Work-related Sense of Coherence and Longitudinal Relationships with Work Engagement and Job Satisfaction

Karoline Grødal; Siw Tone Innstrand; Gørill Haugan; Beate André

doi:10.16993/sjwop.73

Work-related Sense of Coherence and Longitudinal Relationships with Work Engagement and Job Satisfaction

Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

Volume 4 (2019): Issue 1

By: Karoline Grødal , Siw Tone Innstrand , Gørill Haugan and Beate André

Open Access

|Jul 2019

Abstract

The aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate the relationships between work-related sense of coherence (work-SOC) and the two well-being concepts of job satisfaction and work engagement. The study was conducted among nursing home employees, who answered a survey in two waves with a one-year interval. The results of structural equation modelling analyses showed that work-SOC was related to future work engagement but not job satisfaction, indicating that work-SOC contributes to active rather than passive states of well-being. Hypotheses of neither reversed nor reciprocal relationships were supported. The longitudinal relationship with work engagement suggests that work-SOC is an important factor to consider in workplace health promotion and management of employee health, and further research is therefore recommended to learn more about the nature and development of work-SOC.

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Submitted on: Oct 16, 2018

Accepted on: Jun 26, 2019

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Keywords:

work-related sense of coherence,

work engagement,

job satisfaction,

subjective well-being,

workplace health promotion

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