Passion at work and workers' evaluations of job demands and resources: a longitudinal study

Vallerand et al. developed a dualistic model of passion where two types of passion are proposed: harmonious and obsessive passion. They generally predict adaptive and less adaptive outcomes,respectively.In this study,we examine whether the type of passion that employees hold toward work influences their evaluations of job demandsandresources.Wehypothesizedthataharmoniouspassionforworkwould lead to positive evaluations of job control and support in the workplace as well as to low levels of work overload. In contrast, we hypothesized that an obsessive passion for work would lead to evaluations of work overload and to low levels of job control and support.The results of a longitudinal study supported our hypothesis.

[1]  Michael P. Leiter,et al.  Using the job demands-resources model to predict engagement: Analysing a conceptual model , 2010 .

[2]  J. Dutton,et al.  Crafting a Job: Revisioning Employees as Active Crafters of Their Work , 2001 .

[3]  Toon W. Taris,et al.  The relationships between work characteristics and mental health: examining normal, reversed and reciprocal relationships in a 4-wave study , 2004 .

[4]  Robert J. Vallerand,et al.  Passion and Gambling: On the Validation of the Gambling Passion Scale (GPS) , 2004, Journal of Gambling Studies.

[5]  Erich C. Dierdorff,et al.  Consensus in work role requirements: the influence of discrete occupational context on role expectations. , 2007, The Journal of applied psychology.

[6]  Jia Lin Xie,et al.  Individual differences in utilizing control to cope with job demands: effects on susceptibility to infectious disease. , 2001 .

[7]  Wayne Edward Oates,et al.  Confessions of a workaholic : the facts about work addiction , 1971 .

[8]  R. Vallerand.  On the Psychology of Passion: In Search of What Makes People's Lives Most Worth Living , 2008 .

[9]  Robert J. Vallerand,et al.  An Examination of the Relationship between Passion and Subjective Well-Being in Older Adults , 2008, International journal of aging & human development.

[10]  Robert Karasek,et al.  Job decision latitude and mental strain: Implications for job redesign , 1979 .

[11]  F. Rousseau,et al.  Le rôle de la passion dans le bien-être subjectif des aînés. , 2003 .

[12]  Robert J. Vallerand,et al.  On Passion for Life Activities , 2010 .

[13]  J. Spence,et al.  Workaholism: definition, measurement, and preliminary results. , 1992, Journal of personality assessment.

[14]  Peter Warr,et al.  Work, Happiness, and Unhappiness , 2007 .

[15]  J. Peiró,et al.  Self-efficacy specificity and burnout among information technology workers: An extension of the job demand-control model , 2002 .

[16]  Geneviève A. Mageau,et al.  Les passions de l'ame: on obsessive and harmonious passion. , 2003, Journal of personality and social psychology.

[17]  Geneviève A. Mageau,et al.  “Work is my passion”: The different affective, behavioural, and cognitive consequences of harmonious and obsessive passion toward work , 2011 .

[18]  A. Bakker,et al.  The job demands-resources model : state of the art , 2007 .

[19]  Frédéric Guay,et al.  Adjusting to job demands: The role of work self-determination and job control in predicting burnout , 2004 .

[20]  Geneviève A. Mageau,et al.  On the development of harmonious and obsessive passion: the role of autonomy support, activity specialization, and identification with the activity. , 2009, Journal of personality.

[21]  Geneviève A. Mageau,et al.  Passion and performance attainment in sport , 2008 .

[22]  Ken G. Smith,et al.  A Multidimensional Model of Venture Growth , 2001 .

[23]  Hans Bosma,et al.  Reviewing the effort-reward imbalance model: drawing up the balance of 45 empirical studies. , 2005, Social science & medicine.

[24]  Robert J. Vallerand,et al.  Harmonious and Obsessive Passion for the Internet: Their Associations With the Couple's Relationship1 , 2003 .

[25]  E. A. Locke,et al.  The relationship of entrepreneurial traits, skill, and motivation to subsequent venture growth. , 2004, The Journal of applied psychology.

[26]  A. Bakker,et al.  The Measurement of Engagement and Burnout: A Two Sample Confirmatory Factor Analytic Approach , 2002 .

[27]  E. Deci,et al.  The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior , 2000 .

[28]  G. Dagenais,et al.  Reliability and validity of the French version of the 18-item Karasek job content questionnaire , 1998 .

[29]  G. Porter.  Organizational impact of workaholism: suggestions for researching the negative outcomes of excessive work. , 1996, Journal of occupational health psychology.

[30]  Geneviève A. Mageau,et al.  Harmonious passion as an explanation of the relation between signature strengths’ use and well-being at work: Test of an intervention program , 2012 .

[31]  B. Kudielka,et al.  Overcommitment to work is associated with vital exhaustion , 2005, International archives of occupational and environmental health.

[32]  R. Vallerand,et al.  Passion for a cause, passion for a creed: on ideological passion, identity threat, and extremism. , 2012, Journal of personality.

[33]  Michael A. Campion,et al.  Social and Cognitive Sources of Potential Inaccuracy in Job Analysis , 1997 .

[34]  Y. Doi.  An epidemiologic review on occupational sleep research among Japanese workers. , 2005, Industrial health.

[35]  Robert J. Vallerand,et al.  Passion in sport: a look at determinants and affective experiences. , 2006 .

[36]  Geneviève A. Mageau,et al.  On the role of passion in performance. , 2007, Journal of personality.

[37]  W. Schaufeli,et al.  Workaholism, Burnout, and Work Engagement: Three of a Kind or Three Different Kinds of Employee Well‐being? , 2008 .

[38]  T. Taris,et al.  Learning and Strain Among Newcomers: A Three-Wave Study on the Effects of Job Demands and Job Control , 2004, The Journal of psychology.

[39]  A. Bakker,et al.  Burnout and Work Engagement among Teachers. , 2006 .

[40]  Rex B. Kline,et al.  Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling , 1998 .

[41]  H. Marsh,et al.  Assessing Goodness of Fit: Is Parsimony Always Desirable? , 1996 .

[42]  J. Halbesleben,et al.  Burnout in Organizational Life , 2004 .

[43]  J. Peiró,et al.  Linking organizational resources and work engagement to employee performance and customer loyalty: the mediation of service climate. , 2005, The Journal of applied psychology.

[44]  A. Bakker,et al.  The job demands-resources model of burnout. , 2001, The Journal of applied psychology.

[45]  R. Vallerand,et al.  On the role of passion for work in burnout: a process model. , 2010, Journal of personality.

[46]  A. Bakker,et al.  Job demands, job resources, and their relationship with burnout and engagement: a multi‐sample study , 2004 .

[47]  Robert J. Vallerand,et al.  When Passion Leads to Problematic Outcomes: A Look at Gambling , 2004, Journal of Gambling Studies.

[48]  R. Karasek.  Demand/Control model : a social, emotional, and physiological approach to stress risk and active behaviour development , 1998 .

[49]  Jacques Forest,et al.  Passion at work and burnout: A two-study test of the mediating role of flow experiences , 2012 .

[50]  J. Siegrist.  Adverse health effects of high-effort/low-reward conditions. , 1996, Journal of occupational health psychology.

[51]  Melissa S. Cardon.  Is passion contagious? The transference of entrepreneurial passion to employees , 2008 .

[52]  Robert J. Vallerand,et al.  Passion and Gambling: Investigating the Divergent Affective and Cognitive Consequences of Gambling1 , 2005 .

[53]  R. Vallerand,et al.  The role of passion for teaching in intrapersonal and interpersonal outcomes. , 2008 .

[54]  P. Bongers,et al.  "The very best of the millennium": longitudinal research and the demand-control-(support) model. , 2003, Journal of occupational health psychology.

[55]  R. Kline.  Principles and practice of structural equation modeling, 2nd ed. , 2005 .

[56]  J. Wincent,et al.  THE NATURE AND EXPERIENCE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL PASSION , 2009 .