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. 2023 Feb 6:14:976874.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.976874. eCollection 2023.

Everything, everywhere, all at once: A study of polychronicity, work-school facilitation, and emotional exhaustion in working students

Allan Grogan  1 , Juliana Lilly  1
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Everything, everywhere, all at once: A study of polychronicity, work-school facilitation, and emotional exhaustion in working students

Allan Grogan et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

This study investigates how a preference for multitasking serves as a resource toward mitigating emotional exhaustion through the mediating role of work-school facilitation. Utilizing conservation of resources (COR) theory, we utilized a sample of 153 working students in a time-lagged study to examine the relationship between these variables. Results suggest that polychronicity serves as a valuable resource toward balancing the simultaneous needs of work and school, and ultimately, decreasing academic emotional exhaustion. The findings presented in this study further advance scholarship in this domain by highlighting our understanding of polychronicity as an individual difference variable in facilitating role balance within the school-work domain. Practical implications and limitations are discussed.

Keywords: conservation of resources theory; emotional exhaustion; mediation analysis; polychronicity; work-school facilitation; working students.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Mediation model outlining the relationship between polychronicity and emotional exhaustion. **p < 0.05.
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