Loving thy work: developing a measure of work passion
Loving thy work: developing a measure of work passion
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DOI：
10.1080/1359432x.2019.1703680
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发表时间：
2019-12-17
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Lim, Sandy
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作者：
Chen, Patricia;Lee, Fiona;Lim, Sandy
对工作的热情越来越受到重视，这反映在它在流行和实证话语中的无处不在。然而，我们对工作激情的定义缺乏科学共识，也缺乏一个可靠的、经过充分验证的、与不同职业的员工相关的工作激情衡量标准。在本文中，我们从现有的科学概念中确定并整合了关键主题，形成了一个精确的定义：对工作的激情意味着强烈地认同一个人感到有动力参与的工作，并从中获得积极的影响。我们开发了一个包含10个项目的工作激情（WP）量表，我们在多个研究中对858名成年人进行了测试，其中包括来自两种不同英语文化背景（即美国和新加坡）的工作成年人，以及来自不同职业的员工的两波研究。我们的研究结果表明，工作热情与许多有益的结果有关，包括更高的职业承诺、更低的工作倦怠、更少的工作与家庭冲突，以及更少的身体症状。我们的研究(1)提供了一个工作激情的综合定义，(2)提供了一个可靠的、跨文化测试的量表，(3)强调了对工作充满激情对工作结果的重要影响。
Passion for work has become increasingly valued, as reflected by its ubiquity in popular and empirical discourse. Yet we lack scientific consensus on the definition of work passion, and a reliable, well-validated measure of work passion that is relevant to workers across various vocations. In this paper, we identified and integrated key themes from existing scientific conceptualizations into a precise definition: Passion for work means to strongly identify with a line of work that one feels motivated to engage in and derives positive affect from doing. We developed a 10-item Work Passion (WP) scale, which we tested across multiple studies with a total of 858 adults, including working adults from two different English-speaking cultural backgrounds (i.e., United States and Singapore), and a two-wave study of employees from various vocations. Our results showed that work passion is associated with a host of beneficial outcomes, including greater career commitment, lower levels of job burnout, less work-home conflict, and fewer physical symptoms. Our research (1) provides an integrated definition of work passion, (2) offers a reliable, cross-culturally tested scale, and (3) highlights important implications for work outcomes associated with being passionate towards one's line of work.