Meaningful work and mental health: job satisfaction as a moderator
Meaningful work and mental health: job satisfaction as a moderator
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DOI：
10.1080/09638237.2016.1244718
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Parker, Shelby
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作者：
Allan, Blake A.;Dexter, Chelsea;Parker, Shelby
背景：抑郁、焦虑和压力是现代工作者普遍存在的问题。虽然拥有有意义的工作，或有意义的工作，促进个人成长，并有助于更大的利益，已被链接到更好的心理健康，人们的工作也可能需要令人满意或愉快，以改善成果。本研究旨在探讨有意义的工作与心理健康的关系（即抑郁，焦虑和压力），并调查工作满意度作为这种关系的调节剂。方法：研究假设进行了测试与一个大的，不同的样本招募从网上来源。结果：部分支持假设，当控制工作满意度时，有意义的工作与抑郁呈负相关，但与焦虑和压力没有显着关系。同样，工作满意度对抑郁和压力有负向预测作用。此外，有意义的工作与焦虑和压力之间的关系受到工作满意度的调节。具体而言，只有人们认为他们的工作是有意义的和满意的报告较少的焦虑和stress.Conclusions：虽然需要继续研究，雇主和雇员可能要针对的意义和工作满意度，以解决工作的成年人之间的压力和焦虑的问题。
Background: Depression, anxiety and stress are common problems for modern workers. Although having meaningful work, or work that is significant, facilitates personal growth, and contributes to the greater good, has been linked to better mental health, people's work might also need to be satisfying or enjoyable to improve outcomes.Aims: The purpose of the present study was to examine meaningful work's relation to mental health (i.e. depression, anxiety and stress) and investigate job satisfaction as a moderator of this relation.Methods: The study hypotheses were tested with a large, diverse sample recruited from an online source.Results: Partially supporting hypotheses, when controlling for job satisfaction, meaningful work negatively correlated with depression but did not have a significant relation with anxiety and stress. Similarly, job satisfaction negatively predicted depression and stress. Furthermore, the relations between meaningful work and both anxiety and stress were moderated by job satisfaction. Specifically, only people perceiving their work as meaningful and satisfying reported less anxiety and stress.Conclusions: Although continued research is needed, employers and employees may have to target both the meaningfulness and job satisfaction to address the issues of stress and anxiety among working adults.