What is it about?
Across two studies, we collected data from workers concerning their beliefs about work, their motivation, and their wellbeing. We found that those with high rigid, extreme, and illogical beliefs were more likely to have less self-determined motives for engaging with work, and were more likely to report poorer wellbeing.
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Why is it important?
The study tells us that work beliefs might be important antecedents to work engagement and wellbeing. We can help workers to adopt healthier work beliefs in order to maximise their health and productivity.
Perspectives
As a practitioner, this paper helps us to understand where we could focus interventions for worker wellbeing. We can apply programmes to help workers challenge their unhealthy work beliefs, and help them generate more healthy alternatives.
Martin Turner
Manchester Metropolitan University
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This page is a summary of: The role of irrational beliefs and motivation regulation in worker mental health and work engagement: A latent profile analysis, PLoS ONE, August 2022, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272987.
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