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Motivation and Justice at Work: The Role of Emotion and Cognition Components of Personal and Collective Work Identity
University of Gävle, Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, Department of Occupational and Public Health Sciences, Occupational health science. University of Gävle, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8707-1386
University of Gävle, Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, Department of Social Work and Psychology, Psychology.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1386-5260
2018 (English)In: Frontiers in Psychology, E-ISSN 1664-1078, Vol. 8, article id 2307Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of personal and collective work identity (including emotion and cognition components), in predicting work motivation (operationalized as work self-determined motivation) and organizational justice (operationalized as organizational pay justice). Digitized questionnaires were distributed bye-mail to 2905 members, teachers, of a Swedish trade union. A total of 768 individuals answered the questionnaire and by that participated in this study. Personal-compared to collective work identity was shown to positively associate with self-determined motivation accounted for by the emotion component of personal work identity. Collective compared to personal work identity was reported to positively associate with organizational pay justice accounted for by the cognition component of collective work identity. All this suggests that both work-related motivation and organizational justice might be, to some extent, accounted for by the psychological mechanisms of work identity and that, as predicted, different types of work identity, play different significant roles in predicting motivation and justice at work. More precisely, the emotion component of work identity was more pronounced in personal work-bonding relationships, and the cognitive component, of work identity in contrast, was more pronounced in collective work-bonding relationships.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Frontiers Media S.A., 2018. Vol. 8, article id 2307
Keywords [en]
work identity, personal identity, collective identity, work motivation, organizational justice
National Category
Applied Psychology
Research subject
Health-Promoting Work
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-26086DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02307ISI: 000419923000001PubMedID: 29379454Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85040868435OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-26086DiVA, id: diva2:1178998
Available from: 2018-01-31 Created: 2018-01-31 Last updated: 2022-09-16Bibliographically approved
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1. Feeling and Thinking at Work: Personal and Collective Work-Identity Predictions and Formations
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Feeling and Thinking at Work: Personal and Collective Work-Identity Predictions and Formations
2021 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The aim of the present thesis was to investigate emotional and cognitive personal and collective work-identity in predicting employees’ work-related motivation, organizational justice perceptions, general mental health and exhaustion; as well as if psychosocial working conditions might explain some of these relationships. Emotion and cognition in formation of personal and collective work-identity were also investigated. The sample consisted of 768 teachers responding to a questionnaire (Study I-IV) during spring 2016. The results showed that personal work-identity positively predicted self-determined work motivation, accounted for by the emotion component, and collective work-identity positively predicted organizational pay justice, accounted for by the cognition component (Study I). Emotional personal and cognitive collective work-identity positively predicted general mental health and negatively predicted exhaustion. Reversed relationships were found for cognitive personal and emotional collective work-identity (Study II). Teachers’ psychological job demands and resources mediated the relations between emotional and cognitive personal and collective work-identity, respectively, and exhaustion and self-determined work motivation, respectively (Study III). Emotional processes positively predicted cognitive processes, and the emotional profile showed effects on cognitive processes regarding personal work-identity formation, while cognitive processes positively predicted emotional processes, and the cognitive profile showed effects on emotional processes regarding collective work-identity formation (Study IV). In conclusion, emotional and cognitive personal and collective work-identity play significant but different roles in predicting work-related motivation, organizational pay justice as well as general mental health and exhaustion. Also, teachers’ psychosocial working conditions may contribute to explaining some of these associations. Finally, emotion and cognition may play different roles in the formation of personal and collective work-identity. 

Abstract [sv]

Syftet med föreliggande avhandlingen var att undersöka om emotionell och kognitiv personlig- och kollektiv arbetsidentitet predicerar anställdas arbetsrelaterade motivation, upplevd organisatorisk rättvisa, mental hälsa, utmattning och ifall psykosociala arbetsvillkor kan förklara en del av dessa samband, samt att undersöka emotioner och kognitioner och deras roll i formationen av personlig- och kollektiv arbetsidentitet. Urvalet bestod av 768 lärare som svarade på en enkät (Studie I-IV) under våren 2016. Resultaten visade att personlig arbetsidentitet positivt predicerade självbestämd arbetsmotivation, där den emotionella komponenten stod för detta samband, och att kollektiv arbetsidentitet positivt predicerade organisatorisk lönerättvisa, där den kognitiva komponenten stod för detta samband (Studie I). Emotionell personlig- och kognitiv kollektiv arbetsidentitet predicerade positivt allmän mental hälsa och negativt utmattning medan kognitiv personlig- och emotionell kollektiv arbetsidentitet uppvisade omvända relationer med dessa utfallsmått (Studie II). Arbetsrelaterade psykologiska krav- och resurser hos lärare stod för en medierande roll i förhållandet mellan emotionell och kognitiv personlig- respektive kollektiv arbetsidentitet och utmattningsproblem respektive självbestämda arbetsmotivation (Studie III). Emotionella processer predicerade kognitiva processer positivt, och emotionell profil visade effekter på kognitiva processer gällande formationen av personlig arbetsidentitets, och kognitiva processer predicerade positivt emotionella processer, och kognitiv profil visade effekter på emotionella processer gällande formationen av kollektiv arbetsidentitets (Studie IV). Sammanfattningsvis spelar emotionell och kognitiv personlig- och kollektiv arbetsidentitet betydande men olika roller gällande hur de predicerar arbetsrelaterad motivation, organisatorisk lönerättvisa samt allmän mental hälsa och utmattning. Dessutom kan lärares psykosociala arbetsvillkor delvis förklara en del av dessa samband. Slutligen verkar emotion och kognition spela olika roller i formationen av personlig- och kollektiv arbetsidentitet.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Gävle: Gävle University Press, 2021. p. 54
Series
Doctoral thesis ; 19
Keywords
personal and collective work-identity, emotion, cognition, work motivation, organizational pay justice, general mental health, exhaustion, teachers’ psy-chosocial working conditions, work-identity formation, personlig och kollektiv arbetsidentitet, emotion, kognition, arbetsmotivation, organisatorisk lönerättvisa, allmän mental hälsa, utmattning, lärares psykosociala arbetsvillkor, arbetsrelaterad identitetsformation
National Category
Psychology Other Health Sciences
Research subject
Health-Promoting Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35289 (URN)978-91-88145-62-8 (ISBN)978-91-88145-63-5 (ISBN)
Public defence
2021-04-29, 12:108, Kungsbäcksvägen 47, Gävle, 13:00 (Swedish)
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Available from: 2021-04-06 Created: 2021-02-15 Last updated: 2024-08-29Bibliographically approved

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