Jacobson, Andrew (2020) The engaged worker: Psychological flexibility as a personal resource in the Job Demands-Resources model. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to gain a greater insight into the psychological processes and personal resources that contribute to worker motivation and engagement within the Job Demands-Resources Model (JD-R), a model which seeks to explain the relationship between job resources and job demands. The model proposes that possessing adequate job resources will instigate a motivational process leading to higher engagement and organisational commitment, while higher job demands will instigate a health impairment process through exhaustion and burnout. Schaufeli and Taris (2014) noted that while the JD-R model reliably predicts the relationship between resources and engagement it does not adequately explain the underlying processes or why individual differences exist, raising questions about the type of personal resources which may influence the underlying processes. This study seeks to replicate the results of previous research into basic needs satisfaction and workplace engagement, and psychological flexibility and workplace engagement. It is hypothesised that psychological flexibility is a potential moderating variable on the relationship between basic needs satisfaction and engagement, which will be explored through a quantitative analysis on survey data. A cross-sectional survey of 227 participants recruited online through convenience sampling was used as the basis for exploring this hypothesis. The present study found that psychological flexibility was not a significant moderator, however it was found to be predictive of work engagement. Further research should explore how psychological flexibility interacts with the JD-R model in driving positive workplace outcomes.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - School of Psychology and Counselling (1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2021) |
| Supervisors: | Hoare Nancey |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Science (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Aug 2025 04:03 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Aug 2025 04:03 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | self-determination theory; job-demands resources model; psychological flexibility; workplace engagement, motivation |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52441 |
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