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Tim Götz
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PublicationWork-family conflict and strain: Revisiting theory, direction of causality, and longitudinal dynamism( 2024)
;Mikko RönkköDoes work-family conflict (WFC) cause psychological strain or vice versa? How long do these effects take to unfold? What is the role of persistent WFC (or strain) levels in these processes? Prior research has left some of these questions open: Our systematic review reveals that WFC-strain studies have primarily used short (e.g., hours) or long (e.g., years) measurement lags, leaving mid-long lags underexplored. Moreover, while many work-family theories imply long-term effects, prior longitudinal research has often relied on cross-lagged panel models that assume effects to be solely within-person, not considering persistent between-person differences. We tested this assumption in five three-wave survey studies (N = 26,133) with varying lags (1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 6 months, 1 year) and found it to fail in all cases. Employing the random intercept crossed-lagged panel, a new approach in WFC research, our results indicate that the effects between WFC and strain (exhaustion, perceived stress, and affective rumination) depend primarily on longer-term WFC (or strain) levels. In contrast, short-term deviations from these levels (within-person effects) play a minor role. These findings suggest that the effects between WFC and strain may be more persistent than previously assumed, opening avenues for further theoretical and empirical development.Type: journal articleJournal: Journal of Applied PsychologyVolume: forthcoming -
PublicationAm I outdated? The role of strengths use support and friendship opportunities for coping with technological insecurityIn the digital era, the prevalent integration of new technologies in work processes gives rise to employees’ perceptions of technological insecurity. Such technology-induced strain poses new challenges to occupational health and safety and needs to be better understood in order to be prevented. Based on Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, we investigate to which extent the negative effect of technological insecurity on perceived health depends upon the availability of non-technology-related resources in the workplace. Specifically, we argue that employees who experience two key organizational resources, i.e. organizational support for strengths use and friendship opportunities, are better suited to cope with these modern forms of strain. We hypothesize that those resources reinforce each other in such way that employees’ coping capabilities rise and health issues decrease. For hypothesis testing, time-lagged hierarchical moderated regression analysis is conducted. The study sample consists of 8019 German employees. Results support our assumption that accumulating resources create an intensified buffering effect, which surpasses the additive buffering effects of individual resources. Under the condition of high support for strengths use and high friendship opportunities, technological insecurity does no longer show a negative relationship with employees’ time-lagged health. By using post-stratification weights, these results apply to 33.3 million employees in Germany having access to Information and Communication Technologies.Type: journal articleJournal: Computers in Human BehaviorVolume: 107Issue: June
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PublicationConditional Effects of Workplace Flexibility on Health Across Communication Classes - A LCA Analysis( 2020)In the 21st century, flexible work is one of the megatrends shaping how modern work takes place. Particularly prior research on the relationship between workplace flexibility and health has shown inconsistent findings. Following the assumption that not every workplace setting is suited for spatially dispersed working behavior, it is expected that this inconsistency may be due to unobserved heterogeneity in the workplace setting of employees. Specifically, the means of communication, as well as task interdependence characteristics, might explain some of this heterogeneity. Using latent class analyses, five communication classes, are identified based on participants responses regarding their use of several communication channels for information exchange with colleagues. Based on Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, it is theorized that there are different relations between workplace flexibility behavior and health, i.e. emotional exhaustion, for employees in different communication classes. Hence, the role of varying task interdependency levels is examined within those classes. Hence, we hypothesize that workplace flexibility can unfold positive effects on employees’ health especially for employees that are used to communicate virtually. Moreover, we follow that high task interdependency implies high communication requirements, and thus, workplace flexibility can only be beneficial when strong virtual communication is practiced. We follow an exploratory person-centered approach by applying latent class analyses with a secondary model (Asparouhov & Muthén, 2014) to explore the sample of 7’178 German employees. Results support the hypotheses and indicate that workplace flexibility is particularly beneficial for employees with high virtual communication and high task interdependencies. The factors are considered as crucial boundary conditions for examining relations of workplace flexibilityType: conference paper
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