Staying Well and Engaged When Demands Are High: The Role of Psychological Detachment

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Sonnentag, Sabine; Binnewies, Carmen; Mojza, Eva J.
• 署名单位: University of Konstanz; Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0020032
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 965-976
• 关键词: job demands; EMOTIONAL EXHAUSTION; WORK ENGAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL DETACHMENT; RECOVERY

摘要

The authors of this study examined the relation between job demands and psychological detachment from work during off-job time (i.e., mentally switching off) with psychological well-being and work engagement. They hypothesized that high job demands and low levels of psychological detachment predict poor well-being and low work engagement. They proposed that psychological detachment buffers the negative impact of high job demands on well-being and work engagement. A longitudinal study ( 12-month time lag) with 309 human service employees showed that high job demands predicted emotional exhaustion, psychosomatic complaints, and low work engagement over time. Psychological detachment from work during off-job time predicted emotional exhaustion and buffered the relation between job demands and an increase in psychosomatic complaints and between job demands and a decrease in work engagement. The findings of this study suggest that psychological detachment from work during off-job time is an important factor that helps to protect employee well-being and work engagement.