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Teachers’ personal and collective work-identity predicts exhaustion and work motivation: Mediating roles of psychological job demands and resources
University of Gävle, Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, Department of Occupational Health Science and Psychology, 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 Occupational Health Science and Psychology, Psychology.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1386-5260
Röda Korsets Högskola.
University of Gävle, Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, Department of Occupational Health Science and Psychology, Psychology.
2020 (English)In: Frontiers in Psychology, E-ISSN 1664-1078, Vol. 11, article id 1538Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating roles of teachers’ psychological job demands and resources regarding personal and collective work-identity, respectively, and exhaustion and self-determined work motivation, respectively. A total of 2,905 members of a Swedish teacher’s trade union received an online questionnaire by e-mail; 768 individuals answered the questionnaire and so participated in this study. The data were obtained by self-reported measures (e.g., emotional and cognitive components of work-identity, psychological job demands and resources, exhaustion and work motivation) and analyzed by mediation regression analyses. The results showed that teachers’ psychological job demands (prosocial extra-role performance) mediated relationships between cognitive personal work-identity and emotional collective work-identity, respectively, and exhaustion. Teachers’ psychological job resources (educational inspiration) mediated relationships between emotional personal work-identity and cognitive collective work-identity, respectively, and self-determined work motivation. Thus, teachers might be disadvantaged by stronger personal work-related thinking and collective work-related feeling when related to exhaustion, to some extent accounted for by psychological job demands, and they might find advantage in stronger personal work-related feeling and collective work-related thinking when related to work motivation, to some extent accounted for by psychological job resources.

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Frontiers Media S.A., 2020. Vol. 11, article id 1538
Keywords [en]
exhaustion, personal and collective work-identity, psychological job demands, psychological job resources, self-determined work motivation
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Psychology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-33476DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01538ISI: 000566201700001PubMedID: 32922326Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85090009119OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-33476DiVA, id: diva2:1464793
Available from: 2020-09-08 Created: 2020-09-08 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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