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Money for Nothing? The Impact of Anti-Work Orientation on Work Motivation and Engagement Cover

Money for Nothing? The Impact of Anti-Work Orientation on Work Motivation and Engagement

Open Access
|Jul 2026

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Descriptive statistics and intercorrelations of the study variables.

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1. AWO
2. EXT0.19***
3. INJ0.04*0.44***
4. IDE–0.13***0.23***0.60***
5. INT–0.20***0.13***0.37***0.58***
6. AMOT0.33***0.22***–0.07***–0.31***–0.21***
7. WE–0.28***0.05**0.30***0.52***0.75***–0.29***
M (SD)3.74 (1.42)3.79 (1.29)4.54 (1.32)5.20 (1.41)4.69 (1.52)1.94 (1.33)3.55 (.86)

[i] Note: * p < 0.05. ** p < 0.01. *** p < 0.001. AWO = anti–work orientation; EXT = extrinsic regulation; INJ = introjected regulation; IDE = identified regulation; INT = intrinsic motivation; AMOT = amotivation; WE = work engagement.

Figure 1

Structural model depicting standardized estimates of the relationships between the latent variables.

Note: Indicators of latent variables and intercorrelations are omitted in the figure. *** Correlations significant at the p < 0.001 level. AWO = anti-work orientation; EXT = extrinsic regulation; INJ = introjected regulation; IDE = identified regulation; INT = intrinsic motivation; AMOT = amotivation; WE = work engagement.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/sjwop.461 | Journal eISSN: 2002-2867
Language: English
Page range: 10 - 10
Submitted on: Sep 18, 2025
Accepted on: May 27, 2026
Published on: Jul 3, 2026
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2026 Samantha Sinclair, Kristoffer Holm, published by Stockholm University Press
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