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Associations among job demands and resources, work engagement, and psychological distress: fixed-effects model analysis in Japan

OBJECTIVES: We examined the associations among job demands and resources, work engagement, and psychological distress, adjusted for time-invariant individual attributes. METHODS: We used data from a Japanese occupational cohort survey, which included 18,702 observations of 7,843 individuals. We inve...

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Autores principales: Oshio, Takashi, Inoue, Akiomi, Tsutsumi, Akizumi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Japan Society for Occupational Health 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5985349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29563368
http://dx.doi.org/10.1539/joh.2017-0293-OA
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Inoue, Akiomi
Tsutsumi, Akizumi
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description OBJECTIVES: We examined the associations among job demands and resources, work engagement, and psychological distress, adjusted for time-invariant individual attributes. METHODS: We used data from a Japanese occupational cohort survey, which included 18,702 observations of 7,843 individuals. We investigated how work engagement, measured by the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, was associated with key aspects of job demands and resources, using fixed-effects regression models. We further estimated the fixed-effects models to assess how work engagement moderated the association between each job characteristic and psychological distress as measured by Kessler 6 scores. RESULTS: The fixed-effects models showed that work engagement was positively associated with job resources, as did pooled cross-sectional and prospective cohort models. Specifically, the standardized regression coefficients (β) were 0.148 and 0.120 for extrinsic reward and decision latitude, respectively, compared to -0.159 and 0.020 for role ambiguity and workload and time pressure, respectively (p < 0.001 for all associations). Work engagement modestly moderated the associations of psychological distress with workload and time pressure and extrinsic reward; a one-standard deviation increase in work engagement moderated their associations by 19.2% (p < 0.001) and 11.3% (p = 0.034), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Work engagement was associated with job demands and resources, which is in line with the theoretical prediction of the job demands-resources model, even after controlling for time-invariant individual attributes. Work engagement moderated the association between selected aspects of job demands and resources and psychological distress.
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spelling pubmed-59853492018-06-06 Associations among job demands and resources, work engagement, and psychological distress: fixed-effects model analysis in Japan Oshio, Takashi Inoue, Akiomi Tsutsumi, Akizumi J Occup Health Original OBJECTIVES: We examined the associations among job demands and resources, work engagement, and psychological distress, adjusted for time-invariant individual attributes. METHODS: We used data from a Japanese occupational cohort survey, which included 18,702 observations of 7,843 individuals. We investigated how work engagement, measured by the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, was associated with key aspects of job demands and resources, using fixed-effects regression models. We further estimated the fixed-effects models to assess how work engagement moderated the association between each job characteristic and psychological distress as measured by Kessler 6 scores. RESULTS: The fixed-effects models showed that work engagement was positively associated with job resources, as did pooled cross-sectional and prospective cohort models. Specifically, the standardized regression coefficients (β) were 0.148 and 0.120 for extrinsic reward and decision latitude, respectively, compared to -0.159 and 0.020 for role ambiguity and workload and time pressure, respectively (p < 0.001 for all associations). Work engagement modestly moderated the associations of psychological distress with workload and time pressure and extrinsic reward; a one-standard deviation increase in work engagement moderated their associations by 19.2% (p < 0.001) and 11.3% (p = 0.034), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Work engagement was associated with job demands and resources, which is in line with the theoretical prediction of the job demands-resources model, even after controlling for time-invariant individual attributes. Work engagement moderated the association between selected aspects of job demands and resources and psychological distress. Japan Society for Occupational Health 2018-03-20 2018-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5985349/ /pubmed/29563368 http://dx.doi.org/10.1539/joh.2017-0293-OA Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ ©Article author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view the details of this license, please visit (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
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Associations among job demands and resources, work engagement, and psychological distress: fixed-effects model analysis in Japan
title Associations among job demands and resources, work engagement, and psychological distress: fixed-effects model analysis in Japan
title_full Associations among job demands and resources, work engagement, and psychological distress: fixed-effects model analysis in Japan
title_fullStr Associations among job demands and resources, work engagement, and psychological distress: fixed-effects model analysis in Japan
title_full_unstemmed Associations among job demands and resources, work engagement, and psychological distress: fixed-effects model analysis in Japan
title_short Associations among job demands and resources, work engagement, and psychological distress: fixed-effects model analysis in Japan
title_sort associations among job demands and resources, work engagement, and psychological distress: fixed-effects model analysis in japan
topic Original
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5985349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29563368
http://dx.doi.org/10.1539/joh.2017-0293-OA
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