meirun et al., 2020; Udushirinwa et al., 2023; Viotti et al., 2015), but these are focused on health care workers and how job (not health) demands and resources affect their workplace functioning.…”

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confidence: 92%

The role of health demands, health resources, and adaptability in psychological strain and life satisfaction

Martin,

Collie,

Holliman

2023

Stress and Health

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The present study harnessed job demands‐resources theory to identify key predictors of psychological strain (feeling overwhelmed by one's problems) and life satisfaction among a sample of 1060 adults randomly selected from the Australian electoral roll. The investigation sought to ascertain: (a) the relative contribution of health demands (e.g., inadequate health treatment) and health resources (e.g., access to helpful health‐related information) in predicting psychological strain and life satisfaction, (b) the extent to which a recently proposed personal resource—adaptability—explained variance in wellbeing beyond individuals' health demands and resources, and (c) the role of psychological strain in predicting life satisfaction in the context of these demands and resources. Applying structural equation modelling we found that contextual health demands predicted greater psychological strain, individual health resources and adaptability both predicted lower psychological strain and greater life satisfaction, and psychological strain predicted lower life satisfaction. Notably, the adverse effects of health demands reduced significantly when health resources and adaptability were entered into the modelling. Taken together, the findings offer support for a health demands‐resources framework that may be applied to better support individuals to respond to the stressors in their lives and in turn boost their sense of subjective wellbeing.

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Ticket to Ride: A Longitudinal Journey to Health and Work-Attendance in the JD-R Model

Cited by 8 publications

References 52 publications

Individual health status as a resource: Analyzing associations between perceived illness symptom severity, burnout, and work engagement among employees with autoimmune diseases

Individual health status as a resource: Analyzing associations between perceived illness symptom severity, burnout, and work engagement among employees with autoimmune diseases

Individual health status as a resource: Analyzing associations between perceived illness symptom severity, burnout, and work engagement amongst employees with autoimmune diseases

The role of health demands, health resources, and adaptability in psychological strain and life satisfaction

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