Student work-study boundary flexibility and relationships with burnout and study engagement
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Article Title | Student work-study boundary flexibility and relationships with burnout and study engagement |
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ERA Journal ID | 19322 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Creed, Peter A. (Author), Hood, Michelle (Author), Brough, Paula (Author), Bialocerkowski, Andrea (Author), Machin, M. Anthony (Author), Winterbotham, Sonya (Author) and Eastgate, Lindsay (Author) |
Journal Title | Journal of Education and Work |
Journal Citation | 35 (3), pp. 256-271 |
Number of Pages | 16 |
Year | 2022 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 1363-9080 |
1469-9435 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2022.2048250 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13639080.2022.2048250 |
Abstract | Relatively little is known about how working students manage their dual roles of work and study. To extend this research, we examined the direct and indirect relationships between boundary flexibility-ability (the appraised capacity to modify a boundary of one role to accommodate better the demands of another role) and boundary flexibility-willingness (the preparedness to do so) in both the work and study domains and outcomes of student burnout and study engagement in a sample of 851 working students (76% female; mean age 20.69 years). We tested the indirect paths via work-study conflict and facilitation. Both work and study flexibility-ability and flexibility-willingness, independently and in concert, were related to student burnout (46% variance explained) and study engagement (28% variance explained) as expected, and results supported work-study conflict and facilitation as underlying mechanisms in these relationships, with the indirect path via work-study conflict being more important than that via work-study facilitation. Thus, there are benefits for students when work and study boundaries are flexible and when students are willing to make use of this flexibility. |
Keywords | boundary flexibility-ability; boundary flexibility-willingness; work-study conflict; work-study facilitation; student burnout; study engagement |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 520104. Industrial and organisational psychology (incl. human factors) |
520102. Educational psychology | |
390303. Higher education | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | Griffith University |
School of Psychology and Counselling | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Funding source | Australian Research Council (ARC) Grant ID DP180100930 |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q72qx/student-work-study-boundary-flexibility-and-relationships-with-burnout-and-study-engagement
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