Job Crafting as a Mediator between Work Engagement and Wellbeing Outcomes: A Time-Lagged Study

Enrique Robledo, Salvatore Zappalà and Gabriela Topa
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Enrique Robledo: International School of Doctorate, The National Distance Education University (UNED), 28040 Madrid, Spain
Salvatore Zappalà: Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Gabriela Topa: Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, The National Distance Education University (UNED), 28040 Madrid, Spain

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 8, 1-15

Abstract: This time-lagged study, using the framework of the JD-R model, tested the mediating role of job crafting measuring: at T1, work engagement, workaholism and emotional exhaustion; at T2, job crafting; and, at T3, flourishing, job performance and job satisfaction. Respondents were 443 Spanish employees working in different companies. Results show that job crafting mediates the relationship between work engagement and some of its outcomes (job performance and flourishing). In particular, the job crafting component ‘increasing structural job resources’ mediates the positive effect of work engagement on flourishing and job performance, and the job crafting component ‘increasing challenging demands’ mediates the positive effect of work engagement on job performance. No job crafting mediation is found between work engagement and job satisfaction.

Keywords: job crafting; job demands; job resources; work engagement; wellbeing; job performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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