Hüsing, Marile D. (2022) Blending onsite and offsite working: Does Extraversion moderate the effect of Blended Working on Anticipated Stress? Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Remote work and flexible working arrangements have been gaining popularity among organisations as well as individuals, have developed over the past centuries and are now as prevalent as ever. This flexibility specifically refers to time- and place independent work which gets enabled through new means of communication and technologies. It can have major impact on health outcomes but research is yet limited so our aim is to contribute to the existing research. In our study we want to examine whether flexible work leads to less anticipated stress in comparison to traditional work environments. Secondly, we hypothesise that personality traits such as extraversion may moderate the relationship between blended working and anticipated stress. We conducted a vignette study (N = 126) by presenting descriptions of two hypothetical companies, where we manipulated the type of working arrangement (flexible vs. traditional) and controlled for extraversion. Results showed that participants perceived less anticipated stress in flexible working arrangements. Furthermore, against our second hypothesis, we did not find extraversion to moderate the effect on this relationship. We conclude that flexible working arrangements do play a role in regard to work-related stress but extraversion does not moderate this relationship significantly. Limitations of our study and future directions are discussed. Keywords: working arrangements, flexible working, extraversion, work-related stress
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Wortler, B. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology (WOP) [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jan 2022 14:55 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jan 2022 14:55 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/90 |
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