Individual Differences Explain Psychosocial Work Environment: Untangling Personality from Workplace Questionnaires
(2024) PSYP01 20232Department of Psychology
- Abstract
- Psychosocial work conditions influence employee well-being. How individual differences play a role in this relationship is limited. An individual differences perspective posits that personality also contributes to an individual's perception of their environment. Thus, it is essential to investigate to what extent psychosocial work environments assessed with questionnaires reflect individual differences. The main findings of this thesis, drawn from a representative sample of the Danish working population (N = 3970) answering the Danish Psychosocial Questionnaire, support the individual difference perspective. Partial correlation analyses showed that neuroticism and extraversion accounted for approximately 60% of the variance between... (More)
- Psychosocial work conditions influence employee well-being. How individual differences play a role in this relationship is limited. An individual differences perspective posits that personality also contributes to an individual's perception of their environment. Thus, it is essential to investigate to what extent psychosocial work environments assessed with questionnaires reflect individual differences. The main findings of this thesis, drawn from a representative sample of the Danish working population (N = 3970) answering the Danish Psychosocial Questionnaire, support the individual difference perspective. Partial correlation analyses showed that neuroticism and extraversion accounted for approximately 60% of the variance between psychosocial conditions and work-related well-being outcomes. Factor analyses on construct level identified a common factor explaining up to 78% of the variance in well-being measurements, of which neuroticism and extraversion accounted for 36%. These findings show that psychosocial work questionnaires face challenges in assessing objective work environments. I argue that individual differences drive an individual's perception of their work environment, a factor often overlooked in research and practice. Therefore, it is recommended to consider individual differences in intervention studies when interpreting and improving the psychosocial work environment and work-related well-being. (Less)
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- author
- Craven, Lucas Hillebert LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- PSYP01 20232
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- psychosocial work environment, DPQ, work-related well-being, individual differences, personality, neuroticism, extraversion
- language
- English
- id
- 9147691
- date added to LUP
- 2024-02-02 15:46:31
- date last changed
- 2024-02-16 15:43:00
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