Does Perceived Wellness Influence Employee Work Engagement? Examining the Effects of Wellness in the Presence of Established Individual and Workplace Predictor Variables
Year: 2018
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Work engagement and employee wellness are important issues in human resource development.Guided by Conservation of Resources theory and the Job Demands-Resources Model, this study examined the effect perceived wellness had on teachers' reported levels of work engagement.While previous studies have examined discrete domains of wellness and their relationship to work engagement, no study had examined perceived, holistic wellness and its relationship to work engagement.As workplace wellness programs offer services that reflect components of holistic wellness, it is desirable to understand the variability holistic wellness can explain in work engagement.A cross-sectional survey was conducted to collect data from a sample of K-12 teachers.In addition to collecting data on perceived wellness and work engagement, additional data were collected for the control variables of psychological capital, supervisory support, and work autonomy.Tests for linear regression, hierarchal regression, multiple regression, and mediation were conducted to evaluate the research questions.Findings from the study suggested those higher in wellness have higher levels of work engagement, that wellness predicts unique variance in work engagement in the presence of established personal and job resource predictor variables, and that there is a partially mediated effect from wellness to work engagement through psychological capital.iii Table 1 Continued Variable JD-R Model Category Correlation (Avg.)Range Citation
Author: Dennis R. Priebe
Institution: The Ohio State University
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2893330988