When do you face a challenge? How unnecessary tasks block the challenging potential of time pressure and emotional demands.

Autoren

Michael Kronenwett
Thomas Rigotti

DOI

10.1037/ocp0000149

eISSN

1939-1307

ISSN

1076-8998

Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung

5

Zeitschrift

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

Sprache

en

Online publication date

2019

Paginierung

512 - 526

Status

Published online

Herausgeber

American Psychological Association (APA)

Herausgeber URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000149

Datum der Datenerfassung

2024

Titel

When do you face a challenge? How unnecessary tasks block the challenging potential of time pressure and emotional demands.

Ausgabe der Zeitschrift

24

Datenquelle: Crossref

Abstract

Job demands push employees to invest energy in certain behaviors to perform well, which can come with both costs and benefits to employees' well-being and motivation. Previous research presents contradictory results concerning whether specific job demands are a challenge (i.e., motivating) or a hindrance (i.e., only distressing). Building on the conservation of resources theory and the success resource model, we propose achievement experiences as an important work-related resource and indicator of whether job demands are challenging or hindering. We hypothesized that time pressure and emotional demands are positively related to achievement experiences (task-related and prosocial), contingent on the perception of unnecessary tasks, which in turn relate to work engagement and emotional exhaustion. Weekly diary data were gathered from 323 employees over the course of 4 weeks. Multilevel moderated mediation analyses revealed that time pressure and emotional demands unfold their challenging potential when unnecessary tasks are less frequent, and that these effects hold true for matching demands and achievement experiences (task-related and interpersonal dimensions). Overall, our study provides a resource-based theoretical rationale for the ambiguous results reported by various other studies, and it emphasizes the importance of subjective achievement experiences for employees' well-being. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

Addresses

Department of Psychology.

Autoren

Michael Kronenwett
Thomas Rigotti

DOI

10.1037/ocp0000149

eISSN

1939-1307

Externe Identifier

PubMed Identifier: 30945921

Open access

false

ISSN

1076-8998

Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung

5

Zeitschrift

Journal of occupational health psychology

Schlüsselwörter

Humans
Emotions
Motivation
Achievement
Job Satisfaction
Adolescent
Adult
Middle Aged
Workload
Germany
Female
Male
Multilevel Analysis
Young Adult
Surveys and Questionnaires
Occupational Stress

Sprache

eng

Medium

Print-Electronic

Online publication date

2019

Paginierung

512 - 526

Datum der Veröffentlichung

2019

Status

Published

Datum der Datenerfassung

2019

Titel

When do you face a challenge? How unnecessary tasks block the challenging potential of time pressure and emotional demands.

Sub types

Journal Article

Ausgabe der Zeitschrift

24

Datenquelle: Europe PubMed Central

Abstract

Job demands push employees to invest energy in certain behaviors to perform well, which can come with both costs and benefits to employees' well-being and motivation. Previous research presents contradictory results concerning whether specific job demands are a challenge (i.e., motivating) or a hindrance (i.e., only distressing). Building on the conservation of resources theory and the success resource model, we propose achievement experiences as an important work-related resource and indicator of whether job demands are challenging or hindering. We hypothesized that time pressure and emotional demands are positively related to achievement experiences (task-related and prosocial), contingent on the perception of unnecessary tasks, which in turn relate to work engagement and emotional exhaustion. Weekly diary data were gathered from 323 employees over the course of 4 weeks. Multilevel moderated mediation analyses revealed that time pressure and emotional demands unfold their challenging potential when unnecessary tasks are less frequent, and that these effects hold true for matching demands and achievement experiences (task-related and interpersonal dimensions). Overall, our study provides a resource-based theoretical rationale for the ambiguous results reported by various other studies, and it emphasizes the importance of subjective achievement experiences for employees' well-being. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

Autoren

Michael Kronenwett
Thomas Rigotti

Autoren-URL

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30945921

DOI

10.1037/ocp0000149

eISSN

1939-1307

Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung

5

Zeitschrift

J Occup Health Psychol

Schlüsselwörter

Achievement
Adolescent
Adult
Emotions
Female
Germany
Humans
Job Satisfaction
Male
Middle Aged
Motivation
Multilevel Analysis
Occupational Stress
Surveys and Questionnaires
Workload
Young Adult

Sprache

eng

Country

United States

Paginierung

512 - 526

PII

2019-18072-001

Datum der Veröffentlichung

2019

Status

Published

Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde

2020

Titel

When do you face a challenge? How unnecessary tasks block the challenging potential of time pressure and emotional demands.

Sub types

Journal Article

Ausgabe der Zeitschrift

24

Datenquelle: PubMed

Autoren

Michael Kronenwett
Thomas Rigotti

Zeitschrift

Journal of occupational health psychology

Datum der Veröffentlichung

2019

Herausgeber

Educational Publishing Foundation

Datum der Datenerfassung

2019

Titel

When do you face a challenge? How unnecessary tasks block the challenging potential of time pressure and emotional demands.

Sub types

article

Datenquelle: Manual

When do you face a challenge? How unnecessary tasks block the challenging potential of time pressure and emotional demands.

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