Overcommitment as a predictor of effort–reward imbalance: evidence from an 8-year follow-up study
Feldt, T., Hyvönen, K., Mäkikangas, A., Rantanen, J., Huhtala, M., & Kinnunen, U. (2016). Overcommitment as a predictor of effort–reward imbalance: evidence from an 8-year follow-up study. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health, 42(4), 309-319. https://doi.org/10.5271/sjweh.3575
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Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and HealthTekijät
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2016Tekijänoikeudet
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Objective The effort–reward imbalance (ERI) model includes the personal characteristic of overcommitment
(OC) and the job-related characteristics of effort, reward, and ERI, all of which are assumed to play a role in
an employee’s health and well-being at work. The aim of the present longitudinal study was to shed more light
on the dynamics of the ERI model by investigating the basic hypotheses related to the role of OC in the model,
ie, to establish whether an employee’s OC could be a risk factor for an increased experience of high effort, low
reward, and high ERI at work.
Methods The study was based on 5-wave, 8-year follow-up data collected among Finnish professionals in 2006
(T1, N=747), 2008 (T2, N=422), 2010 (T3, N=368), 2012 (T4, N=325), and 2014 (T5, N=273). The participants
were mostly male (85% at T1) and the majority of them worked in technical fields. OC, effort, reward, and ERI
were measured at each time point with the 23-item ERI scale.
Results Three cross-lagged structural equation models (SEM) were estimated and compared by using full
information maximum likelihood method: (i) OC predicted later experiences of effort, reward, and ERI (normal
causation model), (ii) effort, reward, and ERI predicted later OC (reversed causation model), and (iii) associations
in normal causal and reversed causal models were simultaneously valid (reciprocal causation model). The
results supported the normal causation model: strong OC predicted later experiences of high effort, low reward
and high ERI.
Conclusions High OC is a risk factor for an increased experience of job strain factors; that is, high effort, low
reward, and high ERI. Thus, OC is a risk factor not only for an employee’s well-being and health but also for an
increasing risk for perceiving adverse job strain factors in the working environment.
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