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All employees need job resources – Testing the Job Demands–Resources Theory among employees with either high or low working memory and fluid intelligence
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Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland (Institute of Psychology)
Data publikacji online: 28-09-2018
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Konrad Kulikowski
Jagiellonian University, Institute of Psychology, Ingardena 6, 30-060 Kraków,
Poland
Med Pr Work Health Saf. 2018;69(5):483-96
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Background: The Job Demands–Resources Theory (JD-R) is one of the most influential theoretical frameworks for explaining work
engagement. The JD-R postulates the existence of a health impairment process in which job demands lead to strain, and of a motivational
process in which job resources lead to work engagement. Although cognitive functions are among the most important characteristics
of employees related to job, still little is known about its moderating role in JD-R processes; hence in this study we make
a novel attempt to test the invariance of JD-R propositions among employees at different levels of cognitive functioning. Material and Methods: A group of 383 multioccupational employees completed a set of questionnaires measuring job resource: co-worker
support, supervisor support, performance feedback; job demands: emotional demands, occupational constraints, work-home interferences;
Utrecht Work Engagement Scale; Oldenburg Burnout Inventory along with 2 working memory and 3 fluid intelligence tests. Results: The multigroup invariance analysis with latent variables revealed that both the health impairment process and the motivational
process as postulated by JD-R are invariant across groups of employees with either high or low levels of fluid intelligence
and working memory capacity. Conclusions: This result provides the first piece of evidence for JD-R robustness among employees
at different levels of cognitive functioning. Our findings counterintuitively suggest that employees with high cognitive functioning
are not more resistant to job demands than employees with low cognitive functioning and that in order to be work-engaged they
need job resources, no less than their colleagues with low cognitive functioning. Med Pr 2018;69(5):483–496