Günther, Max (2024) How needs based off job crafting may buffer against affective rumination over unfinished tasks. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Unfinished work tasks can cause workers to engage in affective rumination over them in their off-job time. Affective rumination in turn has been linked to having negative effects on workers' health. Thus, we wanted to investigate whether needs based off-job crafting (NBOJC) could act as a buffer between unfinished tasks and affective rumination. NBOJC describes the act of trying to create experiences that fulfill specific psychological needs during non-work time. Our goal was to test whether engagement in NBOJC would, when interacting with unfinished tasks, predict lower scores on affective rumination. In a cross-sectional study, we analyzed a sample of 199 primarily European workers from various occupations. While the link between unfinished tasks and affective rumination was once again confirmed, our results failed to establish an interaction effect between NBOJC and unfinished tasks that predicted affective rumination scores. Despite this, our study found a significant direct link between affective rumination and NBOJC. As the first study investigating the combination between these variables, we contribute to the growing body of research investigating the needs based crafting theory as well as which variables affect affective rumination over unfinished tasks during off-job time. Keywords: affective rumination, unfinished tasks, work, needs based crafting, off job behavior, needs satisfaction
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Weigelt, O. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jul 2024 07:12 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jul 2024 07:12 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3942 |
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