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Work Engagement: A Double-Edged Sword? A Study of the Relationship between Work Engagement and the Work-Home Interaction Using the ARK Research Platform Cover

Work Engagement: A Double-Edged Sword? A Study of the Relationship between Work Engagement and the Work-Home Interaction Using the ARK Research Platform

Open Access
|Jul 2017

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Mean, Standard Deviations, and Correlations among Study Variables (N = 4378).

VariablesMSD12345
1. Vigour4.731.03
2. Dedication4.921.05.74*
3. Absorption4.541.09.58*.71*
4. Work-home facilitation3.170.60.31*.37*.27*
5. Work-home conflict3.110.85–.32*–.26*–.12*–.21*
6. Gender.33*.10.00.06*.06*
7. Age.12*.08*.01–.02*–.07*

[i] *p < .05, two-tailed.

Note. Gender was dummy coded with 1 = females, 0 = males.

Table 2

Study Variables’ Internal Consistency and Convergent Validity.

VariablesLoadingD.G rhoAVE
1. Vigour0.920.79
UWES10.90
UWES20.91
UWES30.86
2. Dedication0.930.82
UWES40.93
UWES50.94
UWES60.85
3. Absorption0.900.75
UWES70.90
UWES80.88
UWES90.80
4. Work-home facilitation0.820.61
WHF10.78
WHF20.81
WHF40.74
5. Work-home conflict0.870.62
WHC10.72
WHC20.82
WHC30.79
WHC40.81
Table 3

Discriminant Validity Test of Study Variables.

Variables12345
1. Vigour0.79
2. Dedication0.570.82
3. Absorption0.380.570.75
4. Work-home facilitation0.120.150.080.61
5. Work-home conflict0.100.070.020.080.62

[i] Note. The squared correlations are below the diagonal, while the diagonal elements (in bold) are the AVE estimates.

Table 4

Main Effects of Exogenous Variables on Work-Home Facilitation and Conflict.

Bootstrap Confidence Intervals
VariablesValueLower bound (95%)Upper bound (95%)
1. Work-home facilitation
Vigour.117**0.0690.162
Dedication.309**0.2580.364
Absorption–.011–0.0560.035
Gender.079**0.0510.109
Age–.010–0.0360.019
2. Work-home conflict
Vigour–.287**–0.331–0.244
Dedication–.167**–0.221–0.118
Absorption.139**0.0970.182
Gender.130**0.1010.157
Age–.051**–0.080–0.022

[i] WHF: R2 = .166, WHC: R2 = .137.

Note. **p < .01, two-tailed.

Figure 1

Displays the significant effects of the PLS-SEM analysis. The gender variable was dummy coded with 0 = males and 1 = females.

**p < .01, two-tailed; ---p > .05, two-tailed.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/sjwop.20 | Journal eISSN: 2002-2867
Language: English
Page range: 4 - 4
Submitted on: Sep 7, 2016
Accepted on: Jun 8, 2017
Published on: Jul 17, 2017
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2017 Katrine Listau, Marit Christensen, Siw Tone Innstrand, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.