Gyulvardar, Begyum (2022) Leisure at Work, Recovery, and Work Engagement: The Moderating Role of Playfulness Trait. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Leisure engagement is a way to replenish personal resources that can facilitate work engagement. Accordingly, previous research repeatedly showed that leisure engaged during off-job times can increase work engagement through experiences of recovery. However, due to technological advancement and vanishing boundaries between work and nonwork times a new type of leisure has emerged which is leisure engaged at work. Thus, the current study examined whether leisure engaged at work can also replenish resources that can increase work engagement through recovery experiences and whether the playfulness trait can moderate these aforementioned relationships. Based on the resource view of work engagement, I propose that leisure at work engagement is positively related with work engagement. Regarding COR theory and ER model, this positive relationship is hypothesized to mediated by recovery experiences. Further high levels of playfulness were previously found to obtain more personal resources from engaging in leisure activities. Thus, playfulness trait is hypothesized to strengthen the positive relationships between leisure at work participation and work engagement, as well as leisure at work participation and recovery experiences. I conducted a cross-sectional study (N = 113) with using an online questionnaire. Results have showed that leisure at work participation was insignificantly and negatively related with work engagement. Nevertheless, this negative relationship was buffered by playfulness trait. Further, leisure at work participation was found to be positively related to experiences of recovery. Overall, while engaging leisure at work could be detrimental to work engagement, it is nevertheless crucial for employees due to its beneficial effects on recovery. Keywords: leisure at work, recovery, work engagement, playfulness trait
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Yan, N. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology (WOP) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Nov 2022 10:30 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Nov 2022 10:30 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1465 |
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