Should Telework be Banned? An Investigation of the Relationship Between Leisure Crafting, Subjective Well-being, Perceived Work Productivity and Need Satisfaction for Teleworkers

Dijkstra, Josefien Roxane (2022) Should Telework be Banned? An Investigation of the Relationship Between Leisure Crafting, Subjective Well-being, Perceived Work Productivity and Need Satisfaction for Teleworkers. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.

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Abstract

Employees work more from home due the COVID19-pandemic (Chang et al., 2021). Abdel Hadi et al. (2021) found that especially daily leisure crafting during the COVID-19 pandemic promotes subjective well-being for teleworkers. The aim of this study is to gain a better understanding of how leisure crafting can increase subjective well-being and perceived work productivity for teleworkers. It was hypothesized that for teleworkers there is a positive association between leisure crafting and subjective well-being, in particular life satisfaction (H1), as well as between leisure crafting and perceived work productivity (H2). The association of H1 can be explained by need satisfaction (H3). The association of H2 can also be explained by need satisfaction (H4). A cross-sectional survey study is used to test these hypotheses. The participants (N = 67) are employees who work at least 20 hours per week, of which at least 18% from home. The hypotheses are not supported by this research, but the scores of teleworkers on life satisfaction, perceived work productivity, leisure crafting and need satisfaction are high. An explorative analysis shows a positive significant association between life satisfaction and need satisfaction. This research adds to the conceptualization of leisure crafting from Petrou and Bakker (2016). The high values on the variables suggest that telework may be beneficial for teleworkers. Keywords: Leisure Crafting, Subjective Well-being, Life Satisfaction, Perceived Work Productivity and Need Satisfaction

Item Type:	Thesis (Bachelor)
Supervisor name:	Yan, N.
Degree programme:	Psychology
Differentiation route:	None [Bachelor Psychology]
Date Deposited:	27 Jul 2022 08:02
Last Modified:	27 Jul 2022 08:02
URI:	http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1144

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