Burnout and poor perceived health in flexible working time in Japanese employees. The role of self-endangering behavior in relation to workaholism, work engagement, and job stressors
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05.2022
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01A - Journal article
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Industrial Health
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Roudou Anzen Eisei Sougou Kenkyujo
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The study aim was to examine whether flexible working time was associated with burnout and poor perceived health in relation to the work-related psychological/behavioral factors of self-endangering work behavior (SEWB), workaholism, work engagement, and job stressors. We analyzed data obtained from an Internet survey of 600 full-time Japanese employees. We also proposed a causal model using path analysis to investigate the overall relationships of burnout and perceived health to psychological/behavioral factors. The results indicated that flexible working time was associated with adverse work-related consequences and factors such as increased burnout, working hours, SEWB, workaholism, and job demands, and with positive factors such as improvement of work engagement. The path analysis suggested that burnout was caused by workaholism both directly and via SEWB, and by low job decision latitude, and was reduced by work engagement. Similarly, it was observed that poor health was caused by workaholism via SEWB, and reduced by work engagement. Thus, SEWB is driven by workaholism and plays a key role in the adverse health consequences of flexible working time. For workers to benefit from flexible working time, it is important to improve workaholism, SEWB, and low job decision latitude, and to develop work engagement in the workplace.
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self-endangering work behavior, Workaholism, Work engagement, Job stress, Burnout, Perceived health, Flexible working time
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0019-8366
1880-8026
1880-8026
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English
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Published
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Yokoyama, K., Nakata, A., Kannari, Y., Nickel, F., Deci, N., Krause, A., & Dettmers, J. (2022). Burnout and poor perceived health in flexible working time in Japanese employees. The role of self-endangering behavior in relation to workaholism, work engagement, and job stressors. Industrial Health. https://doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.2022-0063