Ludy, Joshua (2022) Teleworkers` Leisure Crafting, Needs Satisfaction and Meaningful Work. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Telework has widely spread increasing the flexibility, job satisfaction and productivity of employees as well as leading to poor social interactions, conflict at home and emotional exhaustion. Leisure crafting was found to address those adverse outcomes which was established in the telework context for attenuating emotional exhaustion. Due to uncertainty on the labor market, there is a demand for meaningful work. A few studies show that leisure crafting increases meaning-making and meaningful activities enhance meaning in life, mediated by basic needs satisfaction. The present study is applied to teleworkers and adds to the small research body of crafting in the leisure domain that examines the interplay between occupation and well-being with regards to leisure crafting, needs satisfaction and meaningful work. A cross-sectional survey study (N = 69) was conducted. Neither leisure crafting was significantly correlated with meaningful work, nor did needs satisfaction mediate this relationship. However, there was a significant relationship between needs satisfaction and meaningful work which implies that this link within the Meaningful Activity and Life Meaning model may also be applicable in the work domain. Another implication is that meaningful work may be added as a distinct outcome variable within the identity-based integrative needs model of crafting. The effect of leisure crafting on meaning-making may be impeded due to the autonomy supportive environment of teleworkers. Future research may identify particular unfulfilled needs and match them with particular crafting efforts. Keywords: leisure crafting, telework, needs satisfaction, meaningful work
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Yan, N. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jul 2022 09:19 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jul 2022 09:19 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1154 |
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